LA Knight
| LA Knight | |
|---|---|
Knight in 2024 | |
| Birth name | Shaun Edward Ricker |
| Born | November 1, 1982 Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Deuce Dick Rick Dick Rick Leykis El Hijo de Trump Eli Drake LA Knight Max Dupri Shaun Ricker Slate Randall |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) |
| Billed from | Baltimore, Maryland Hagerstown, Maryland Los Angeles, California |
| Trained by | Cody Hawk |
| Debut | February 15, 2003 |
Shaun Edward Ricker (born November 1, 1982) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name LA Knight.
Ricker began his professional wrestling career on the independent circuit in 2003 and he joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliated Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CW) in 2010. Ricker signed with WWE in 2013 and performed as an enhancement talent under the ring name Slate Randall until being released in 2014. After adopting the ring name Eli Drake, Ricker signed with TNA in 2015 and won the TNA World Championship, TNA King of the Mountain Championship, the TNA World Tag Team Championship (with Scott Steiner) once each and twice won the Feast or Fired briefcase.
Ricker departed TNA in 2019 and rejoined the NWA, winning the NWA World Tag Team Championship (with James Storm). He re-signed with WWE in 2021 under the ring name LA Knight and won the Million Dollar Championship once. Ricker was then repackaged as a manager and renamed Max Dupri in 2022 but later reverted to his original ring name. He gained increased popularity in early 2023 and won the WWE United States Championship twice, firstly at SummerSlam the following year.
Outside of wrestling, Ricker appeared on the reality television series The Hero and the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He has provided motion capture for other WWE wrestlers for the WWE 2K video game series and voiced a fictional character in WWE 2K22.