Dakota Darsow Dakota Darsow ( born 1987 ) is an American professional wrestler , currently wrestling on the independent circuit . He was previously signed to World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , working in their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling ( FCW ) , under the ring names Maverick Darsow and Barry Allen . He also appeared with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under his real name . Wrestling facts . Darsow is a second - generation professional wrestler ; his father Barry Darsow has also been professional wrestler . Wrestling career . World Wrestling Entertainment ( 2008 – 2009 ) . In late 2008 , he signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment and was sent to compete in Florida Championship Wrestling . He debuted under his real name in a surprising win over Ian Richardson . He would go on to change his name to Maverick Dakota and wrestled under that name for over a month . He competed in six - man tag team matches , with Brett DiBiase and Tank Mulligan as his tag team partners , losing to Lawrence Knight , Kaleb O ' Neal and Tyson Tarver , but defeating Tristan Delta , Derrick Bateman , and Abraham Washington . In march he would change his name to Barry Allen . After teaming with Jon Cutler and Dawson Alexander Esq . to defeat Abraham Saddam Washington and his Secret Service faction , he defeated DH Smith in a singles match on March 26 . On June 5 , it was revealed that Darsow had been released from his WWE developmental contract . Florida Underground Wrestling . On October 12 , 2010 Darsow debuted for Florida Underground Wrestling and defeated Kennedy Kendrick in his first match . NVUS and 2nd Coming ( 2010 – 2012 ) . Darsow and Kennedy Kendrick teamed up in November calling themselves " NVUS " . In their first match they defeated Jimmy Whiplash and Vindetta . NVUS would be proclaimed as the first FUW Tag Team Champions and would defend their titles against multiple tag teams . They lost their first two title matches against Whiplash and Vindetta and against The Highwaymen ( Butch Long and Marc Mandrake ) but would retain their titles because they lost via DQ or count out . However , in their following matches they would beat their opponents legitimately until they lost them to The Heartbreak Express ( Phil Davis & Sean Davis ) . They would regain the titles back by defeating Kahagas and Sideshow and lost them to the Hunks In Trunks ( Nick Fame and Ryan Sorensen ) . Holding the FUW Tag Team Championship 3 times NVUS was the most hate team in Florida even bringing in former WWE Superstar Shawn Spears to enforce they were a team to be feared . After that losing the title Nick Fame and Ryan Sorensen the team would split and went on to create new tag teams , Darsow would go on to team up with Wes Brisco and called themselves " 2nd Coming " while Kendrick went on to team with JD Maverick . The two teams would go months without incident , however in late 2011 the two teams would feud with each other with both teams gaining wins over each other in both tag team and singles competition . The feud between the two teams would culminate on March 6 , 2012 with Kendrick and Maverick beating Darsow and Brisco in a no holds bared street fight , where the winner would get a shot at the FUW Tag Team Champions . Singles competition ( 2012 – present ) . In the middle of March , Darsow would start feuding with Maxwell Chicago . Chicago would get the best of Darsow on March 13 and a week later Darsow repaid the favour . After the third match ending in a DQ win for Chicago the two would have one more match against each other where the victor would be Chicago . On May 15 , 2012 , Darsow defeated Sam Elias in a FUW Cuban Heavyweight Championship number one contendership match . He went up against the FUW Cuban Heavyweight Champion and former tag team partner , Wes Brisco , in their first match Darsow would win via DQ meaning that Brisco would retain his championship . On June 5 , Brisco would defeat Darsow and Nick Fame in a three way match for the Cchampionship . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2011 , 2012 ) . On June 23 , 2011 , Darsow made an appearance on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ' s " Impact Wrestling " television show , losing to Zema Ion in a three – way first round match of a tournament for a TNA contract , which also included Federico Palacios . Darsow returned to TNA on the July 5 , 2012 , episode of " Impact Wrestling " , where he was defeated by Flip Cassanova in a TNA X Division Championship tournament qualifying match .