[1] He spent the next several years wrestling on and off in various independent promotions in the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast region, during which time he helped set up rings and other maintenance, until the late 1990s.
[2] In one of his earliest matches for the promotion, Featherstone was disqualified in a wild bout against Johnny Dowe in Ben Salem, Pennsylvania when he hit referee Mike DiMuzio.
[4][unreliable source] That same month, he took part in a 4 Way Dance with Master of Disaster, Jake "The Machine" Davis and "Epic" Cashis Carter in Ben Salem on August 28, 2001.
[6] At the end of the month, he and Spazman Anthony won the NWL Tag Team Championship from The Highwaymen (Leslie Leatherman and Jake "The Machine" Davis) on December 28, 2002, although their alliance lasted a few weeks when Featherstone was forced to surrender the belts back to Leatherman and Davis when Anthony no-showed a scheduled title defense a week later.
They quickly won the HoPWF Tag Team Championship from Snatch Haggis & Shawn Patrick in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania October 4.
[10][11] When their successors, Nikolai Volkoff & Morgus the Maniac, were stripped as champions for failing to defend the titles within a 60-day period, Old School regained the belts in a tag team match against R.D.
[16] On March 19, he and Scott Vaughn lost the HoPWF Tag Team Championship to The Super Destroyers (A. J. Petrucci & Doug Stahl) in Newville, Pennsylvania.
[2] Five months after losing the HoPWF belts, they beat NWL Tag Team Champions The Goodfellos (Shorty Smalls & Deuce Donnatelli) for the titles in Waynesboro on September 10.
They would hold onto the titles until November 19, 2005, when they were defeated by then HoPWF Tag Team Champions The Goodfellos in a 3 Way Dance with John Rambo & Headshrinker Samu in Newville.
On February 24, 2006, the NWL Tag Team Championship was vacated when Crucial Impact (Doken & Harlen Kano) failed to appear for a scheduled title defence in Hagerstown.
Earlier that month, he and Shorty Smalls lost to Brooklyn Panther & Chris Cline in a match for the vacant HoPWF Tag Team Championship.
Later that year, Featherstone teamed with Corey Bush to beat Harlen Kano & Viper at a show for International Championship Wrestling's "Collision Course" held at the Barber Fitness Center in Quantico Marine Base, Virginia, on September 13, 2006.
Theirs was the opening match for a card featuring Virgil, Doink the Clown, Norman Smiley, Disco Inferno, Kip James and Rick Steiner.