Tom Couch

Thomas R Couch is a professional wrestler better known as Tommy Rogers of The Fantastics Couch started wrestling in 1980 as Tommy Rogers in North Carolina He made his debut as a replacement for Charlie Cook in a match with Eddy Mansfield with no formal training Tommy then headed to Florida for a brief stay before heading to Portland then Memphis where he met his future tag team partner Bobby Fulton In a talent trade agreement between Memphis Jarrett and MidSouth Watts the newly formed Fantastics Rogers Fulton headed to Mid South There they had their first major program with The Midnight Express Condrey Eaton In late 1984 Rogers went to World Class Championship Wrestling where he and Bobby Fulton continued their legendary feud with the Midnight Express In 1986 Rogers and Fulton went to the Universal Wrestling Federation where they had a long series of violent matches against The Sheepherders Butch Miller Luke Williams They went back to WCCW in 1987 and feuded with The Rock N Roll RPMs The feud ended after The Fantastics won a scaffold match at The Parade of Champions In 1988 they went to the NWAs Jim Crockett Promotions to renew their feud with the Midnight Express They left in 1989 and had been wrestling in the independents ever since The Fantastics spent several tours in Japan during the 1990s working with such names as Dean and Joe Malenko In 1997 Rogers and Fulton both wrestled in the WWFs Light Heavyweight Division They were pitted against each other once on an episode of Raw Rogers defeated Fulton with the Tomakaze a finishing maneuver of Tommys invention later adopted by Christian Cage In 1987 The Fantastics made an appearance at the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico Rogers wrestled in ECW from 1997 to 1998 where he briefly teamed with Jerry Lynn Rogers also worked behind the scenes helping the ECW product as an agent In 2005 the Fantastics reformed on the indie circuit They won the SCW Tag Team Championship by defeating the Midnight Express in a steel cage match1 In 2006 Tommy moved to Honolulu Hawaii After undergoing hip replacement surgery in January 2007 he retired from the ring On June 1 2015 Couch was found dead in his Honolulu home by his roommate The cause of death was not released