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Shad Gaspard  | |
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| Born | January 11, 1981 Brooklyn, New York, New York  |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | H.N.I.C. [1] (Head Nigga In Charge) The/Da Beast Shad Gaspard |
| Billed height | 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) |
| Billed weight | 285 lb (129 kg) |
| Billed from | Brooklyn |
| Trained by | OVW Staff |
| Debut | 2003 |
Shad Omar Gaspard (born January 11, 1981) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on the RAW brand as one half of the tag team Cryme Tyme with partner JTG.
Career
Shad Gaspard was extensively involved in sports in high school, specializing in wrestling, track and basketball. He attended college, where he continued to play basketball. Leaving college, he became a successful No Holds Barred fighter (35-7) and amateur boxer (57-26), and also worked as a bodyguard for several rappers and actors, such as Puff Daddy, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Mike Tyson.[2]
Professional wrestling
Gaspard then decided to become a professional wrestler. He made the finals of Tough Enough II, but was replaced after failing a physical. He kept trying to become a professional wrestler. Shortly after his 21st birthday he attended Tom Prichard's first OVWtraining camp where Tank Toland, Elijah Burke, and he were offered opportunities to return and work for OVW, ultimately resulting in all of them getting developmental contracts and spots on various WWE televised programs. He debuted in OVW in 2003 as Da Beast, eventually joining Bolin Services, a heel stable led by manager Kenny Bolin. Gaspard acted as Bolin's enforcer, and in February 2004 was placed into a tag team with Carlos Colón.
After Colón left OVW in October 2004 Gaspard left Bolin Services and formed a new tag team with Osama. They were managed by Mo' Green. In June 2005, he was signed to a developmental contract by World Wrestling Entertainment.
Gaspard later began wrestling under his real name. On the May 24, 2006 OVW television taping, Gaspard and his new partner, The Neighborhoodie, defeated Roadkill and Kasey James to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. They held the titles until July 28, 2006, when they lost their title to CM Punk and Seth Skyfire.
On the September 4, 2006 edition of RAW, promos started airing hyping the debut of Gaspard and Neighborhoodie (now dubbed JTG) as Cryme Tyme[3]. They made their televised debut on the October 16 RAW and then their pay-per-view debut at November's Cyber Sunday.
Currently, both JTG and Shad are usually performing on RAW's sister show Heat.
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature maneuvers