![]() They competed in six-person mixed tag team, singles and tag team matches. ![]() Later, Torres and Cryme Tyme got into a feud with The Hart Dynasty. Eve Torres later became their valet, accompanying them to the ring and appearing in backstage segments with them. On April 15, 2009, Cryme Tyme were drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 supplemental draft. ![]() JTG and Gaspard returned to WWE under the Cryme Tyme name on the March 31 episode of Raw in 2008, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch. Cryme Tyme began working with John Cena on the June 30 episode of Raw when they helped him interfere during John "Bradshaw" Layfield's match. The following week on Raw, they again appeared together in a segment when they vandalized JBL's limo. After a live event match, Cena confirmed that they had created a faction and announced that it was called CTC or "Cryme Tyme Cenation". Separately, Cryme Tyme started a feud with then-World Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, stealing their championship belts for a time, then losing a title match to them at Unforgiven. The CTC quietly separated after Cena's injury. This led to a feud with then- World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, but both JTG and Gaspard were released from their WWE contracts on September 2, 2007, before the feud was resolved. The duo returned to Raw in July 2007 with a new gimmick, which saw them taking items and auctioning them off to the crowd. Around the same time, they began a feud with The World's Greatest Tag Team ( Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas), during which Benjamin began to express disgust with Cryme Tyme's antics, calling them offensive and harmful to the black community. During the storyline, Haas started "acting black", but after the World's Greatest Tag Team handed Cryme Tyme their first loss on the January 29, 2007, episode of Raw, the program was dropped, with Cryme Tyme appearing mainly on Raw's sister show Heat, only appearing on Raw in backstage segments. On November 5, the team made their pay-per-view debut at Cyber Sunday, defeating Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, The Highlanders ( Rory and Robbie McAllister), and Charlie Haas and Viscera in a four team tornado tag team match. After arriving on Raw, they were depicted covertly stealing things, such as Jerry Lawler's laptop, and a plasma screen TV, during interviews and while celebrating wins with the announce team. The vignettes, which aired weekly, featured Cryme Tyme robbing people while an announcer dubbed their actions "training exercises" designed to work on things like "speed", "agility", "drive", "endurance", and "intensity". Cryme Tyme wrestled as fan favorites at live events and in dark matches, finally making their television debut, defeating Johnny and Mikey of The Spirit Squad on the October 16 episode of Raw. ![]() On the September 4 episode of Raw, vignettes began airing to promote the debut of the team, showing them "training" for their pending debut on the show. In late 2006, WWE debuted Cryme Tyme ( Shad Gaspard and JTG) on the main Raw brand roster, starting by having them work live events and dark matches.
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