Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1956-09-21 (Age: 70)
Place of Birth
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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"
Filmography (78)
JCW Strangle-Mania: Viva Las Violence 2026
2026
GCW: Joey Janela's Spring Break 9
2025
NWA Samhain
2023
NWA Crockett Cup 2023: Night 1
2023
Big Time Wrestling - Return of The Dragon
2022
Jim Crockett Promotions: Ric Flair's Last Match
2022
WrestleCon Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show 2022
2022WrestlePro Rock And Roll Forever
2022
WrestleCade Supershow 2021
2021Battleground Championship Wrestling
2021NEW Wrestlefest 25
2021
Joey Janela's Spring Break 4
2020
NWA Hard Times
2020