Earlier this yr, Andre Chase was released from his WWE contract, bringing a five-year NXT run to an end. During an appearance on YouTube channel The Wrestling Classic, Chase revealed that he was aware of a completely different plan before the choice was made to finish his faction Chase University in 2024.
“It was not purported to be the tip of Chase U; it was purported to be the tip of that version of Chase U,” he said.
From the time of Ridge Holland’s introduction to the faction within the spring of 2024, all the way in which up through Holland’s departure and their pair of singles matches on “WWE NXT,” Chase believed the group would proceed with some major changes.
“Creatively, that was the one thing that was laid out to me prematurely, and it happened exactly because it was laid out,” Chase said of the storyline with Holland. “So probably the week before [the feud ends], they tell me, ‘Chase U is not any more, because it is now.”
Chase U 2.0 was purported to be influenced by Old School
The dissolution of the close-knit team hit Chase hard. Still, when Chase U disbanded, there had been a plan in place for Chase to form a new edition of the group, but it surely didn’t occur as initially laid out.
“They told me it was going to be Uriah [Connors], and Kale [Dixon], and BJ Ray,” Chase said. “I used to be going to be Will Ferrell in ‘Old School.’ They were these frat guys who were partying and this and that, and I used to be going to be down on my luck because I had lost the University. … They were going to recruit me, construct me back up.”
The storyline would’ve then seen Chase tackle a few of the more frat-like attributes of his recent teammates, but for various reasons, including injuries, the story didn’t play out because it was planned. Chase ended up working with Connors and Dixon to form a new edition of the group but it surely didn’t meet Chase’s expectation for what would happen.
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