| Team Pacman | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Adam "Pacman" Jones Ron "The Truth" Killings Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed |
| Heights | Jones: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Killings: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Creed: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Combined weight |
617 lb (280 kg) |
| Debut | August 2007 |
| Disbanded | October 2007 |
| Promotions | TNA |
Team Pacman was a heel professional wrestling tag team in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. The team, originally consisting of National Football League player Adam "Pacman" Jones and his partner Ron "The Truth" Killings, held the TNA World Tag Team Championship once, but when Jones' football team refused him permission to take part in in-ring action Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed was added to substitute for him for its defense.
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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.[1] In interviews with TNA Vice President Jeff Jarrett, Jones indicated that he intended to wrestle, primarily as part of a tag team.[2][3] In response the Tennessee Titans organization were granted a restraining order barring him from working with the company at all,[4] 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.[5]
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.[6][7] 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 TNA World Tag Team Championship.[8] Accepting, the newly minted "Team Pacman" spent the lead up to No Surrender attacking wrestlers and spray painting "autographs" reading "PAC" on their backs.[9][10] 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.[11][12]
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.[13] 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.[14] At Bound for Glory, with Jones not being allowed to wrestle a full match, Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed was brought in as the third member of Team Pacman for the title defense (under the "Freebird Rule") against A.J. Styles and Tomko, while Jones stood outside and watched. During the match Jones attempted to interfere, throwing cash at referee Earl Hebner, distracting him long enough to miss a pin for his team and allowing Styles and Tomko to win the match and take the title.[15]
After the loss Jones all but disappeared from TNA television, with his contract expiring and going un-renewed October 15.[16] Killings also disappeared from television and would later be released at the end of the year. Creed, however, was given a contract with the company, which he was presented with at an NWA Anarchy show.[17]
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