On April 27, 2016, Matt Martel and Chase Parker made their debut for WWE's developmental branch NXT, losing to the Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson).
They made an appearance as enhancement talents playing two French-Canadian local competitors named Jean-Paul and François on the April 30, 2018 episode of Raw, losing to The Authors of Pain.
On February 11, 2019 the WWE announced that Parker and Martel were part of the newly signed recruits at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. On May 1, 2019, they performed in a dark match before the NXT taping at Full Sail University. On the September 4, 2019 episode of NXT, Martel and Parker competed in a losing effort against Tyler Breeze and Fandango. On the September 25 episode of NXT, the duo, now dubbed "Ever-Rise" faced Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch in a losing effort, and again to Rinku Singh and Saurav Gurjar. On May 22, 2020, they made their debut on 205 Live, once again losing to Lorcan and Burch. Ever-Rise picked up their first victory in WWE on the June 12 episode of 205 Live, when they defeated Leon Ruff and Adrian Alanis, establishing themselves as heels in the process. Following this, Ever-Rise would become regulars on 205 Live and would make occasional appearances on NXT. In early 2021, Ever-Rise took part in the 2021 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, but were eliminated in the first round by the Grizzled Young Veterans.
On June 25, 2021, Ever-Rise were released from their WWE contracts.