Tom Prichard

Born: 1959-08-18

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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WWE SummerSlam 1993

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1993-08-30

WWE SummerSlam '93 was the sixth annual SummerSlam. It took place on August 30, 1993 at The...

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WWE WrestleMania XII

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1996-03-31

Shawn Michaels and Bret "Hit Man" Hart battle it out in an epic, hour long Iron Man Match with...

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WWE WrestleMania X

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1994-03-20

WrestleMania returns to the World's Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden! The WWE...

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WWE In Your House 9: International Incident

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1996-07-21

In Your House 9: International Incident took place on July 21, 1996 at General Motors Place in...

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ECW House Party 1996

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1996-01-05

At ECW House Party '96, The Public Enemy and The Gangstas take their rivalry to the streets....

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WWE Royal Rumble 1996

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1996-01-21

Thirty Superstars compete in the annual Royal Rumble with the winner advancing to WrestleMania...

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WWE Royal Rumble 1995

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1995-01-22

The 1995 WWE Royal Rumble took place on January 22, 1995, in the USF Sun Dome located in Tampa,...

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WWE Survivor Series 1993

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1993-11-24

The 1993 WWF Survivor Series took place on Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1993 at the Boston...

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WWE Survivor Series 1995

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1995-11-19

Survivor Series (1995) was the ninth annual Survivor Series pay-per-view. It was sponsored by...

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WWE Survivor Series 1994

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1994-11-23

Survivor Series took place on Thanksgiving Eve, November 23, 1994 at the Freeman Coliseum in San...

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WWE WrestleFest '95

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1995-01-01

The WWE Coliseum Video Event!

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WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1996-04-28

In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies features Goldust defending the WWE Intercontinental...

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WCW SuperBrawl III

as Himself
Released: 1993-02-21

SuperBrawl III took place on February 21, 1993 from the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville,...

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Card Subject To Change

as Himself
Released: 2010-02-13

CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE: PRO WRESTLING'S UNDERGROUND takes you deep inside the underground world...

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WWE Action Zone!

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1997-01-01

WWE Superstars in Action!

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WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994

as uncredited
Released: 1994-11-20

On this USA special, you get to see some of the biggest superstars of the World Wrestling...

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Blood, Brawls and Grudges

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1995-07-31

This two hour DVD release contains wild, bloody matches and brawls from Smoky Mountain Wrestling...

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The Life And Times of Paul Boesch

as Himself
Released: 1994-04-01

Documentary on legendary Houston Wrestling Promoter Paul Boesch produced and aired in 1994 on...

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SMW Night of The Legends

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1994-08-05

Bullet Bob Armstrong, Tracy Smothers and Road Warrior Hawk battle Jim Cornette's team of the...

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SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1993

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1993-11-25

The thunder rolls in the Tennessee Valley as a Tag Team Gang Fight breaks out during a wrestling...

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WWF March to WrestleMania X

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1994-03-13

The biggest stars in sports entertainment are in action on the March to WrestleMania X! This...

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WWE SummerSlam 1996

as Bodydonna Zip
Released: 1996-08-17

The temperature is on the rise as WWE's annual Summer Spectacular comes your way. Shawn Michaels...

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SMW Superbowl of Wrestling

as Dr. Tom Prichard
Released: 1995-08-04

This is the Big One! The biggest stars from SMW, WWE, NWA and more battle it out in the squared...

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WWE Raw

as Dr. Tom Prichard
First aired: 1993-01-11

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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WWE Raw

as Zip
First aired: 1993-01-11

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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WWE Raw

as Tom Prichard
First aired: 1993-01-11

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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WWE Raw

as Dr. X
First aired: 1993-01-11

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

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WWF Superstars Of Wrestling

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-09-06

WWF Superstars of Wrestling was a professional wrestling television program produced by the...

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WWE Heat

as Tom Prichard
First aired: 1998-08-02

WWE Heat is a professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Wrestling...

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Dark Side of the Ring

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-04-10

Finding truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality in the veiled world of professional...

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