Anriel Howard (Lash Legend) at their June 20
wedding in Jamaica.
Former Hampton University wide receiver Trick Williams (born Matrick Belton) is currently a massive breakout star in the WWE.
Following his college football career, he transitioned to professional wrestling and has achieved major milestones, including winning the United States Championship at WrestleMania.
Williams played two seasons (2012 and 2013) as a wide receiver for the Pirates. He transferred and walked on as a receiver for South Carolina. He sat out in 2014 and played for the Gamecocks in 2015 to 2016.
He participated in the Philadelphia Eagles rookie camp before turning his sights to sports
entertainment.
After being cut from the mini-camp, Belton sent a tape to WWE in an attempt to enter the XFL, a quickly defunct football league also run by Vince McMahon. While he was unsuccessful, WWE reached out to him via email to encourage him to try out wrestling. He participated in a WWE tryout in December 2018.
He began his professional wrestling career in 2018 under the ring name Sweet Daddy
Trick when he trained in Philadelphia with his uncle. He then signed a developmental contract
with WWE in February 2021 and debuted in September of the same year under the Trick
Williams ring name.
Williams signed with the WWE and quickly became a prominent figure on NXT and mackDown.Championships. Since then, he has become the WWE United States Champion, a two-time NXT Champion, a one-time NXT North American Champion, and was the winner of the 2023 Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge.
He won the TNA World Championship,his first world championship, in May 2025 and
became the first WWE-contracted wrestler to win a TNA championship. In 2026, he started being managed by Lil Yachty.
The new star regularly incorporates his HBCU background and football athleticism into
his wrestling persona, becoming a fan-favorite entertainer. He was featured on a special ESPN
segment last week highlighting his Hampton connection.
On June 20, Belton married former college basketball star and now fellow WWE Superstar
Anriel Howard who performs under the nickname Lash Legend in a lavish ceremony in Jamaica.
The wedding was featured in an exclusive in the June 23 edition of PEOPLE Magazine.
The bride, 29, and groom, 32, first connected through work. “We were truly friends for a couple
years,” Howard remembers. “Then once we both were single we decided to get to know each other romantically.”
The couple got engaged during Thanksgiving dinner at their new home on Nov. 27, 2025, and
now look forward to “continuing to travel the world together, and eventually starting a family together.”