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Tommy Young in Charlotte

Eric Stace Photography on the Mid-Atlantic Gateway

He is perhaps the most famous wrestling referee of them all. Tommy Young wore the black and white stripes in Jim Crockett rings for over 15 years and officiated some of the most famous and important matches in NWA wrestling history during those years.

Recently Tommy donned the stripes again to referee the championship match of the Anderson Brothers Classic Tag Team Tournament in Kings Mountain, NC. The next morning he met photographer Eric Stace at the old Charlotte Coliseum (also known as Independence Arena, now known as Bojangles Coliseum) on Independence Blvd. in Charlotte, the site of some of those famous bouts. Eric was kind enough to share a couple of those photographs with the Mid-Atlantic Gateway.

Legendary NWA referee Tommy Young in front of the old Charlotte Coliseum (now Bojangles Coliseum), February 26, 2011. (Photos by Eric Stace.)