A professional competitor from 1998 until 2013, he competed for the WEC, Bellator, Shooto, Affliction, the Tokyo Sabres of the IFL, King of the Cage, and Tachi Palace Fights.
Although his first professional bout was in 1998, in June 2006 Young decided he wanted to begin training mixed martial arts full-time.
Young fought at their first event, Affliction: Banned, losing by second-round armbar against UFC veteran Mark Hominick.
While training part-time, Young worked in post-production at a video editing company, making the feats of others come alive on the screen.
An avid video game player, Young has also had a lifelong fascination with cars, building and competing with them in street races while in high school.