Mark Young

Todd Overbow

Young signed with the World Wrestling Federation as a wrestler in 1986. In his debut, he lost to Steve Lombardi on November 11, 1986 in Spokane, Washington. He wrestled intermittently for the next few months on house shows, facing opponents such as Barry O and Jimmy Jack Funk. His last match was against Funk in Calgary, Alberta Canada on February 14th, 1987. He made a brief return to the World Wrestling Federation in March 1988, when he teamed with David Stoudemire to face The Islanders on the March 20 episode of *Wrestling Challenge*. Young would also appear on *Prime Time Wrestling* in a tag match against Demolition, and later faced Greg Valentine on the April 17 edition of *Prime Time*.

In February 1989, Young, as **Vince Young**, would join World Championship Wrestling. Given a breakdancing gimmick, Young defeated Trent Knight in his debut on the February 18, 1989 edition of WCW's *Saturday Night* show. Although he was not defeated in his tenure, Young abruptly left WCW following a March 23 match against Kendall Windham in Harrisonburg, Virginia after receiving a full-time position with the World Wrestling Federation.

Now a contracted performer with the WWF, **Mark Young** made his return on June 27, 1989, when he defeated The Brooklyn Brawler in a match that aired on the international version of *Wrestling Challenge*. Young was positioned as an opening match talent that was roughly parallel to Paul Roma, Steve Lombardi, Brady Boone, and Tim Horner. Young was given a strong initial push, scoring victories against Lombardi, Barry Horowitz, Bill Woods, and Bill Brundt that summer.

That August, he began his first house show series, where he was paired off against Boris Zhukov. Young entered into a losing streak and was winless against the Russian, but rebounded to put together a lengthy series of house show victories over Barry Horowitz. Young also appeared on American television, teaming with Tim Horner and Jim Evans in tag-team matches against The Rougeau Brothers and The Brain Busters. In November, he was paired against Earthquake in the latter's initial run of house show matches, and gained his first victory on American television when he pinned Barry Horowitz on the December 4 edition of *Prime Time Wrestling*.

Young was less successful in 1990, and spent the first two months of the year on a losing streak before finally defeating Rico Fredrico in a house show match in West Palm Beach, Florida on March 2. He would face "The Duke of Dorchester" Pete Doherty later that month, and would defeat him in each encounter. On television however, Young was now firmly established as an enhancement talent, losing to heels like Bad News Brown, Earthquake, Mr. Perfect, Al Perez and Rick Martel. Following a loss to Ron Garvin on September 8, 1990, Young left the company once more.

Young returned to the WWF in January 1992 under the monicker **Todd Overbow**. His first match was in a dark match on January 27, 1992, before *Wrestling Challenge*. Teaming with Khris Germany, they faced the Harris Twins in a tryout for the latter two wrestlers. Overbow appeared on American television for the first time in over a year when he faced Intercontinental Champion Roddy Piper on the February 15 edition of *WWF Superstars*. Later that month, he faced Papa Shango on the February 23 edition of *Wrestling Challenge*.

Wrestling once more as **Vince Young**, he made a return to World Championship Wrestling when he teamed with Al Jackson in an unsuccessful effort against The Barbarian and Dan Spivey in a match that aired on the August 22, 1992 edition of *WCW WorldWide*.

On February 25, 2016, Young passed away.