Gasparino instead went into business, eventually joining Lightnin Rentals, a film production equipment hire company, in New York City.
[4][7] In early-1999, Shane McMahon asked Gasparino and their mutual friend Rodney Leinhardt to film a series of vignettes about their upbringing in Greenwich to promote his match with X-Pac at WrestleMania XV.
Renamed "Pete Gas", Gasparino (along with Rodney and two other childhood friends of Shane, "Billy P" and "Willie Greene") made his live debut in the WWF on the March 22, 1999 episode of Raw, interfering in a street fight between McMahon and X-Pac.
[10][6] Inspired by the Socs, a gang of wealthy teenagers from the 1983 film The Outsiders, the Mean Street Posse were comedic villains: "the rich kids that everyone hated".
Unlike Gas and Rodney, Abs was not a childhood friend of Shane McMahon; instead, he was an experienced wrestler added to the group as a ringer.
On November 14, 1999, at Survivor Series, The British Bulldog and the Mean Street Posse lost to Gangrel, Mark Henry, Steve Blackman, and Val Venis in the titular match.
They gained an advantage by switching places with the third wrestler behind the referees' backs, thus enabling them to outnumber the other teams three to two, but nonetheless failed to win.
In early 2000, the Posse repeatedly tried to defeat Crash Holly for the Hardcore Championship, attacking the champion in unlikely venues such as an airport, a circus, and his hotel room.
The trio trained in Memphis from Wednesday to Sunday then joined the rest of the roster for Raw and SmackDown tapings on Monday and Tuesday.
[11] Gas and Rodney won the MCW Southern Tag Team Championship in May 2000, defeating Bull Pain and Todd Morton.
[6] Gasparino broke his retirement in 2007, he appeared on the 15th anniversary episode of Raw, competing in a Battle Royal, where he was eliminated by Bart Gunn.