
Tom Prichard
Acting
1959-08-18 - Present
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.
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Card Subject To ChangeasHimself

WWE WrestleMania XasDr. Tom Prichard

WWE March to WrestleMania XasDr. Tom Prichard

WWE WrestleMania XIIasBodydonna Zip

WWE In Your House 9: International IncidentasBodydonna Zip

WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better EnemiesasBodydonna Zip

WWE Survivor Series 1994asDr. Tom Prichard
WWE Houston Wrestling: The Paul Boesch Retirement ShowasDr. Tom Prichard

WWE Royal Rumble 1996asBodydonna Zip

WWE SummerSlam 1993asDr. Tom Prichard

The Life And Times of Paul BoeschasHimself

WWE SummerSlam 1996asBodydonna Zip

WWE Survivor Series 1995asDr. Tom Prichard

WWE Royal Rumble 1995asDr. Tom Prichard

SMW Night of The LegendsasDr. Tom Prichard

WWE Survivor Series 1993asDr. Tom Prichard

WWE WrestleFest '95asDr. Tom Prichard

Biography: KaneasSelf

WWE Action Zone!asBodydonna Zip
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994asDr. Tom Prichard
2nd Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Showas

WCW SuperBrawl IIIasDr. Tom Prichard
WWF Mega Matches '95as

ECW House Party 1996asDr. Tom Prichard
SMW Bluegrass Brawl 1993asDr. Tom Prichard

Blood, Brawls and GrudgesasDr. Tom Prichard
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992asDr. Tom Prichard
TWA Spring SpectacularasDr. Tom Prichard
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1993asDr. Tom Prichard
TWA Summer SizzlerasDr. Tom Prichard

SMW Superbowl of WrestlingasDr. Tom Prichard

WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994as

SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993asDr. Tom Prichard
SMW Volunteer Slam 1992asDr. Tom Prichard