Last June 25, WWE released a total of 14 Superstars from the NXT and 205 Live brands, including Ever-Rise (Chase Parker and Matt Martel). Speaking of Chase Parker and Matt Martel, the former WWE talents recently spoke with Andy Murray of WhatCulture and revealed they were surprised to be released as the team was under the impression that they had their whole careers ahead of them in WWE as they had just signed new contracts with the WWE a few weeks prior to them getting released and they were doing what they wanted to do each and every week on TV.
Matt Martel said:
“Yeah, [we were] surprised to say the least.” “Surprised to say the least. It seemed to us that we had our whole careers in front of us in WWE. We were on TV every week doing what we wanted to do.”
Chase Parker added:
“Since, like, the month of October, we were doing something every week. Especially on NXT, finally getting, like, those… fleshing out those characters, which was always the idea, but it was a slow start.”
Chase Parker then talked about how there always was great communication between everyone from WWE COO Triple H to Shawn Michaels to the producers and another reason Ever-Rise was surprised to be released is due to them working on stuff that same day.
Chase Parker said:
“For our end, there’s always great communication between… whether it be Triple H, or Shawn Michaels or the coaches at the Performance Center, the writing team, the producers. Great communication all around.” “So it was… again, that’s kind of why it comes as a surprise because we were still in the process of working on stuff that day. That day!”
Ever-Rise originally signed with the WWE in January of 2019 as 3.0. Their final match in NXT happened just three days prior to their release, when they lost a Tag Team Match to “Top Dolla” AJ Francis and Ashante “Thee” Adonis of Hit Row. There's no word yet on when Ever-Rise will become free agents as if they were under the standard 30-day non-compete clause as NXT wrestlers often are, then they would be free agents already, but if they are under the 90-day non-compete clause, which a number of 205 Live/NXT wrestlers are, then they would become free agents after Tuesday, August 31st.
