War Raiders Break Silence After Huge WWE Title Win
The War Raiders have plenty of reasons to celebrate after the popular team scored one of the biggest wins of their career on WWE Raw.
At Saturday Night’s Main Event, Finn Balor failed to win the World Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat match with the champion Gunther and his former Judgment Day partner Damian Priest. And on Raw things got a whole lot worse.
On the December 16 edition of Raw, Finn Balor and JD McDonagh put the World Tag Team Championship on the line against the War Raiders, and Balor’s past came back to haunt him.
As Balor attempted to retrieve a chair, he found Damian Priest at the other end of it, the distraction was enough to let Erik and Ivar to hit the War Machine on Balor to pick up the win and capture the World Tag Team Championship.
War Raiders Reflect On Career Lows After Huge Win
The win marks quite the turnaround for the team formerly known as the Viking Raiders as both Erik and Ivar have been forced to battle back from serious injuries in recent times. That was at the forefront of Ivar’s mind as he spoke in a digital exclusive about the team’s title win:
It’s been a long, long, hard, vicious, brutal, trying road. Not only the last five years, but our whole careers. The setbacks and the heartaches and the disappointments and the failures and the surgeries, just everything that we’ve been through, and to be here tonight, we’re in my hometown, we’re in Boston, with my family and my friends. To be here, it couldn’t be more emotional and just perfect for me, to know that the things that we did got us here today.
Erik noted that at times both men had been told they’d never wrestle again as he was lost for words trying to explain what the moment meant to him as the War Raiders claimed WWE gold for the first time since 2019:
There were points in the last five years, but also in the last ten years, where both of us were told more than once we’d never wrestle again. We might never walk again. I might not be able to hold my sons. Through all that, we’re still here. Through all that, we have these [titles]. I don’t think there’s anything that I could ever say to encapsulate what that means to us as performers, as professionals, or as people. Ezekiel, Cash boy, Papa did it.