Ronald ("the Beast") Ashton (born May 8, 1954) is a former WHA left winger for the Winnipeg Jets.
In the World Hockey Association, he played 36 games and registering 16 goals, 20 assists, and 366 penalty minutes.
He was best known as a fourth line player, enforcer, and for accumulating over 100 penalty minutes in a game, setting and maintaining a record which still stands in the now defunct WHA.
Ashton's stint with the Jets included him playing with the likes of hockey superstars Bobby Hull, Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.