John Barker (born October 25th, 1982 in Houston, TX) is an American professional wrestler better know by his ring name, Brandon Prophet. He has been a mainstay of several top wrestling promotions including IWA Mid-South, Combat Zone Wrestling, Insanity Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Unplugged

Career

While 14 years old Prophet met local promoter, James "Judas" Raffordy at a local gas station, and was given a flyer to local wrestling promotion, Insane Wrestling Alliance. Prophet initially tried out to be the official option 3 news reporter for the Insane Wrestling hotline. Upon leaving what would be his first update he was called back by Raffordy who asked Prophet to appear at lives shows under the gimmick of John Benoit. The gimmick intended to be a comedy gimmick garnared a huge reaction from the local fans in several local promotions and was played off of Prophet obviously lying about being related to WWE wrestler
Chris Benoit.

Within a couple of weeks of the start of his training he was put under a hood and was wrestling for various promotions in the Indiana area as El ChupaCabra. This was done to conceal the fact that he was obviously a younger teen. Upon his debut he specialized in the lucha style of wrestling popularized in Mexico, and was catigorized as a "flippy" wrestler, in sharp contrast to the style that popularized him.

Upon leaving Insane Wrestling, Prophet later reamerged as John Benoit on several of the Indiana indys where he adopted the name's "Preacher" Brandon Young or Brandon Prophet and begain to focus on his ability to mat wrestle, and the futhering of this high flying style and later becoming a deathmatch wrestler.

Insane Wrestling Alliance

Prophet was originally used as a crowd plant, used to antagonize local wrestler Dallas James. The gimmick was hugely over as it was highly kayfabed, and even had spill over effects in many other local promotions. During this time Prophet was reffered to as the Universal Wrestling Coalition, Universal Heavyweight Champion, though the promotion did not in reality run shows. Prophet left the organization before the culminization of the angle, and continued to do random spot shows as El ChupaCabra and occasionally as John Benoit.

Circle City Wrestling ==

Sometime in 1999 to early 2000 Brandon Prophet was brought into the revived version of Circle City Wrestling. He randomly showed up in the crowd with the UWC Universal Championship and berated local wrestlers Violent Ed, Rick Ravage, Simply Spectacular, and Bullet; collectively known as DOPE. Bullet left the group and the angle continued without him. Eventually under the constant verbal bashing DOPE had challenged Prophet to a Barbedwire Baseball Bat match with all three members of DOPE against him, and he accepted.

The culmination saw Violent Ed and Ravage turn on Simply Spectacular and join up with a very bloody Brandon Prophet and begin what was a very successful run for the team under Prophet's guide. At this time the threesome also debuted in local wrestling promotion Anarchy Wrestling Federation, and later Interstate championship Wrestling.

Prophet would eventually no longer appear with DOPE in CCW, taking the UWC Universal Championship, by this time refered to as the CCW Hardcore Championship with him to fueding local promotion AWF.

== Anarchy Wrestling Federation

By late 2000 Prophet had made the jump to AWF and had taken the CCW Hardcore Championship with him, which at this point was renamed the AWF Hardcore Championship. AWF had run several shows in Indiana, and was set to debut in Indianapolis. The show saw a scathying promo from Prophet on local promotions and his desire to no longer be held back by "fat old me who never could work for shit". He then aligned himself with Hillbilly Jed and they set forth to take the AWF Championship that night. The match was a four way which saw Prophet turn mid match and align himself with "Spyder" Nate Webb who would then join Prophet's Gen3X stable.

The show is most noted for Prophet being pulled in on an interview by booker The Man They Call James who claimed on live TV to have trained Prophet in response Prophet responded "Sure if you were a fat black man named Judas then I guess so" and proceeded to leave the arena.

Interstate Championship Wrestling