Ronnie Aaron Killings is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name R-Truth.

Killings is a former one-time United States Champion, one-time Tag Team Champion, and a two-time Hardcore Champion. Killings also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2002 to 2007, where he became the first African-American to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (which he held twice). While in TNA, Killings also held the NWA World Tag Team Championship on two occasions and the TNA World Tag Team Championship once.

Killings was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. To make extra money in his early 20's, Killings would sell cocaine on the streets for extra income. From a young age, Killings had developed a love for hip hop and breakdancing and attended Harding University High School where he competed in football alongside future MLB second baseman Ray Durham. Killings also competed in track and field, and was talented at both sports, receiving various college scholarships, but turned them down to further pursue a career in music. Killings also continued dealing drugs in order to help his music career financially and was arrested, spending 13 months incarcerated.

Jackie Crockett of the National Wrestling Alliance met Killings at a halfway house after Killings' release from prison, and tried to convince Killings to become a professional wrestler, but he was determined to focus on his music career. Killings spent two years working on his music career and then contacted Crockett once more and expressed an interest in becoming a wrestler. Crockett, by now the senior cameraman for World Championship Wrestling, took Killings to several WCW and Pro Wrestling Federation events, introducing him to wrestling personalities.

Killings debuted in the Pro Wrestling Federation (PWF) in 1997 as a manager, then spent three years traveling and training with Manny Fernandez. In 1999, he debuted in NWA Wildside as K-Krush, where he was awarded the newly created NWA Wildside Television Championship on December 12.

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