Tom Prichard

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1979–1986)

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 (including a stint as color commentator in Georgia Championship Wrestling (replacing the departed Roddy Piper) in 1982–83) before settling in the southeast, where he had the greatest success of his career. This also included stints for Mid-South Wrestling, Continental Wrestling Association, and Pacific Northwest Wrestling.

Continental Championship Wrestling / Continental Wrestling Federation (1986–1989) Prichard joined Continental Championship Wrestling in 1986, and by 1988, he 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 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.

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 July 1995. The next week he lost to Blackman and December 21 both on Raw Is War. Five Star Wrestling FSW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Smack Johnson George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Verne Gagne Trainers Award (2024) Global Championship Wrestling GCW Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2024 NWA Hollywood Wrestling NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Apollo Jalisco (2), Alberto Madril (2), and Chris Adams (1) NWA Rocky Top NWA Rocky Top Heavyweight Championship (1 time) NWA Wrestle Birmingham NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Pacific Northwest Wrestling NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Brett Sawyer Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling PCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jimmy Del Ray Pro Wrestling Illustrated PWI ranked him # 318 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003 PWI ranked him # 73 of the 100 best tag teams of the PWI Years, with Jimmy Del Ray and Stan Lane in 2003. Ring Around The Northwest Newsletter Tag Team of the Year (1984) with Brett Sawyer Southeastern Championship Wrestling / Continental Championship Wrestling / Continental Wrestling Federation CWF Heavyweight Championship (3 times) NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship (2 times) Smoky Mountain Wrestling SMW Tag Team Championship (8 times) – with Stan Lane (5) and Jimmy Del Ray (3) United States Wrestling Association USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (6 times) USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times) USWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jimmy Del Ray United Wrestling Association UWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time) UWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time) World Wrestling Federation WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Skip WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament (1996) - with Skip

Luchas de Apuestas record

Winner (wager)Loser (wager)LocationEventDateNotesTom Prichard (hair) Jonathan Boyd (championship) Birmingham, Alabama Live event