'At first, we started being villains,' Ford says, reflecting on his time with Lashley. 'And the crowd just wasn't he wasn't having it. We kept trying to force them, and they said, "No, you are the same Profits". That's what I love about this business, the fans, they run everything, they'll tell you exactly what they want, and what they did not want was bad Profits.
'I'm glad with what we had for the short period of time, B-Fab and the All Mighty when he was here. But what I took from that lesson is anything can happen, anything can transition, anybody can leave, anybody can just depart at any time. And you kind of just have to pick up whatever's left and just run with it. And that's exactly what I'm doing right now.
'When all of those things were happening, we were very, very excited, because he (Lashley) was somebody we looked up to, somebody I watched as a kid, and now I'm being paired with him, and he's being my mentor, and he's ushering us in this new chapter of The Street Profits.
'All these things are running, we have a WrestleMania win, and then boom, it just stops. And it's been this constant stop and go and stop and go and stop and go with the Profits where we'll get momentum and then the momentum will stop, then momentum will start again, and the momentum will stop. And for us, that's frustrating, because it's hard to get behind a team whose momentum starts and then it shifts again.
Lashley had been employed as a mentor to Ford and Angelo Dawkins but their time together was short-lived
They had a winning moment together at WrestleMania but breaking through has proved to be hard for Ford
Ford admitted that some of the people he has been working with may not have the same mentality as him
'This is a business at the end of the day. You can get into a faction. I have aspirations and passions and things I want to do, but if the other people that I'm attached to don't have the same mentality, then it can fail. They can be having dreams or aspirations of being champion, or leaving or not renewing contracts or doing whatever else it is, but it's not the same mindset of whatever I have going on. So I always take it as whatever you're involved with just be prepared for it to shift, because everyone may not have the same mindset as you have.
'It's like doing a group project at school. Everyone's on the same page, but there's always the one that may have different visions or a different route that they want to go, and you either have to reach a compromise and work it out together, where you reach a medium, or you all go your separate ways and you do what best works for yourself.
'You know how the world is now, if you don't have anything to show your worth, you kind of feel like you have no worth, and that's why we're at now. You're not in the conversations, not in the ads, not on the billboards, not in the top this, you're not in the top that, you kind of just there. And for me, that bothers me, and that's what I'm aiming to fix now. Not just being attached to so many people and having so many transitions, but moving forward and actually becoming successful again, having some titles, having some accolades, having some things that are going to make people start taking us serious.'
