Former NXT Stars Matt Lee and Jeff Parker Officially Sign With AEW

Former NXT Superstars Matt Lee Jeff Parker, known collectively as 2point0, are now fully-fledged members of the All Elite Wrestling roster.

AEW president Tony Khan took to Twitter to confirm that Lee and Parker had put pen-to-paper and pledged their future to the company.

Lee and Parker made their AEW debuts on the August 4th edition of Dynamite on TNT -- exactly 4o days after they were released by WWE. On that show, the Canadian duo (formerly known as Ever-Rise) teamed up with free agent Daniel Garcia to take on the team of Eddie Kingston, Jon Moxley, and Darby Allin in a losing effort.

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On the latest edition of Dynamite, Lee and Parker took on Darby Allin and the legendary WWE Hall Of Famer Sting in a thrilling opening match in which they double-teamed 'The Icon' through a table. They came up short once again but clearly impressed Tony Khan over the course of their five AEW matches.

Matt Lee and Jeff Parker (who were known as Matt Martell and Chase Parker in NXT) were released by WWE on June 25 along with several of their colleagues, allegedly as a result of budget cuts necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

New's of 2point0's signing was actually leaked by Chris Jericho via his podcast the day before it was officially announced.

"Today, I've got Matt Lee and Jeff Parker. They have debuted in AEW as 2.0, although they didn't tell me that during this recording, it was a secret. They were Ever-Rise, the former WWE NXT tag team that just signed with AEW, and once again, changed their name to 2.0. The signing was such a secret, we didn't even talk about it when we sat down in my backyard to do this interview a few weeks ago," Jericho said on the latest episode of Talk Is Jericho, on which Lee and Parker were guests.

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