Shaun Ricker (born November 1, 1982) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name LA Knight. Ricker is known for his time in Impact Wrestling as Eli Drake. Ricker has also worked extensively on the U.S. independent wrestling circuit, and has been signed by prominent promotions like Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
Ricker began his wrestling career in 2003 on the independent circuit. He later joined the then-NWA-affiliated Championship Wrestling from Hollywood in 2010. After leaving CWFH in 2013, Ricker signed a developmental contract with WWE and performed on its then-developmental territory of NXT as "Slate Randall" before being released in 2014. Ricker then signed with Impact Wrestling (then named Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) in 2015. Ricker found great success in Impact/TNA, holding the Impact Global Championship, the TNA King of the Mountain Championship, and the Impact World Tag Team Championship (with Scott Steiner), once each. He also won Impact's Feast or Fired briefcase twice.
After leaving Impact in 2019, Ricker signed with the recently rebooted NWA, where he held the NWA World Tag Team Championship (with James Storm) once. Ricker left the NWA in 2021 to sign with WWE. His character name changed to LA Knight, and he was again assigned to NXT (which was briefly a third major brand on par with two other WWE brands). Upon moving up to the SmackDown brand in 2022, Ricker was repackaged as a manager and adopted the character of a modeling agent named Max Dupri, before reverting back to his LA Knight persona, therefore resuming his in-ring performer role.

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