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Kenneth Crawford (born May 31, 1990) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Montez Ford. He is one-half of The Street Profits with Angelo Dawkins, where they are two-time WWE Tag Team Champions, one-time World Tag Team Champions, and one-time NXT Tag Team Champions.
On the May 15, 2019 episode of NXT, The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) vacated the NXT Tag Team Championship and were challenged by The Street Profits, but the match ended in a disqualification after interference from The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake and Steve Maclin) and Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch. A four-way tag team ladder match for the NXT Tag Team Championship was scheduled for on June 1, where the Street Profits won the titles for the first time. They retained their titles against the Forgotten Sons on the June 26 episode of NXT, Lorcan and Burch on the July 10 episode of NXT and The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) at on August 10. On the August 28 episode of NXT, they lost their titles to the Undisputed Era, ending their reign at 88 days, and failed to regain the titles on the October 2 episode of NXT.
Starting on the July 1 episode of WWE Raw, the Street Profits started appearing on the show in various backstage segments, until they were drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2019 WWE draft. On the October 21 episode of Raw, The Street Profits defeated The O.C. (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) in their debut match. At Super ShowDown on February 27, they faced Seth Rollins and Buddy Matthews for the Raw Tag Team Championship in a losing effort. On the March 2 episode of Raw, the Street Profits won a Last Chance match with the help of Kevin Owens to win the championship. They successfully defended their titles against Rollins and Murphy on March 8 at Elimination Chamber and Angel Garza and Austin Theory on Night 2 of WrestleMania 36 on April 6. At Backlash on June 14, The Street Profits were set to defend their titles the Viking Raiders, but the match did not start due to them brawling outside the building, being accosted by Akira Tozawa and a group of and ending up in a dumpster. On the June 22 episode of Raw, they successfully defended their titles against the Viking Raiders.
As part of the 2020 Draft in October, The Street Profits were drafted to the SmackDown brand. The Street Profits would trade the Raw Tag Team Championship to The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods), who had just been drafted to the Raw brand, in exchange for the latter team's SmackDown Tag Team Championship, making them the second team to acquire the WWE Tag Team Triple Crown. On the December 18 episode of WWE SmackDown, the Street Profits successfully defended the titles against Roode and Ziggler, but lost them in a rematch on the January 8, 2021 episode of SmackDown, ending their reign at 88 days. On the June 11 episode of SmackDown, Ford suffered a partial rib fracture after being attacked by Otis, which was done to write him off television so he could undergo voluntary surgery.
In September, the Street Profits began a feud with SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos, but failed to win their titles at Extreme Rules on September 26 and in a Street Fight on the October 15 episode of SmackDown. They faced RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Matt Riddle) for the Raw Tag Team Championship at Day 1 on January 1, 2022 and on Night 2 of WrestleMania 38 on April 3 in a triple threat match also involving Alpha Academy (Chad Gable and Otis), but were unsuccessful. The Street Profits then failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship from the Usos at Money in the Bank on July 2 and at SummerSlam on July 30 with Jeff Jarrett as the special guest referee.
On the February 6, 2023 episode of Raw, Ford defeated Elias to qualify for an Elimination Chamber match for the WWE United States Championship at the titular event on February 18, where he eliminated Bronson Reed and Damian Priest before being eliminated by eventual winner Austin Theory. On Night 1 of WrestleMania 39 on April 1, the Street Profits won the men's WrestleMania Showcase fatal four-way tag team match. Ford faced LA Knight in a Money in the Bank qualifying match on the June 2 episode of SmackDown, but was defeated.
in August 2024]]On the July 14 episode of SmackDown, a returning Bobby Lashley appeared in a backstage segment with The Street Profits to recruit them to form an alliance. On the August 4 episode of SmackDown, they interrupted a match between Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson and The Brawling Brutes' Pete Dunne and Ridge Holland by beating them down, turning heel for the first time on the main roster. The Street Profits and Lashley teamed up for the first time to face the Latino World Order (LWO) in a six-man tag team match at Fastlane. A day before the event on SmackDown, the trio took out the LWO's Raul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde to leave them a man short for the match. At the event on October 7, they lost to Rey Mysterio, Santos Escobar and a returning Carlito. On the November 24 episode of SmackDown, The Street Profits failed to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship from The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Priest) after interference from Rhea Ripley, turning face once again. In early 2024, the Street Profits and Lashley feuded with The Final Testament (Karrion Kross and the returning Authors of Pain) and allied with B-Fab as The Pride. On Night 2 of WrestleMania XL on April 7, The Pride defeated The Final Testament in a Philadelphia Street Fight. On the April 19 episode of SmackDown, Street Profits won a fatal-four way tag team match to face A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) for the newly renamed WWE Tag Team Championship, but failed to win the titles two weeks later. On August 16, The Pride quietly disbanded due to Lashley leaving WWE.
At Royal Rumble on February 1, 2025, the Street Profits (without B-Fab) cost Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) their opportunity at regaining the WWE Tag Team Championship by attacking them and allowing #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) to retain the titles, who they also attacked during their celebration. The Street Profits defeated #DIY on the March 14 episode of SmackDown to win the WWE Tag Team Championship for the second time. On the April 25 episode of SmackDown, they successfully defended the titles against #DIY and Motor City Machine Guns in a tables, ladders, and chairs match.
On the July 11, 2025 episode of SmackDown! Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins lost the WWE Tag Team Championships to The Wyatt Sick6 (Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy).
As Montez Ford, he made his video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K19, and has since appeared in WWE 2K20, WWE 2K Battlegrounds, WWE 2K22, WWE 2K23, WWE 2K24 and WWE 2K25.
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On June 9, 2017, it was announced that he was engaged to fellow professional wrestler Bianca Nicole Blair, better known as Bianca Belair. The couple married on June 23, 2018.
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