Mean Street Posse

Stable
Members	Pete Gas[1] Rodney[1] Joey Abs[1]
Name(s)	Mean Street Posse[1]
Debut	1999[1]
Disbanded	2000[1]
Promotions	WWF[1]

The Mean Street Posse was a villainous professional wrestling faction that formerly wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation. The faction consisted of Pete Gas, Rodney, and Joey Abs. The Posse's gimmick was that they were from an upper class background, which was emphasized by their attire of sweater vests and dress pants.

History

Gas and Rodney were legitimate school friends of Shane McMahon, whereas Joey Abs was already a professional wrestler who was brought in to be the 'worker' of the group.^[2] The Posse was closely allied with Shane McMahon, often helping him defend the European Championship throughout early 1999. They also attempted to help Shane defeat Test at SummerSlam, but were unsuccessful. After their alliance with Shane was minimized, the Posse were relegated to being enhancement talents, losing to teams such as the Dudley Boyz, The Holly Cousins and Too Cool.^[3] Despite this, Gas would manage to briefly hold the Hardcore Championship. At WrestleMania 2000, all three members of the Posse would briefly win the Hardcore Title.^[2] They then began a short-lived program with Edge and Christian, in which the Posse was hired to steal the Tag Team Championship from the Hardy Boyz. On the October 8, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat, Gas and Rodney faced the Hardy Boyz for the title, but they were unsuccessful.^[3] Abs was then involved in a short-lived storyline with Stephanie McMahon, where it was revealed that they were ex-lovers.^[2]

Split and aftermath

In 2000, the entire Posse was moved to Memphis Championship Wrestling, a developmental territory of the WWF.^[2] While in MCW, the Posse managed to win several titles before being released from their contracts in June 2001.^[2] On December 10, 2007, Raw held its 15th-anniversary special and Gas represented the Posse in a 15th Anniversary Battle Royal, where he was subsequently eliminated by Bart Gunn.

In 2009, WWE.com interviewed the Posse for as a part of the website's "Where are They Now?" feature.^[2] All three members have since retired from wrestling, as Gas now works for W.B. Mason, an office supply company, Rodney owns his own landscape management company in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and Abs works in his family's car repair shop.^[2]

Note

at Wrestlemania 15, there were two other members of The Mean Street Posse "Billy Pearo/Piro? a/k/a Billy P and Willie Green" that didn't become WWE superstars, they were in the crowd with Rodney and Pete, they also helped Rodney, Pete, and Shane jump X-Pac in the parking lot on a Raw event before WrestleMania 15, also before WrestleMania 15, The Posse talk about Shane in interviews, Willie Green does his promo in the dark where we can't see his face

Championships and accomplishments

• Memphis Championship Wrestling
  • MCW Hardcore Championship (1 time) – Abs^[4]
  • MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship (2 times) – Abs^[5]
  • MCW Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) – Abs and Rodney^[5][6]

• World Wrestling Federation
  • WWF Hardcore Championship (4 times)¹ – Gas (2), Rodney (1) and Abs (1)^[2]

¹Due to inconsistent reports from WWE, Gas' additional reign and both Abs' and Rodney's during WrestleMania 2000 are considered unofficial as they are not featured in their online history for the title, but are listed in the title's history in the "WWE Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to World Wrestling Entertainment" published in 2009.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Cagematch profile". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=29&nr=179. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Mean Street Posse interviewed on WWE.com". http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wherearetheynow/meanstreetposse. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Mean Street Posse's match listing". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=29&nr=179&view=matches#matches. 
4. ^ "MCW Hardcore Championship history". Wrestling Titles. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/memphis/mcw/mcw-hc.html. Retrieved 2008-02-02. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Abs' title history". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=724&view=erfolge#erfolge. 
6. ^ "Rodney's title history". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=2370&view=erfolge#erfolge. 

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• Where are they now? on WWE.com