History Wrestling / RonKillings

* DumbassHasAPoint: When R-Truth appears in the Judgment Day's clubhouse the second time to deliver a TV to the group, he points out that the stable needs better security as he leaves. Damien Priest quietly admits that Truth isn't wrong about locking the doors.

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in [[Wrestling/IMPACTWrestling TNA]] and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 53-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

* OlderThanTheyLook: R-Truth is, unbelievably, turning 52 years old in 2024. For perspective, he's older than Rey Mysterio, Edge and The Rock, and just three years younger than Triple H, and yet he ''still'' wrestles a high-speed, acrobatic ring style.

* RingOldies: Actually qualifies by definition of the trope; as of January 2024 he's sitting on a more than 20-year wrestling career and is on the road as a full-time talent and a weekly feature on TV at age '''51'''. [[OlderThanTheyLook Not that you could tell by looking at him.]] He's been around so long that he's held the WWF Hardcore Championship ''and'' its SpiritualSuccessor, the [[=24/7=]] Championship - titles that had about a two-decade gap between their existences.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Actually an Alternate ''Brand'' Equivalent. If Wrestling/TheJudgmentDay is to Wrestling/TheBloodline than he is to Wrestling/SamiZayn, wanting to become part of the mega-heel stable while having plenty of comedic moments.

* DumbassHasAPoint: When R-Truth appears in the Judgment Day's clubhouse the second time to deliver a TV to the group, he points out that the stable needs better security as he leaves. Damien Priest admits that Truth isn't wrong about locking the doors.

* HiddenDepths: During his 24/7 Title reign, he got a note to meet up at a city tree lighting event. The note was written in ''Japanese'', and he immediately knew that it was from Akira Tozawa.

* ImaginaryFriend: Little Jimmy. And lord help you if you decide to play along with him and actually kick Little Jimmy for the hell of it. [[BerserkButton Truth doesn't react well to Little Jimmy getting kicked. At all.]]

* GameBreakingInjury: Wasn't on TV for several months because of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150511053459/http://www.24wrestling.com/24/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/truth-injury-490x653.jpg this knee injury.]] (WARNING: MAY INDUCE {{Squick}}.) He later [[TheBusCameBack returned]] to save Wrestling/KofiKingston from a beatdown courtesy of Wrestling/DamienSandow.

* RingOldies: Actually qualifies by definition of the trope; as of 2019 he's sitting on a 20-year wrestling career and is on the road as a full-time talent and a weekly feature on TV at age '''48'''. [[OlderThanTheyLook Not that you could tell by looking at him.]] He's been around so long that he's held the WWF Hardcore Championship ''and'' its SpiritualSuccessor, the [[=24/7=]] Championship - titles that had about a two-decade gap between their existences.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Ever since gaining the 24/7 title, Truth has gained a very persistent enemy in Wrestling/DrakeMaverick who wants the title for himself and goes to rather extreme lengths, such as putting a bounty on Truth's head so that he will buy it from the wrestler who pinned Truth, [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Million Dollar Man]]-style. Also Jinder Mahal who will obsessively follow him everywhere (and we mean EVERYWHERE, from a golf field to an airport TARMAC) in order to get the title, to the insane point he wouldn't rescue Truth from suffocating inside a box if there wasn't a referee who could count the pin after he got him out. More recently, Akira Tozawa and Drew Gulak have gotten into the act, Tozawa even picking up a gang of ninja mooks for the occasion.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: After getting his 24/7 championship from Major Jacobs (not ''Kane'', Mayor Jacobs), he manages to let the mayor not put him in a chokeslam by pointing out that being a mayor and being a 24/7 champion are similar in function of being high-demanding jobs. Mayor Jacobs concedes to the point and lets Truth have the belt.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Wrestling/RickySteamboat took Ron Killing's rantings in TNA personally, feeling Truth was either criticizing the job he was doing or being racist against the fans. Ron Killings instead said that Ricky Steamboat should be able to relate to everything Ron Killings had an issue with, that it was a shame Steamboat never got a shot at the WWF Championship despite having matches people still talked about to that very day, and that TNA was doing the same to Killings. After hearing him out, Steamboat agreed with him.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Actually an Alternate ''Brand'' Equivalent. If ''Wrestling/TheJudgmentDay'' is to ''Wrestling/TheBloodline'' than he is to Wrestling/SamiZayn, wanting to become part of the mega-heel stable while having plenty of comedic moments.

* OlderThanTheyLook: R-Truth is, unbelievably, 50 years old. For perspective, he's older than Rey Mysterio, Edge and The Rock, and just three years younger than Triple H, and yet he ''still'' wrestles a high-speed, acrobatic ring style.

* OlderThanTheyLook: R-Truth is, unbelievably, 50 years old. For perspective, he's older than Edge and The Rock, and just three years younger than Triple H, and yet he ''still'' wrestles a high-speed, acrobatic ring style.

* StunnedSilence: When Truth came down to the ring in the aforementioned Confederate uniform and song, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin raised his microphone to make a remark and then let it drop back down, [[SarcasmFailure unable to say anything in response]]. You could actually see the point as to when he simply went "ScrewThisImOuttaHere" on the conversation entirely. And when you [[JustForPun stun]] Steve Austin...[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments you've done something.]]

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 53-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

* AngryBlackManStereotype: He was encouraged to be by [[AmoralAttorney Judge Jeff G. Bailey]], who told Killings and his other black clients that they were superior athletes being held down by the racist system of Georgia. Of course, this was Bailey's attempt to take control of NCW and later NWA Wildside. However, on Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s fifth [=PPV=], July 17, 2002, he cut a promo which ended, "I'm not an angry black man. I'm just the damn truth - and the truth will no longer be denied."

* MalcolmXerox: As part of the "New Panthers" in XPW, then during his original heel run in Wrestling/{{TNA}}. Part of the initial angle was the fact that no black man had been Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html World Heavyweight Champion]] before ([[ThreeMonthRule Bobo Brazil, Carlos Colón and Jack Veneno won it but then they all were stripped]]). It was 2002. He ultimately won the title twice.

* ShoutOut: His team with Wrestling/{{Konnan}} and [[Wrestling/RoadDogg BG James]] in Wrestling/{{TNA}}: [[Music/TwoLiveCrew The 3 Live Kru]] (later became the 4 Live Kru with the addition of Kip James [WWE's Wrestling/BillyGunn].)

* WeaponOfChoice: A water bottle. Seriously. And it works. It comes from the angle that originally turned him heel. As part of Wrestling/JohnMorrison's promo against Truth, [=JoMo=] claimed that R-Truth's stamina was down because of his smoking habit. Truth was caught at one point during his match drinking from a water bottle. Later that same episode, when he beat down John Morrison, he used the water bottle for the first time.

* OlderThanTheyLook: R-Truth is, unbelievably, pushing 50. For perspective, he's older than Edge and The Rock, and just three years younger than Triple H, and yet he ''still'' wrestles a high-speed, acrobatic ring style.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His actual name Ron Killings, anyone? He's using R-Truth now and before that, K-Kwik.

* AngryBlackMan
** He was encouraged to be by [[AmoralAttorney Judge Jeff G. Bailey]], who told Killings and his other black clients that they were superior athletes being held down by the racist system of Georgia. Of course, this was Bailey's attempt to take control of NCW and later NWA Wildside. However, on Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s fifth [=PPV=], July 17, 2002, he cut a promo which ended, "I'm not an angry black man. I'm just the damn truth - and the truth will no longer be denied."
** During his storyline alongside Wrestling/TheMiz in 2011, which managed to scare most of the Raw roster to get them to vote "no confidence" on Triple H.

** At the very beginning of his most heel turn in 2011, he was certainly a slightly unhinged loose cannon, but as the heel run has gone on, his SanitySlippage has been cranked UpToEleven...''and then [[SerialEscalation slightly past it.]]''

* LargeHam: Is a bit of one as a face, but then again, [[WorldOfHam so are most guys in pro wrestling.]] [[EvilIsHammy Since his heel turn in 2011,]] Truth hasn't just [[ChewingTheScenery chewed scenery]], at some points he's ''[[UpToEleven swallowed it whole.]]''

* NoIndoorVoice: Face or heel...when cutting promos, R-Truth has two volumes: loud and [[UpToEleven louder.]]

* UncleTomfoolery: Played straight, then subverted, then ''double''-subverted in the course of a single year. Truth's heel turn in the spring of 2011 was partly prompted by his desire to stop acting hammy for the fans like a stereotypical black comedian. But now that he's back to being a face again, the drawl and the double-takes and the other minstrel-like qualities seem to have not only returned, but are being taken UpToEleven. At least he's a badass minstrel.

A rundown of his career can be found at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Killings The Other Wiki.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: R-Truth can, in a sentence, be summed up as a complete idiot. He's also a decorated champion, having held a tag title once, the Hardcore and United States titles twice each, and the new WWE 24/7 Championship a truly comical ''forty-plus times''.

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 51-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

* NotSoDifferent: Wrestling/RickySteamboat took Ron Killing's rantings in TNA personally, feeling Truth was either criticizing the job he was doing or being racist against the fans. Ron Killings instead said that Ricky Steamboat should be able to relate to everything Ron Killings had an issue with, that it was a shame Steamboat never got a shot at the WWF Championship despite having matches people still talked about to that very day, and that TNA was doing the same to Killings. After hearing him out, Steamboat agreed with him.

-->'''R-Truth:''' I yelled to those pigeons, I said, 'Hey pigeons! The Rock and Cena are gonna lose tonight!' You know what those pigeons said?...Nothing. [[RealityEnsues They're pigeons. Pigeons don't talk.]] All they do is crap!

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 49-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 46-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 45-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.

Ronnie Aaron Killings (born January 19, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, rapper, and actor. As a wrestler, he is better known by his ring name, R-Truth (previously K-Kwik and Ron "The Truth" Killings). He has wrestled in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and more famously Wrestling/{{WWE}}, where he is a one-time Tag Team Champion, a two-time Hardcore and United States Champion, and a [[OverlyLongGag (last time we checked)]] 41-time 24/7 Champion. His career started in 1997.