Shad Gaspard

Shad Gaspard

Shad Gaspard (January 13, 1981 – disappeared May 17, 2020) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his time with WWE, where he teamed with his partner JTG as a member of Cryme Tyme under his real name.[2]

Since departing WWE in 2010, Gaspard has pursued an acting career that has included several roles in films and television series like Think Like a Man Too, Get Hard, The Game and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series. He is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Assassin & Son.

Gaspard went missing on May 17, 2020 while swimming at Venice Beach, California.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gaspard is of Haitian and Curaçaoan descent. His father, Ben Gaspard, is a former street enforcer for street gangs, and was a personal security guard in the early 1970s; he worked for gangster Frank Lucas and now owns Mcfay Contracting Inc. Shad is the third of six siblings.[citation needed]

At age 5, his father began training him in boxing, and at age eight he began training in a mixture of different martial arts such as Judo, Jeet Kune Do, Kickboxing, and Muay Thai. As a student, Gaspard quickly developed into an aggressive fighter, winning many fight tournaments as an amateur. His mother, Ingrid Chittick, gave him the nickname “Beast” as a result of his aggressiveness. At age sixteen, Gaspard began prize fighting for promoter Hardbody Harrison, a former World Championship Wrestling wrestler and FX Tough Man Champion, in bar fighting tournaments such as boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts (MMA), and tough man competitions. Even though Gaspard was only sixteen years old, he competed against adults who were older than he was by five to twenty years, due to his large size. Gaspard holds won-loss records as a No Holds Barred fighter (35–7) and an amateur boxer (57–26).[citation needed]

Gaspard was extensively involved in athletics during his high school years, specializing in wrestling, track, and basketball.[3] After high school, he continued to play basketball at Georgia Perimeter College, and after leaving, he became a bodyguard for several rappers and actors, including pop star Britney Spears, Puff Daddy, and Mike Tyson