Timothy Well Timothy Alan Smith ( September 8 , 1961 – January 9 , 2017 ) was a American professional wrestler , better known by the ring names Rex King and Timothy Well . He wrestled in several promotions , including the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) . Much of his career was spent wrestling as a tag team with Steve Doll throughout his career . While in WWF , they were known as Well Dunn . Career . Southern Rockers / Well Dunn . Smith gained his first championship success while competing for Pacific Northwest Wrestling ( PNW ) . He formed a tag team with Steve Doll , who was competing as one - half of the Southern Rockers with Scott Peterson . Smith , competing as Rex King , replaced Peterson . The new Southern Rockers won the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship four times from 1989 to 1990 . King also has success as a singles wrestler , as he won the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship and NWA Pacific Northwest Television Championship during this period . King and Doll left PNW in February 1990 to compete for the United States Wrestling Association ( USWA ) . They held the USWA World Tag Team Championship three times together before Dunn returned to PNW . King remained in USWA , took on a new partner , Joey Maggs , and won the title belts for a fourth time . He then moved to Puerto Rico to compete for the World Wrestling Council ( WWC ) . Teaming with Ricky Santana , he won the WWC World Tag Team Championship twice . Doll then joined King in Puerto Rico , and they won the tag team title together on June 24 , 1992 . After vacating the title due to a controversial match , King replaced Doll with Ray González to win the championship for a fourth time . King and Doll were not apart for long , however , as they returned to the USWA and won the tag team titles for the fourth time as a team and King ' s fifth time altogether . In 1993 , they joined the World Wrestling Federation , where the WWF renamed the team : Smith became known as Timothy Well , and Doll became Steven Dunn ; together , the team was known as Well Dunn Their ring attire led wrestling author RD Reynolds to state that the team was " proof positive that bow ties and thongs do not match " . Well Dunn competed against such teams as The Smoking Gunns and Men on a Mission . Shortly after their debut , however , Well sustained an injury and the team left the WWF . Well Dunn returned to the WWF in 1994 and continued facing the promotions top teams , including The Headshrinkers , who held the WWF Tag Team Championship . When the title was vacated later that year , Well Dunn entered a tournament to determine the new champions . They were eliminated in the first round by Bob Holly and the 1 - 2 - 3 Kid , however . The team ' s biggest feud in the WWF was with The Bushwhackers . Matches between the teams were featured on the company ' s primary television show , " Monday Night Raw " , as well as a compilation video released by the WWF . Singles wrestler . Well Dunn left the WWF in 1995 after losing matches to several of the company ' s top teams . The team parted ways , and Smith returned to the ring name Rex King . Returning to Puerto Rico , he held the WWC Television Championship twice in 1995 . Later that year , he took the place of Shane Sewell as a member of the Canadian Glamour Boys Tag Team with Sean Morley . They won the promotion ' s tag team title on November 26 , 1995 and held it until the following March . After they lost the belts , Morley resumed teaming with Sewell . King reunited with Doll in 1998 to win the MCW North American Tag Team Championship in Tennessee ' s Music City Wrestling ( MCW ) . Immediately after the match , however , Reno Riggins came to the ring , joined with Doll in attacking King , and took King ' s place as tag team champion . King returned to competing for WWC in Puerto Rico , where he defeated Jose Rivera , Jr . on February 12 , 2000 to win the WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship . While still holding the Puerto Rican title , he also won the Television Championship for a third time , defeating Glamour Boy Shane ( Sewell ) for the belt on March 19 . One week later , he lost the Puerto Rican title , but he held the Television Championship for over a year . In 2002 , King sustained an injury while competing in Puerto Rico and was forced to retire . Personal life . On February 20 , 2012 , the website for World Wrestling Council reported that Smith passed away . A week later , it was confirmed to be false , as Smith gave a interview with Canada ' s Slam ! Wrestling website , confirming he was still alive and well . In July 2016 , Smith was named part of a class action lawsuit filed against WWE which alleged that wrestlers incurred traumatic brain injuries during their tenure and that the company concealed the risks of injury . The suit is litigated by attorney Konstantine Kyros , who has been involved in a number of other lawsuits against WWE . On January 9 , 2017 , Smith died from kidney failure at his home in Greenup , Kentucky . He was 55 years old .