Eli Drake
| Eli Drake | |
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Ricker wrestling in February 2014.
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| Birth name | Shaun Ricker |
| Born |
November 11, 1982 Hagerstown, Maryland |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Deuce Dick Rick Dick Rick Leykis Eli Drake Shaun Ricker Slate Randall El Hijo De Trump |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 232 lb (105 kg) |
| Billed from | Los Angeles, California |
| Trained by | Cody Hawk |
| Debut | 2002 |
Shaun Ricker (born November 11, 1982) is an American professional wrestler signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Eli Drake, where he is a one-time TNA King of the Mountain Champion.
Ricker appeared as a cast member on the TNT reality series The Hero, hosted by The Rock.
Ricker began working regularly for the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) in 2002 under the ring name Deuce. On November 9, 2004, Deuce would win the HWA Television Championship and lost it on January 4, 2005. He went on to compete in various matches that included singles and tag-team action before challenging unsuccessfully for the HWA Heavyweight Championship against Chad Collyer in a Title vs. Career match held on October 31, 2006.
Ricker would not return to HWA until late 2007 returning under the ring name Dick Rick at HWA Reborn in a losing title match against Brian Jennings for the HWA Heavyweight Championship on November 9. During 2008, Dick Rick competed in numerous tournament-styled matches for the Number 1 contender status for the HWA Heavyweight Championship. He won a three-way match against Deja Vu and JT Stahr on November 5 for the No 1 Contender title. On November 12, Rick lost to Jake Christ in the title match for the HWA Heavyweight Championship. After wrestling in an unsuccessful four-way elimination match for No. 1 Contender status on March 18, 2009, Rick went on to compete in several more tournament-styled matches before wrestling his last HWA match on June 3, losing to JT Stahr.
After HWA, Ricker started working for Mach One Wrestling (M1W) in late 2009. His first match was on M1W Fight Night, losing to Tommy Wilson on October 16. He then won two consecutive matches in singles action against Andrew Hellman during M1W Fight Night on October 23 and again on October 30. Ricker went on to team with Willie Mack to defeating Andrew Hellman and Sonny Samson. He faced and lost to Brian Cage in singles and tag-team action during the months of November and December. Cage would be the man Ricker would later form the team known as Natural Selection. Finding initial success as a tag team, Ricker and Cage went on during January month in 2010, competing in a tag team tournament, winning all of their matches including the final match for the M1W Tag Team Championships on January 29 from the team of The RockNES Monsters (Johnny Goodtime and Johnny Yuma). However, the champions lost the titles to the same team they defeated to first win them at the M1W event on April 16. Ricker's last match for M1W was on October 29, 2011, defeating Nick Madrid at M1W Wrath Of Con III.
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