LA Knight
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Shaun Edward Ricker (born November 1, 1982), better known by the ring name LA Knight, is an American professional wrestler and actor. 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 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 left 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.