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The Pride is a
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professional wrestling
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, consisting of
The Street Profits The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand. They are three-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Raw, SmackD ...
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Angelo Dawkins The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand. They are three-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Raw, Smac ...
and
Montez Ford The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand. They are three-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Raw, Smac ...
) and
B-Fab Briana Brandy (born November 22, 1990) is an American musician and professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name B-Fab and is a member of The Street Profits and the Pride ...
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History

On the July 14, 2023 show of '' SmackDown'', a returning Lashley appeared in a backstage segment with
The Street Profits The Street Profits are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand. They are three-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the Raw, SmackD ...
to recruit them to form an alliance. On the August 4 show of ''SmackDown'', Lashley appeared to celebrate The Street Profits beating down
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and
The Brawling Brutes The Brawling Brutes is a professional wrestling stable consisting of Sheamus, who serves as its leader, Ridge Holland, Butch, and Drew McIntyre. They currently perform in WWE on the SmackDown brand. Concept the first concept of the Brutes wa ...
'
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and
Ridge Holland Luke Menzies (born 29 May 1988) is an English professional wrestler and former professional rugby league footballer. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Ridge Holland. He spent the major ...
, turning all three men into
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. Lashley and The Street Profits teamed up for a match for the first time to face the Latino World Order (LWO) in a
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at Fastlane. A day before the event on ''SmackDown'', the trio took out the LWO's
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and Joaquin Wilde to leave the LWO a man short for the match. At the event, a returning Carlito teamed up with Rey Mysterio and
Santos Escobar Jorge Luis Alcantar Bolly (born April 30, 1984), is a Mexican second-generation ''luchador'' (professional wrestler). He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Santos Escobar. Before his WWE ca ...
for the LWO to win the match. On the November 24 show of ''SmackDown'', The Street Profits failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship from The Judgment Day ( Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) after interference from Rhea Ripley, turning face once again. On the December 8 show of ''SmackDown'', Lashley beat Karrion Kross to advance in the United States Championship #1 Contender Tournament. Lashley would face Santos Escobar in the second round of the tournament, but would lose due to an interference from
Angel Garza Humberto Garza Solano (born September 23, 1992) is a Mexican professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Angel (shortened from his previous ring name Angel Garza). He is a th ...
&
Humberto Carrillo Humberto Garza Carrillo (born October 20, 1995) is a Mexican professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Humberto. He previously worked under the ring name Último Ninja whi ...
helping Santos to win the match and advance to the finals of the tournament. Lashley would turn face on next week's show of ''SmackDown'': New Year's Revolution after being attacked by Karrion Kross and the returning
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with the latter group forming The Final Testament team. In January 2024 at Royal Rumble, Lashley entered the men's Royal Rumble match at n.º 11, eliminating Carlito and Kross before being eliminated by Kross, after which a brawl between both groups began. Lashley then took part in the men's
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at the titular event on February 24, but was eliminated by Drew McIntyre. The Pride then faced off against The Final Testament in a Philadelphia street fight at
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on Night 2, in which they would emerge victorious. On the April 19 episode of ''SmackDown'' Street Profits won a fatal-4 way tag team match to face A-Town Down Under (
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&
Grayson Waller Matthew Farrelly (born 21 March 1990) is an Australian professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Grayson Waller. Before signing to WWE, he previously wrestled on the independent ...
) for the newly renamed
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but they failed to win the titles 2 weeks later. Lashley was inserted into the King of the Ring tournament but was later pulled out due to injury and was replaced by Dawkins. On the May 10 episode of ''SmackDown'', Angelo Dawkins lost the first round qualifiers to The Bloodline's Tama Tonga. On August 16, Lashley's profile on WWE's roster page was moved to the alumni section, ending his tenure with WWE and The Pride.


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