![]() ![]() He and Rock-n-Roll Express partner Robert Gibson stayed in the WWF (now WWE) through the late ’90s, but that brand of “sports entertainment” wasn’t a good fit. Just a few minutes with Ricky Morton will let you know that he is “old school” and proud of it - a product of the days when wrestlers didn’t need glitz, glamour and pyrotechnics to get noticed they just needed to look ready to fight. Ricky can usually be found nearby, either as a ringside manager or a tag-team partner, but since Kerry won the NWA world junior heavyweight title in November, he has worked more as a singles wrestler. Kerry debuted a little less than three years ago, joining the NWA in the fall of 2021. Every moment is a blessing, whether it’s being on the road traveling, going to the airport, sitting in the airport for 8 hours if we’re delayed, it doesn’t matter, it’s still a blessing.” “I can’t always do this with him as he’s winding down his career in the ring. “I’m very fortunate and very blessed, to say the least, especially doing it with my father,” Kerry said. Kerry had a little bit of an edge on that, and I hope it takes him through his whole career.” Myself and Kerry are lucky that we had someone (Paul Morton) to make us understand it, because wrestling is not what people think it is. “It runs in the family,” said Ricky Morton, 66. They’ll do that this weekend, when the National Wrestling Alliance brings the Crockett Cup to the Fairgrounds Annex in Winston-Salem, N.C. Kerry and Ricky Morton are fortunate in one way, though - they get to perform together in the ring as a team. And just as he taught Ricky the ropes (so to speak), now Ricky is passing his knowledge on to his son Kerry. Ricky’s father, Paul Morton, learned the wrestling business as a longtime referee in Memphis and West Tennessee. But he’s also the midpoint of a legacy that has touched all parts of the sport for decades. As half of the Rock n’ Roll Express, Morton won the National Wrestling Alliance world tag-team titles nine times in the 1980s and ’90s. Ricky Morton is a professional wrestling legend. ![]()
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