Ricky Morton
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Morton in 2014
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| Birth name | Richard Wendell Morton |
| Born |
September 21, 1956 Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Residence | Bristol, Tennessee |
| Children | 7 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Richard Morton Rick Morton Ricky Morton |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | 203 lb (92 kg) |
| Billed from | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Trained by | Paul Morton Ken Lucas |
| Debut | 1978 |
Richard Wendell "Ricky" Morton (born September 21, 1956) is an American professional wrestler who has worked for such wrestling organizations as Jim Crockett Promotions, the American Wrestling Association, Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Morton had seventy-nine championship reigns throughout his career, and is best known for his appearances with Robert Gibson, with whom he has been a four time NWA/WCW World Tag Team champion as one-half of the tag team The Rock 'n' Roll Express.
Morton was trained by his father, Paul, and Ken Lucas before starting wrestling in 1978. His first match was against Ken Wayne. He wrestled primarily for Mid-Southern Wrestling in Memphis, Tennessee, often teaming with Lucas and Eddie Gilbert. The Rock n Roll Express was formed by booker Jerry Lawler. He & Robert Gibson went on to Mid-South Wrestling in 1983, The Rock 'n' Roll Express. They won the Mid-South Tag Team Title three times and feuded with the team that would become their archrivals, The Midnight Express of Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey. Because of his small stature and good looks, he was usually made the "Face in Peril", meaning he would be the one to take most of the punishment in the matches to get the fans behind the team. He was also the one that always suffered a humiliation or "injury" to further the storyline the team would be involved in. Nowadays, this is sometimes referred to as "Playing Ricky Morton". In the early 80s Ricky formed a successful tag team with Robert Gibson in Joe Blanchards South West wrestling territory feuding with The Grapplers.
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