The Gangstas

The Gangstas was a professional wrestling tag team and stable, consisting of New Jack and Mustafa Saed in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). The group originally started as a three man group with D'Lo Brown in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW), before evolving into a four man group with Killer Kyle.

Professional wrestling career

Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1994-1995)

SMW was the birthplace of the controversial "Gangstas" gimmick, where the African American wrestlers New Jack, Mustafa and "Uptown" D'Lo Brown would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers and O.J. Simpson to infuriate the southern white crowd. They would use fried chicken and watermelons as props and win matches as a result of a two count (rather than the conventional three count), purportedly due to Affirmative Action. Ring announcers would, on more than one occasion, confuse their hometown as being Louisiana (LA) instead of Los Angeles (L.A.) which would entice New Jack to verbally abuse the announcer. Killer Kyle would join the Gangstas in March 1995.