13 Facts About Jay Youngblood

Jay Youngblood wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions in a tag team with Ricky Steamboat.

Jay Youngblood engaged in a feud with Buddy Rose; at one point, Youngblood claimed that Rose had broken his arm.

Jay Youngblood teamed with Joe Lightfoot as "The Indians", capturing the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship in November 1980.

On June 27,1982 in Maple Leaf Wrestling, Youngblood defeated The Destroyer in the finals of a tournament to win the NWA Canadian Television Championship, becoming the inaugural champion.

Jay Youngblood wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions in a main-event tag team with Ricky Steamboat.

Jay Youngblood even held the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship with Porkchop Cash, Johnny Weaver, and Steamboat.

Jay Youngblood was later defeated by Private Jim Nelson for the title.

Steamboat and Jay Youngblood feuded with Jack and Jerry Brisco, trading the tag team titles with them several times.

Jay Youngblood went to Championship Wrestling from Florida in September 1984, where he and his brother Mark Youngblood captured the Florida version of the NWA United States Tag Championship two times.

Also in 1984, Jay Youngblood wrestled in Puerto Rico for the World Wrestling Council, and in 1985, he wrestled in American Wrestling Association, Memphis, Mexico, and for Pro Wrestling USA.

Jay Youngblood was married at the time of his death and left behind a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Ricca.

Jay Youngblood started to develop abdominal sepsis and kidney failure before suffering a series of heart attacks.

Jay Youngblood was in a coma for two weeks before dying on September 2,1985, in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, aged 30.