Team Pacman

Team Pacman was a professional wrestling tag team formerly in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. The team, consisting of National Football League player Adam Jones and Ron Killings, held the promotion's World Tag Team Championship once, but when Jones' football team refused him permission to perform in the ring, Rasheed Lucius Creed was added as a third man for the team's title defense.

History[]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007)[]

Adam Jones entering the Impact Zone

On August 6, 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) confirmed through their website that they had signed a deal with Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones.^[2] In interviews with TNA Vice President Jeff Jarrett, Jones indicated that he intended to wrestle, primarily as part of a tag team.^[3][4] In response the Tennessee Titans organization were granted a restraining order barring him from working with the company at all,^[5] prompting the two companies to negotiate a compromise stating that Jones wouldn't be allowed to "touch or be touched, use or be hit by any object or anything else that could injure him", but he would be allowed to appear with the company in a non-physical role.^[6]

Ron Killings, the other half of Team Pacman

Jones made his first appearance at Hard Justice later that month, taking part in an interview with Mike Tenay explaining that he chose professional wrestling to prove that he could be "the ultimate team player", and TNA specifically because both he and it were "trend setters". They were interrupted, however, by Ron Killings who proceeded to run down and "threaten" Jones until Jones challenged him to enter the ring and fight, only to be kept separated by (kayfabe) security guards. In later backstage segments Jones was shown laid out and bleeding, then being taken away in an ambulance.^[7][8] At the next weeks Impact!, Jones challenged Killings, only to have him appear and profess respect for him—even suggesting forming a team to vie for the World Tag Team Championship.^[9] Accepting, the newly minted "Team Pacman" spent the lead up to No Surrender attacking wrestlers and spray painting "autographs" reading "PAC" on their backs.^[10][11] At the show, Team Pacman took the TNA World Tag Team Championship from the champions, Kurt Angle and Sting, with Jones making the actual pin, though he was not otherwise physically involved in the match—refusing to tag in at times and literally running away at others.^[12][13]

Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed was brought in as the third man of Team Pacman for their Tag Team title defense at Bound for Glory

Going into Bound for Glory—held in his hometown of Atlanta—TNA announced that Jones purchased 1,500 tickets to the show with the intention of donating them to the Fulton County School District.^[14] They also heavily promoted his "in-ring" appearance for the first ever two hour episode of Impact! on October 4, both in television commercials and on their website, but his portion of Team Pacman's match against Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) consisted of him mostly avoiding physical contact again—leapfrogging an attempted tackle and catching then throwing a football at Brother Ray, ducking a clothesline, and holding a downed opponents legs for a double team maneuver—before the Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. and Kip James) interfered and the match ended in a disqualification.^[15] At Bound for Glory, with Jones not being allowed to wrestle a full match, Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed was brought in as a substitute for Jones for the title defense (under the "Freebird Rule") against A.J. Styles and Tomko, while Jones stood outside and watched. Jones attempted to interfere during the match by throwing cash at referee Earl Hebner, which inadvertently distracted Hebner long enough to miss a pin for Team Pacman and allow Styles and Tomko to win the match and the title.^[16]

After the loss Jones all but disappeared from TNA television, with his contract expiring and being passed up for renewal October 15.^{[citation needed]} Killings also left TNA, rejoining WWE under the ring-name "R-Truth". Creed, however, was given a contract with TNA, which he was presented with at an NWA Anarchy show.^[17] He would later also leave the company and sign a developmental deal with WWE, changing his ring-name to "Xavier Woods".

Championships and accomplishments[]

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Jones and Killings^[18]

See also[]

• 3Live Kru

References[]

External links[]

• Ron Killings at IMDb
• Ron Killings at MySpace
• Pacman Jones' NFL Player Profile
• Pacman Jones at IMDb
• Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed at MySpace