The Thugs was a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of "The Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers.
The Thugs was a tag team that consisted of "The Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers.
The duo first wrestled as a tag team on March 23, 1995, where Dirty White Boy acted as Smothers' partner in a tag team match against The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saed) during Smothers' feud with Gangstas.
[5][6] Smothers was not having a proper partner to beat The Gangstas so he occasionally teamed up with Bob Armstrong,[7][8] WWF's The Undertaker[8][9] and Dirty White Boy.
[10][11] Dirty White Boy and Tracy Smothers became a permanent tag team on April 13 television taping of SMW defeating Larry Santo and The Wolfman.
[33] On June 12 television tapings of SMW, they defeated D'Lo Brown and his new partner Killer Kyle.
On June 16 show, they defeated PG-13 (J. C. Ice and Wolfie D) and new rivals The Headbangers in a triple threat elimination tag team match.
[50] The Thugs had begun a feud with the Dynamic Duo after subbing for The Rock 'n' Roll Express and defeating them for the SMW Tag Team Championship.
After they lost the SMW Tag Team Championship to Heavenly Bodies, The Thugs started a program with Prichard and Del Rey.
[56] As a result of winning the tournament, they earned a shot at the titles against Heavenly Bodies on September 1 but the champions disqualified themselves to retain the belts.