About Ricky Morton
Richard Wendell Morton (born September 21, 1956) is an American professional wrestler who currently performs on the independent circuit. For most of his career, Morton has teamed with Robert Gibson as part of the Rock 'n' Roll Express, widely regarded as "the consummate babyface tag team". Morton has competed for numerous promotions in the United States including the Continental Wrestling Association, Mid-South Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), as well as the Japanese promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Wrestle Association R (WAR). 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. Known for his ability to elicit sympathy from audiences by convincingly selling pain, Morton's technique gave rise to the expression "playing Ricky Morton". The team won the Mid-South Tag Team Championship three times and began a feude with the team that would become their archrivals, The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey). Morton quickly became a popular performer due to his athleticism, charismatic appearance, and distinctive spiky blond mullet.
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