Career
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 1982. He also formed a successful tag team with 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 and Ashura Hara in a tag team match with The Destroyer in Tokyo, Japan on January 3, 1982.
Skip Young had a couple of runs in Puerto Rico with the World Wrestling Council, he went to the ring wearing a hat of a Puerto Rican flag.
On many interviews Skip Young said he loved the Puerto Rican culture. Championship Wrestling from Florida
NWA Florida Bahamian Championship (1 time)
NWA Florida Television Championship (1 time)
NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (1 time) - with Butch Reed
NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) (3 times)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #252 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
PWI Rookie of the Year (1979)
World Class Championship Wrestling / World Class Wrestling Association
NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kerry Von Erich (1)
WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tony Atlas
World Wrestling Council
WWC Television Championship (1 time).
