Smokey 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.
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 the summer of 1995. 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 went on to compete as
Zip, the on-screen brother of
Skip as
The Bodydonnas. In the process, he cut off his trademark curly long brown locks into a blond crew cut, to more resemble his storyline brother. Before the formation of the Bodydonnas tag team, Prichard competed under his own name 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, interfering in a match allowing Skip to defeat
Rad Radford, who had been trying to become a Bodydonna himself.
At
WrestleMania XII, 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, Prichard became a trainer for the company, responsible for training such future stars as
The Rock and
Mark Henry, among others. In addition, Prichard made a few appearances as a singles wrestler for ECW, and also co-hosted ByteThis, the WWF's internet talk show.
