Yehi made his Evolve debut at Evolve 51 losing to Lio Rush.[5] Yehi returned to Evolve in early 2016 in the Style Battle 2016 Tournament Round Robin Challenge losing to Tracy Williams and Matt Riddle.[6] At Evolve 55 he lost to Anthony Nese in a four-way match.[7] At Evolve 56, Yehi joined Catch Point after a loss to Drew Gulak.[8] At Evolve 61, Yehi lost a WWECruiserweight Classic qualifying match to T. J. Perkins.[9][10] Yehi defeated Anthony Nese at Evolve 62 after applying a Koji Clutch after Nese attempted a 450 Splash, this was Yehi's first win in Evolve.[11][12] At Evolve 65, Catch Point defeat Jonathan Gresham, Darby Allin and Chris Dickinson.[13] At Evolve 73, Yehi and Tracy Williams became the Evolve tag team champions for the first time after defeating Chris Hero (replacement for Drew Galloway) and DUSTIN, Tony Nese and Drew Gulak, and The Gatekeepers.[14][15][16] Catch Point successfully defended the Evolve Tag Team titles at Evolve 74, defeating Peter Kaasa and Ricochet.[17]
Yehi debuted for Full Impact Pro at Everything Burns in 2016 teaming with Gary Jay and defeating Aaron Solo and Jason Cade.[18] Yehi defeated Caleb Konley at Accelerate 2016 to win the FIP World Heavyweight Championship.[19] Yehi successfully retained his championship by defeating Aaron Solow at Declaration Of Independence in July, 2016.[20][21] On December 10, 2017, Yehi lost the FIP World Title against Austin Theory at EVOLVE 97.
Independent circuit (2018–present)
In 2018 Yehi debuted with Major League Wrestling (MLW), a promotion owned by former WWE creative team member Court Bauer, which has a weekly televised program MLW Fusion on the BeIN Sports network. During his time, he was a member of Team Filthy.
In 2018, Yehi defeated Simon Grimm in his debut for Black Label Pro.[22]
In 2020, Yehi wrestled a one hour Iron Man Match defeating Jeremy Wyatt in a charity event put on by Journey Pro and Saint Louis Anarchy.
Ring of Honor (2020–2021)
On September 26, 2020 on Ring of HonorTelevision, Yehi made an appearance wrestling Silas Young in the ROH Pure Tournament and defeated Young and On October 17, 2020, Yehi wrestled Tracy Williams in the tournament, but was defeated by Williams, Yehi was eliminated from the tournament. During year 2021 Fred Yehi stopped making appearance's in ROH assuming that that possibly might be a release.