| Team Pacman | |
|---|---|
 Adam "Pacman" Jones, the namesake of the tag team | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Ron "The Truth" Killings[1] Adam "Pacman" Jones Rasheed Lucius Creed |
| Name | Team Pacman |
| Billed heights | Jones: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Killings: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Creed: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 680 lb (310 kg) |
| Debut | August 16, 2007 |
| Disbanded | October 14, 2007 |
| Years active | 2007 |
Team Pacman was aprofessional wrestlingtag team, that was active in theTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion from August to October 2007. The team, consisting ofNational Football League playerAdam Jones andRon Killings, held the promotion'sWorld Tag Team Championshiponce, but whenJones's 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.
On August 6, 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) confirmed through their website that they had signed a deal withTennessee TitanscornerbackAdam "Pacman" Jones.[2] In interviews with TNA Vice PresidentJeff Jarrett, Jones indicated that he intended to wrestle, primarily as part of atag team.[3][4] In response theTennessee Titans organization were granted arestraining 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 anyobject or anything else that could injure him", but he would be allowed to appear with the company in a non-physical role.[6]
Jones made his first appearance atHard Justice later that month, taking part in aninterview withMike 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, byRon 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 weeksImpact!, Jones challenged Killings, only to have him appear and profess respect for him—even suggesting forming a team to vie for theWorld Tag Team Championship.[9] Accepting, the newly minted "Team Pacman" spent the lead up toNo 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 andSting, with Jones making the actualpin, though he was not otherwise physically involved in the match—refusing to tag in at times and literally running away at others.[12][13]
Going intoBound 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 theFulton County School District.[14] They also heavily promoted his "in-ring" appearance for the first ever two hour episode ofImpact! on October 4, both in television commercials and on their website, but his portion of Team Pacman's match againstTeam 3D (Brother Ray andBrother Devon) consisted of him mostly avoiding physical contact again—leapfrogging an attempted tackle and catching then throwing a football at Brother Ray, ducking aclothesline, and holding a downed opponents legs for adouble team maneuver—before theVoodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. andKip 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") againstA.J. Styles and Tomko, while Jones stood outside and watched. Jones attempted to interfere during the match by throwing cash at refereeEarl 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 on October 15. Jones would return to the promotion six years later, now known as Impact Wrestling, on the November 7, 2013 episode ofImpact!, which was held inCincinnati. Jones andBengals practice squad member, defensive endDeQuin Evans, were sitting in the front row and got into an altercation withBad Influence (Christopher Daniels andKazarian), who pushed both players, leading them to jump the guardrail and bodyslam both wrestlers in the ring.[17]
Killings also left TNA, rejoining WWE under the ring name R-Truth. He has mostly been used as a comedic character, but has won theWWE United States Championship twice and theWWE Tag Team Championship once. He has also teamed and been allied withThe Miz,Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods,Goldust andCarmella.
Creed, however, was given a contract with TNA, which he was presented with at an NWA Anarchy show.[18] He later teamed withJay Lethal, with whom he won theWorld Tag Team Championship. He was released in 2010, and signed a developmental deal with WWE, changing his ring name to Xavier Woods. After stints with WWE's developmental territoryFlorida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and its third brandNXT, Woods was called up to the main roster, where he resumed his partnership with R-Truth. Following the tag team's disbandment in 2014, he recruited Kingston andBig E to form a stable calledThe New Day. He has attained the most success with the New Day, becoming a multi-time tag team champion alongside his stablemates, as part of the "Freebird Rule".