Richard Morton
Known for Acting · 95 credits
- Born
- 1956-09-21 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Also known as
- The Rock 'n' Roll Express · Ricky Morton · 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"
Known For
TV Shows (17)
Raw
1993
as Ricky Morton / The Rock 'n' Roll Express
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
2019
as Ricky Morton
All Elite Wrestling: Collision
2023
as Ricky Morton
Mid-South Wrestling
1981
as Ricky Morton
Dark Side of the Ring
2019
Hey! (EW)
2022
as Ricky Morton
Clash of the Champions
1988
as Ricky Morton (Interview) / Himself / Richard Morton
NWA World Championship Wrestling
1985
as Ricky Morton
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
1981
as Ricky Morton
NWA Powerrr
2019
as Ricky Morton
USWA Championship Wrestling
1977
as Rick Morton / Ricky Morton
Ohio Valley Wrestling TV
1998
as Ricky Morton
AWA Arena Shows
1981
as Ricky Morton
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
1994
as Ricky Morton
WCW Arena Shows
1983
as Ricky Morton
NWA USA
2022
as Ricky Morton
AWA All-Star Wrestling
1987
as Ricky Morton
Movies (78)
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte
1986
as Ricky Morton
WWE WrestleMania XIV
1998
as Ricky Morton
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
1998
as Ricky Morton
Jim Crockett Promotions: Ric Flair's Last Match
2022
as Ricky Morton
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
1998
as Ricky Morton (Appearance)
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
2012
as Himself
NWA Clash of The Champions III: Fall Brawl '88
1988
as Ricky Morton
NWA Into the Fire
2019
as Ricky Morton
WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash
2014
as Himself
WCW Halloween Havoc 1991
1991
as Richard Morton
The Rise & Fall of WCW
2009
as Self
WCW WrestleWar 1992
1992
as Richard Morton
WCW The Great American Bash 1991
1991
as Richard Morton
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
2012
as Himself
The Second Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
1987
as Himself
WCW Starrcade 1991
1991
as Richard Morton
WCW The Great American Bash 1990
1990
as Himself
WCW Capital Combat: Return of RoboCop
1990
as Himself
NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush
1990
as Ricky Morton
NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games
1987
as Himself
GCW Joey Janela's Spring Break 3: Part 2
2019
as Ricky Morton
NWA Clash of the Champions II: Miami Mayhem
1988
as Ricky Morton (Interview)
WCW SuperBrawl II
1992
as Richard Morton
WWE Survivor Series 1993
1993
as Ricky Morton
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
2013
as Ricky Morton
WCW WrestleWar 1991
1991
as Ricky Morton
NWA Starrcade 1985
1985
as Ricky Morton
NWA The Great American Bash '86: Livin' in the Promise Land
1986
as Ricky Morton
WCW SuperBrawl 1
1991
as Ricky Morton
WCW Clash of The Champions XVIII
1992
as Richard Morton
WCW WrestleWar 1990
1990
as Ricky Morton
The Life And Times of Paul Boesch
1994
as Ricky Morton (archive footage)
NWA Starrcade 1987
1987
as Ricky Morton
Ultimate Death Match 3
2011
as Self
WCW Clash of The Champions XVI: Fall Brawl '91
1991
as Richard Morton
Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen
2007
as Himself
NWA Super Towns on The SuperStation
1987
as Ricky Morton
Beyond Americanrana 2019
2019
ROH: Honor For All
2019
as Ricky Morton
WCW Starrcade 1990
1990
as Ricky Morton
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Greensboro
1986
as Himself
WrestleCade Supershow 2019
2019
WCW Halloween Havoc 1990
1990
as Himself
WrestlePro Rock And Roll Forever
2022
as Ricky Morton
AWA SuperClash III
1988
as Ricky Morton
WCW SuperBrawl III
1993
as Ricky Morton
WrestleCade Supershow 2021
2021
as Ricky Morton
NWA Superstars on The SuperStation
1986
as Ricky Morton
Battleground Championship Wrestling
2021
as Ricky Morton
AWA The Road to Super Clash III
1988
as Ricky Morton
Big Time Wrestling - Return of The Dragon
2022
as Ricky Morton
WWE Hall of Fame 2017
2017
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
1985
as Ricky Morton
SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993
1993
as Ricky Morton
Blood, Brawls and Grudges
1995
as Ricky Morton
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
1985
ECW Crossing the Line Again 1997
1997
as Ricky Morton
The First Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
1986
as Ricky Morton
NWA Hard Times
2020
as Ricky Morton
The 1994 NWA World's Championship Tournament
1994
as Ricky Morton
CSW International Bash
1989
as Himself
WCW Clash of The Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite
1991
as Himself
SMW Night of The Legends
1994
as Ricky Morton
NWA Crockett Cup 2023: Night 1
2023
as Ricky Morton
Timeline: The History of WCW – 1986 – As Told By The Rock 'n' Roll Express
2016
as Himself
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1993
1993
as Himself
GCW: Joey Janela's Spring Break 9
2025
as Ricky Morton
WrestleCon Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show 2022
2022
as Ricky Morton
Joey Janela's Spring Break 4
2020
as Himself
NWA Samhain
2023
as Ricky Morton
WrestleCade 2016 - The Final 3 Count
2016
I Never Quit: The Magnum T.A. Story
2016
FMW Kawasaki Stadium 7th Anniversary
1996
as Ricky Morton
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992
1992
as Himself
NWA & ROH: The Crockett Cup
2019
SMW Bluegrass Brawl 1993
1993
as Ricky Morton
NEW Wrestlefest 25
2021
as Ricky Morton
JCW Strangle-Mania: Viva Las Violence 2026
2026
as Ricky Morton
About 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… With 95 credits spanning from 1977 to 2026, Richard Morton has appeared in 78 films and 17 TV shows.
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- NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte (1986) — as Ricky Morton
- WWE WrestleMania XIV (1998) — as Ricky Morton
- WWE Unforgiven: In Your House (1998) — as Ricky Morton
- Jim Crockett Promotions: Ric Flair's Last Match (2022) — as Ricky Morton
- WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House (1998) — as Ricky Morton (Appearance)
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