Tom Prichard

Thomas Prichard is a retired American professional wrestler and author He is the brother of Chris and Bruce Prichard Prichard competed under his own name with his Heavenly Bodies attire at the Survivor Series 1995 wrestling on future tag team partner Skips team The Bodydonnas Prichard was the first man eliminated as the Bodydonnas defeated Barry Horowitzs Underdogs team A month later Prichard was officially introduced as Zip Skips onscreen cousin and tag team partner interfering in a match allowing Skip to defeat Rad Radford who had been trying to become a Bodydonna himselfBefore this appearance he had cut off his trademark curly long brown locks into a blond crew cut to more resemble his storyline cousin On the WrestleMania XII preshow on March 31 1996 the team defeated The Godwinns in the finals of an eight team tournament to win the vacant WWE World Tag Team Championship They held the titles until May 19 1996 when they were defeated by The Godwinns in Madison Square Garden in New York City After Skip left WWE in fall of 1996 Prichard became a masked jobber named Dr X Dr X fought mainly on house shows but made a few TV appearances on Superstars Dr X lost to Brakkus at In Your House 12 Its Time By 1997 he became a trainer for the company responsible for training such future stars as The Rock Kurt Angle and Mark Henry among others On September 27 1999 Prichard teamed up with Jeff Jarrett to face against Chyna and Debra on Raw Is War Prichard hit Chyna with a guitar and Jarrett was knocked out cold as Chyna went for the victory In addition Prichard made a few appearances as a singles wrestler for ECW and also cohosted Byte This WWEs internet talk show Prichard was released from WWE in 2004 He went on to wrestle in the United Wrestling Association USWA and in various other independent promotions in the Southeastern United States He also holds training seminars in conjunction with certain promotions During this time Prichard also befriended online professional wrestling journalist James Guttman of World Wrestling Insanity and provided a weekly commentary on the world of pro wrestling entitled Tuesdays with Tom On August 10 2006 eight days prior to his 47th birthday he became the oldest man to win the United Wrestling Association Heavyweight Championship defeating Dillinger for the title In January 2007 he was rehired by WWE and replaced Bill DeMott as the head trainer for Deep South Wrestling DSW When DSW closed he was moved to WWEs new developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling On May 30 2012 Prichard was released from the WWE being replaced by Bill DeMott as the head trainer In 2017 Dr Tom Prichard had a match in Runcorn Wrestling Academy RWA in which he teamed in an 8 man tag team match with the owner of the RWA and former trainee of Dr Tom Prichard in OVW Andreas Rossi Andy Baker Chris Von Sharpe and Connor The Bullet Stafford to take on the team of Fantastic Matt Fox Demoni Johnathan Alexander and Mr Williams At the end of this match both Dr Tom Prichard and Andreas Rossi both announced that this was their last match