Tom Prichard Thomas Prichard ( August 18 , 1959 ) is an American professional wrestler and author better known as Tom Prichard . He is the brother of Chris and Bruce Prichard . Career . Beginnings . Tom Prichard began his career in Los Angeles , around 1979 , working for Gene and Mike LeBell ' s Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium wrestling promotion , where he held several championships in that organization , including the Americas tag team title with Chris Adams . After LeBell closed the L . A . promotion down in 1982 , Prichard competed in various NWA territories for the next four years before settling in the southeast , where he had his greatest success of his career . Continental Wrestling Federation / United States Wrestling Association . Prichard joined the Continental Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s , and feuded with " The Dirty White Boy " Tony Anthony . Their feud included a very controversial angle , which aired on April 23 , 1988 , where Anthony ' s valet came out with a black eye and begged Prichard to help her , only for Anthony to attack him from behind , cuff his hands behind his back , and hang him . On October 3 , 1988 in Birmingham , Alabama , he defeated Anthony in the finals of a tournament to win the vacant CWF Heavyweight Championship . Prichard lost the title to Wendell Cooley on April 7 , 1989 in Knoxville , Tennessee , but regained the belt on June 23 of that year . He lost the title to Dennis Condrey a month later on July 22 in Dothan , Alabama , before once again regaining it after defeating Condrey on December 6 of that same year . Prichard held the title until the CWF closed later that month . Prichard then moved on to the United States Wrestling Association , first working out of the Texas branch , where he formed a heel stable that included Eric Embry and Steve Austin , managed by Tojo Yamamoto . They feuded with the other top babyfaces , including Jeff Jarrett , Bill Dundee , Robert Fuller , and others . While based out of Texas , Prichard won both the USWA Southern heavyweight championship and the USWA Texas heavyweight championship before the USWA closed the Texas end of their territory in late 1990 . Afterwards , Prichard competed in the Memphis end of the USWA before the opening of Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1992 . Smoky Mountain Wrestling / World Wrestling Federation . Stan Lane and Prichard formed a team as " The Heavenly Bodies " and joined Smoky Mountain Wrestling upon its formation in 1992 , and on April 23 , 1992 , in Harrogate , Tennessee , they defeated The Fantastics to become the first SMW Tag Team Champions . They continued to feud with The Fantastics throughout mid - 1992 , and were finally defeated for the titles on August 8 , 1992 in a barbed wire cage match in Johnson City , Tennessee . The Heavenly Bodies regained the titles two days later , holding them for three months before losing to the Rock ' n ' Roll Express on November 13 , 1992 in a hospital elimination match in Harlan , Kentucky . They traded the titles with the Rock ' N Roll Express three times in a variety of hardcore matches over the following year before Lane left the promotion and retired from the ring . Prichard reformed the Heavenly Bodies with Jimmy Del Ray , and the two competed in both SMW and the World Wrestling Federation , wrestling the WWF World tag team champions the Steiner Brothers at SummerSlam 1993 . On November 24 , 1993 in Boston on the World Wrestling Federation ' s pay - per - view Survivor Series 1993 , Prichard and Del Ray defeated the Rock ' N Roll Express . The Rock ' N Roll Express regained the titles on February 18 , 1994 in Port Huron , Michigan , but lost the titles to the Heavenly Bodies on the following day in Taylor , Michigan . At Wrestlemania X the Boides defeated the Bushwhackers in a dark match . The Rock ' N Roll Express defeated the Heavenly Bodies on April 1 , 1994 in Pikeville , Kentucky in a " Loser Leaves SMW match " , where they then competed in the World Wrestling Federation for about a year , before being released in the summer of 1995 . Prichard fought in a couple of single matches against Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels . They returned to SMW and regained the SMW Tag Team Championship , marking Prichard ' s eighth title reign , on August 4 , 1995 in Knoxville , Tennessee , defeating Tracy Smothers and Dirty White Boy at the Super Bowl of Wrestling . They held the titles until the promotion folded on November 26 , 1995 . After SMW folded , the Heavenly Bodies briefly wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling , until Prichard returned to the WWF . 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 WWF 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 the WWF 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 28 , 1999 , Prichard teamed up with Jeff Jarrett to face against Chyna and Debra on Raw Is War . Prichard accidentally hit Jarrett 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 ByteThis , the WWF ' s internet talk show . Prichard was released from WWE in 2004 . Indies . He went on to wrestle in the United Wrestling Association 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 . Return to WWE ( 2007 – 2012 ) . 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 .