A few months ago, at the first show from No Fate Pro Wrestling in Vancouver (An incredibly successful and tremendously fun show, by the way) the first wrestler through the curtain was Casey Ferreira. This wasn't a one-off show put on by people who were coming and going. This is a new promotion with a direction and ton of power, run by people who clearly LOVE professional wrestling. Having Ferreira be the first wrestling through the curtain in the history of the new promotion was the choice of people who know what they're doing. You see, each day I wake up as an indie wrestling fan on the west coast and I feel blessed to live in a place so lousy with talent. Walk into any wrestling show in Victoria or Vancouver and you're going to see an endless stream of talent, charisma and passion. With such a high bar being the standard, encountering someone who stands out means something special. You know it as soon as you see them walk to the ring for the first time and engage their opponent for the first time. Casey Ferreira is one of those special people. On that Sunday night in downtown Vancouver, he wrestled other very special wrestler – and past 5 Questions with Rags guest – Eli Surge. It was a bout of hard-hitting strikes and high-flying risks that really encapsulated everything that makes me love professional wrestling. Great crowd connection, chemistry between the wrestlers, technical and devastating moves, and, perhaps most importantly, a story to tie it all together.

“I feel like I'm thinking less and less about moves as I progress. It's really not on mind, not getting me too excited at this point – It's more, at this point, how can I tell a whole match? There are so many fans who realize they love guys because they don't do that many moves. I'll go-go-go, but it's not move-move-move, it's build-build-build-one move. That's what I prefer. The fun part for me is the movement between moves,” Casey reflects, sitting on a bench in the sun in the Victoria neighbourhood of North Park, as preparation for that nights 365 Wrestling show continues a couple of blocks away. His match that night was another thumper, against other fast-rising stud Cole Rivera. It was just the latest entry in a year that is quite apparently ever-more-filled with such occurrences.