- Skip Young
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name=Skip Young
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names=Sweet Brown Sugar
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birth_place =Houston, Texas ,United States
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debut=1979
retired=|Skip Young, also known as the masked Sweet Brown Sugar, is an American professional wrestler who competed on the Southeastern regional promotions during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s in Florida Championship Wrestling,
World Class Championship Wrestling and theNational Wrestling Alliance .After making his debut in Florida Championship Wrestling, Skip Young originally wrestled as the masked Sweet Brown Sugar winning the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship three times between 1979 and 1982cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=4th Edition 2006 | id=ISBN 0-9698161-5-4 ] . He also formed a successful tag team
Butch Reed in the Florida region winning the NWA North American Tag Team titles in April 1982.During the early 1980s, he also toured Japan most notably facing
Genichiro Tenryu andAshura Hara in a tag team match with The Destroyer inTokyo, Japan on January 3, 1982.After leaving the Florida region in 1984, Young began wrestling unmasked in the Texas-area where he began teaming with "Pistol" Pez Whatley and feuded with the PYT Express (Koko Ware and
Norvell Austin ), during the mid 1980s. However, despite prior success teaming withKerry Von Erich in 1980, Young was little used by Texas promoterEddie Graham due to his declining popularity [Funk, Terry and Scott E. Williams. "Terry Funk: The Hardcore Legend". Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2005. (pg. 85) ISBN 1-58261-991-3] although he would later win the WCWA Tag Team titles with "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas in 1987.Championships and accomplishments
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Championship Wrestling from Florida :*NWA Florida Bahamian Championship (1 time) (First):*NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship (3 times):*NWA Florida Television Championship (1 time):*NWA North American Tag Team Championship "(Florida version)" (1 time) - withButch Reed (Last)*World Class Championship Wrestling | World Class Wrestling Association :*NWA/WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with
Kerry Von Erich (1) andTony Atlas (1)*
World Wrestling Council :*WWC Television Championship (1 time)*
Pro Wrestling Illustrated :*PWI ranked him # 252 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in thePWI 500 in 1991. :*Rookie of the Year (1979):*Rookie of the Year (1977, 3rd runner up)References
External links
* [http://www.oklafan.com/bios/763/profile.html OklaFan.com - Skip Young]
* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/s/skip-young.html Profile at OWW]
* [http://www.kayfabememories.com/Regions/wccw/wccw24.htm KayfabeMemories.com - Regional Territories: World Class Championship Wrestling]
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