Tom Prichard
Born
August 18, 1959 (age 66)
Birthplace
Pasadena, Texas, USA

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 Skip's team "The Bodydonnas." Prichard was the first man eliminated as the Bodydonnas defeated Barry Horowitz's "Underdogs" team. A month later, Prichard was officially introduced as Zip, Skip's on-screen cousin and tag team partner, interfering in a match allowing Skip to defeat Rad Radford, who had been trying to become a Bodydonna himself.Before 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 pre-show, 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: It's 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 co-hosted Byte This!, WWE's 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 WWE's 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.

Movies

2nd Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show
2nd Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show
1999
WWE Sunny
WWE Sunny
1997 ★ 8.0
Zip
WWE Action Zone!
WWE Action Zone!
1997
Bodydonna Zip
WWE SummerSlam 1996
WWE SummerSlam 1996
1996 ★ 8.5
Bodydonna Zip
WWE In Your House 9: International Incident
WWE In Your House 9: International Incident
1996 ★ 10.0
Bodydonna Zip
WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies
WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies
1996 ★ 8.5
Bodydonna Zip
WWE WrestleMania XII
WWE WrestleMania XII
1996 ★ 7.0
Bodydonna Zip
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
1996 ★ 5.5
Bodydonna Zip
ECW House Party 1996
ECW House Party 1996
1996 ★ 9.0
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWF Mega Matches '95
WWF Mega Matches '95
1995
WWE Survivor Series 1995
WWE Survivor Series 1995
1995 ★ 8.4
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Superbowl of Wrestling
SMW Superbowl of Wrestling
1995
Dr. Tom Prichard
Blood, Brawls and Grudges
Blood, Brawls and Grudges
1995
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE Royal Rumble 1995
WWE Royal Rumble 1995
1995 ★ 7.0
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE WrestleFest '95
WWE WrestleFest '95
1995
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE Survivor Series 1994
WWE Survivor Series 1994
1994 ★ 8.2
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994
WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994
1994
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994
1994
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Night of The Legends
SMW Night of The Legends
1994 ★ 6.0
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE WrestleMania X
WWE WrestleMania X
1994 ★ 8.1
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE March to WrestleMania X
WWE March to WrestleMania X
1994
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993
SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993
1993
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE Survivor Series 1993
WWE Survivor Series 1993
1993 ★ 6.5
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE SummerSlam 1993
WWE SummerSlam 1993
1993 ★ 6.1
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1993
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1993
1993
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Bluegrass Brawl 1993
SMW Bluegrass Brawl 1993
1993
Dr. Tom Prichard
WCW SuperBrawl III
WCW SuperBrawl III
1993
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992
1992
Dr. Tom Prichard
SMW Volunteer Slam 1992
SMW Volunteer Slam 1992
1992
Dr. Tom Prichard
TWA Summer Sizzler
TWA Summer Sizzler
1990
Dr. Tom Prichard
TWA Spring Spectacular
TWA Spring Spectacular
1990
Dr. Tom Prichard
WWE Houston Wrestling: The Paul Boesch Retirement Show
WWE Houston Wrestling: The Paul Boesch Retirement Show
1987
Dr. Tom Prichard

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