LA Knight

  • Born: 11/01/1982 in Hagerstown, Maryland
  • Birthname: Shaun Ricker
  • Height & Weight: 6'1", 234 Ib
Titles Won:
  • WWE Million Dollar Championship
  • GFW / Impact Global / World Championship
  • Impact World Tag Team Championship – with Scott Steiner
  • TNA King Of The Mountain Championship
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship – with James Storm
  • HWA Television Championship
  • HWA Attack of the Trios (2009) – with Dean Jablonski and Jon Moxley

Ricker is an American professional wrestler who previously worked under the ring name Eli Drake, where he is a former one-time Impact World Champion, King of the Mountain Champion and Impact World Tag Team Champion with Scott Steiner. He has won three Feast or Fired briefcases. He was fired by Impact Wrestling because he refused to work an intergender match with Tessa Blanchard and criticized management’s booking of him.

He appeared as a cast member on the TNT reality series The Hero, hosted by The Rock. In 2019, he signed a contract with the National Wrestling Alliance and became a tag team champion with James Storm. In 2021, it was announced he had signed with WWE and later debuted with the NXT brand under the new name “LA Knight”. At NXT TakeOver: In Your House, he defeated Cameron Grimes to win the official Million Dollar Championship endorsed by Ted DiBiase.

Other Notable Achievements

CWFH Heritage Heavyweight Championship

NWA Heritage Tag Team Championship – with Brian Cage (2 times)

Red Carpet Rumble (2013)

FSW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

EWF Heavyweight Championship

Great Goliath Battle Royal (2011) – with Josh Dunbar

Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship

M1W Tag Team Championship – with Brian Cage

M1W Tag Team Championship Tournament (2010) – with Brian Cage

PWR Heavyweight Championship