LA Knight

Shaun Edward Ricker (born November 1, 1982) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name LA Knight. 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, Ricker 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 and won the NWA World Tag Team Championship (with James Storm) once. He re-signed with WWE in 2021 under the ring name LA Knight, and became a one-time Million Dollar Champion. He was 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 has since become 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.