Richard Morton
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"
Acting
TV
Raw
as Ricky Morton
1993
TV
Raw
as The Rock 'n' Roll Express
1993
TV
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
as Ricky Morton
2019
TV
Dark Side of the Ring
2019
Movie
WWE WrestleMania XIV
as Ricky Morton
1998
Movie
The Rise & Fall of WCW
as Self
2009
TV
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
as Ricky Morton
2023
Movie
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
as Ricky Morton (Appearance)
1998
Movie
WWE Hall of Fame 2017
2017
Movie
NWA Starrcade 1985
as Ricky Morton
1985
Movie
NWA Starrcade 1987
as Ricky Morton
1987
Movie
WCW Capital Combat: Return of RoboCop
as Himself
1990
Movie
WCW Halloween Havoc 1990
as Himself
1990
Movie
WCW Starrcade 1990
as Ricky Morton
1990
Movie
WWE Survivor Series 1993
as Ricky Morton
1993
Movie
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
as Ricky Morton
1998
Movie
Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen
as Himself
2007
Movie
WCW The Great American Bash 1991
as Richard Morton
1991
TV
NWA Powerrr
as Ricky Morton
2019
Movie
WCW The Great American Bash 1990
as Himself
1990
Movie
WCW WrestleWar 1991
as Ricky Morton
1991
Movie
WCW Halloween Havoc 1991
as Richard Morton
1991
Movie
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
as Ricky Morton
2013
Movie
WCW WrestleWar 1990
as Ricky Morton
1990