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Young wrestled in eight different decades, appearing at World Wrestling Entertainment events even into her 70s and 80s. Young dreamed of wrestling on her th birthday, but she died at age 90 in Young was a natural athlete, playing softball on Tulsa's national championship softball team and as a kicker for her high-school football team.

She became interested in wrestling after her brothers joined the highschool team and taught her several moves. Young's father abandoned the family when she was little, leaving Lillie Mae to keep the family fed throughout the Great Depression of the s. They were extremely poor, and once she became old enough, Young worked at a cotton mill to help support her family.

Burke started her career fighting men on the carnival circuit in the mids and became the first well-known American female wrestler. Underwhelmed with Burke's performance, Young asked for a match-up with the world champ. Although Burke's manager and husband, wrestling promoter Billy Wolfe, refused, he agreed to give the teen a tryout and sent two of his top female wrestlers to Sand Springs.

After Young defeated them, Wolfe agreed to sign her on, although she did not immediately join his crew. It was not known when Young first began wrestling; while the date is sometimes cited, some wrestling historians believe that she did not start full-time professional wrestling until , when she was 18 years old. Once Young began wrestling, she quickly assumed the role of the villain, dishing it out with her brutal, heavy-handed maneuvers and then taking the fall in the end.

It's the heel that carries the whole show. I've always been a heel and I wouldn't be anything else but.

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Young was always the blonde vixen, tormenting and disgracing her opponents and forever attempting to upstage the competition. Fans hated her so much that wrestling promoters had to cover the ring with chicken wire before her matches because crowd often pelted her with rotten eggs and vegetables. The name of the maneuver paid homage to Young's Oklahoma roots.