Former WWE star Andre Chase recently opened up about the disbanding of Chase U, and why WWE couldn’t explain it to him.
Speaking with former NXT star Duke Hudson on the Between Two Jobs podcast, Chase opened up about Chase U being broken up. The stable was active from 2024-26, and featured a litany of other stars alongside Chase, including Bodhi Hayward, Thea Hail, Duke Hudson, Jacy Jayne, and more. The group was disbanded once in 2024, then reformed in 2025. However, the group disbanded again this year when Chase was released from the company.
According to Chase, he was told that merch had sold well for Chase U, and he never got a concrete reason for its initial disbanding.
“When they tell me what they’re doing, they don’t really tell me why they’re doing it. Which obviously they don’t have to,” said Chase (via Wrestling Observer). “But because I think this is a conversation, I start from a business perspective, from a numbers and a dollars and cents perspective, I started to say I think this is a bad idea.
“At Halloween Havoc, the merch guy Teddy pulls me aside and he goes, ‘Hey, I just wanted to let you know you sold just as much merchandise as Trick and Roxanne, the champions. Now that I think about it, you did that at No Mercy, too. I think Heatwave, you had the highest selling shirt.’”
Chase went on to talk about how the group’s merch sold well, even compared to stars like Trick Williams and Roxanne Perez. Instead of any reasoning, though, Chase was just told that WWE was moving in a different direction.
Chase U broke up without a concrete reason from WWE creative
“So I talk about that. I talk about how we are the highest selling merch. Also, I talk about how good our ratings are, which they already have to know because they book us in five segments a show,” Chase said. “The metrics that they say are important, I’m telling them why we have achieved these metrics. With very little advertising and very little help from them, why does it make sense that we’re selling as much merch as Trick Williams and Roxanne Perez when they’re in every main event, every piece of advertising? It shouldn’t compute and somehow we have done it.
“I’m telling this to the creative team. ‘From a business perspective, can you please tell me why this is a good idea?’ And they can’t. They just say, ‘This is the direction we’re going.’ And that’s when I realized it wasn’t a conversation. They had already made up their minds and I go, ‘Okay. I can’t do anything to change your mind.’ No matter the ratings, no matter the merchandise sales, no matter the reactions, they were just ready to move on.”
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