"Sweet Brown Sugar" Skip Young Passes Away

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Galton "Skip" Young, who also worked as Sweet Brown Sugar alongside eventual WWE and WCW star Butch Reed, passed away on Sunday in the local Dallas, Texas area.

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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 the National 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 1982. 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 and Ashura Hara in a tag team match with The Destroyer in Tokyo, 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 with Kerry Von Erich in 1980, Young was little used by Texas promoter Eddie Graham due to his declining popularity although he would later win the WCWA Tag Team titles with "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas in 1987.

Championships and accomplishments

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)

Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Brown_Sugar

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