In 1986, he and high school friend Brian Knobbs formed The Nasty Boys, a tag team that initially wrestled out of Memphis, Tennessee.

[citation needed] On June 1, 1990 Sags received an tryout with the World Wrestling Federation, falling to Tugboat on a house show in Fort Myers, FL.

They turned face in the fall of 1992 to feud with Jimmy Hart's Money Inc. over the tag team titles, but were unable to recapture the gold.

[citation needed] They left the WWF for WCW in 1993 and were managed by Missy Hyatt, who helped lead them to world tag team titles.

Hyatt later resigned as their manager, and they went on to feud with Harlem Heat, The Blue Bloods, and the team of Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck.

[6][7] On January 4, 2010, The Nasty Boys made an appearance on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's TNA Impact!, feuding with Team 3D.

[8] On the January 21 edition of Impact!, the Nasty Boys competed in their first match for TNA, defeating the team of Eric Young and Kevin Nash.