Richard Morton
Biography
Richard Wendell Morton is an American professional wrestler, currently performing on the independent circuit. He is the current ECW Television Champion, after pinning Matt Cardona at GCW Say You Will. For most of his career, Morton has performed with Robert Gibson as The Rock N' Roll Express, described as "the consummate baby face tag team". Morton has wrestled for multiple promotions in the United States including the Continental Wrestling Association, Mid-South Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, as well as the Japanese promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and Wrestle Association R. Morton has held dozens of championships throughout his career, including the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, NWA World Tag Team Championship, USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship, USWA World Tag Team Championship, and WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. He has been inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame, Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, and WWE Hall of Fame. His skill at driving audiences into a sympathetic frenzy by convincingly selling pain gave rise to the expression "playing Ricky Morton"
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Movies (42)
GCW: Joey Janela's Spring Break 9
as Ricky Morton
2025
NWA Samhain
as Ricky Morton
2023
NWA Crockett Cup 2023: Night 1
as Ricky Morton
2023
Big Time Wrestling - Return of The Dragon
as Ricky Morton
2022
Jim Crockett Promotions: Ric Flair's Last Match
as Ricky Morton
2022
WrestleCon Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show 2022
as Ricky Morton
2022
WrestlePro Rock And Roll Forever
as Ricky Morton
2022
WrestleCade Supershow 2021
as Ricky Morton
2021
Battleground Championship Wrestling
as Ricky Morton
2021
NEW Wrestlefest 25
as Ricky Morton
2021
Joey Janela's Spring Break 4
as Himself
2020
NWA Hard Times
as Ricky Morton
2020
NWA Into the Fire
as Ricky Morton
2019
WrestleCade Supershow 2019
2019
ROH: Honor For All
as Ricky Morton
2019
Beyond Americanrana 2019
2019
NWA & ROH: The Crockett Cup
2019
GCW Joey Janela's Spring Break 3: Part 2
as Ricky Morton
2019
WWE Hall of Fame 2017
2017
WrestleCade 2016 - The Final 3 Count
2016
I Never Quit: The Magnum T.A. Story
2016
Timeline: The History of WCW – 1986 – As Told By The Rock 'n' Roll Express
as Himself
2016
WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash
as Himself
2014
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
as Ricky Morton
2013
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
as Himself
2012
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
as Himself
2012
Ultimate Death Match 3
as Self
2011
The Rise & Fall of WCW
as Self
2009
Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen
as Himself
2007
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
as Ricky Morton
1998
WWE WrestleMania XIV
as Ricky Morton
1998
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
as Ricky Morton (Appearance)
1998
ECW Crossing the Line Again 1997
as Ricky Morton
1997
Blood, Brawls and Grudges
as Ricky Morton
1995
The 1994 NWA World's Championship Tournament
as Ricky Morton
1994
SMW Night of The Legends
as Ricky Morton
1994
The Life And Times of Paul Boesch
as Ricky Morton (archive footage)
1994
SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993
as Ricky Morton
1993
WWE Survivor Series 1993
as Ricky Morton
1993
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1993
as Himself
1993
SMW Bluegrass Brawl 1993
as Ricky Morton
1993
WCW SuperBrawl III
as Ricky Morton
1993
TV Shows (8)
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
as Ricky Morton
2023
Hey! (EW)
as Ricky Morton
2022
NWA Powerrr
as Ricky Morton
2019
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
as Ricky Morton
2019
Dark Side of the Ring
2019
Ohio Valley Wrestling TV
as Ricky Morton
1998
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
as Ricky Morton
1994
Raw
as Ricky Morton
1993