LA Knight
Knight in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shaun Edward Ricker 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), better known by the ring name LA Knight, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand.
Ricker began his professional wrestling career on the independent circuit in 2003 and joined the NWA-affiliated CWFH in 2010. He 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, he signed with TNA in 2015 and became a one-time TNA World Champion, one-time TNA King of the Mountain Champion, one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion (with Scott Steiner), and a two-time Feast or Fired winner.
Ricker rejoined NWA in 2019, becoming a one-time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with James Storm). He re-signed with WWE in 2021, took the ring name LA Knight, and became a one-time Million Dollar Champion. He was then repackaged as Max Dupri, the manager of Maximum Male Models, in 2022; upon reverting to the LA Knight character a few months later, he began gaining popularity and became a two-time WWE United States Champion.
Outside of wrestling, Ricker appeared on the reality television series The Hero and the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He provided motion capture for other WWE wrestlers for the WWE 2K video game series and voiced a fictional character in WWE 2K22.