High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Howard (born Thomas Merrett Howard December 26, 1969 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, kickboxer and actor. He is best known for his Green Beret role in K-1 and Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX in Japan. In 1993, Tom Howard began training under Jesse Hernandez and Bill Anderson in professional wrestling, lucha libre and puroresu at the School of Hard Knocks wrestling training school. His first match was against Bobby Bradley Jr. at the Silver Nugget Casino in October 1994. In early 1995, Howard began appearing on NWC (National Wrestling Conference) Television in Las Vegas and quickly became popular wrestling under the name Zuma.