As a tag wrestler, Ricky Morton is heralded as one of the best babyfaces in peril - teaming with Robert Gibson as The Rock N' Roll Express, the tandem influenced everyone from The Rockers to The Hardy Boys. Leave it to the WCW braintrust to move the man away from what he was good at, repackaging him as Richard Morton in The York Foundation, a prim and proper heel stable during the early-90s. Turning on his longtime partner, the singles run wouldn't last, and Morton found himself one again tagging with Gibson in independent promotions across the US. Perhaps credit is due to WCW for trying something different, but the plight of Richard Morton is another example of why the pre-nWo days are often considered dark ones for the company.
