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Viking Raiders Reveal How They Convinced Vince McMahon To Change Their Name

Posted By: Ben Jordan Kerin on Nov 29, 2019

Viking Raiders Reveal How They Convinced Vince McMahon To Change Their Name

On the most recent edition of WWE After The Bell, WWE Superstar Erik of the Viking Raiders recently discussed how himself and Ivar had to convince Vince McMahon to change their name from "The Viking Experience" to "The Viking Raiders" when they were called up to the main roster. 

”We knew at this point we weren't going to be Hanson and Rowe. The primary focus was The Viking Experience. We caught Vince as he was going somewhere else and we pleaded our case about the name. It sounded like a Disney name and there were 10 names we gave him. The last one we gave him was Viking Raiders and he kind of paused on that one. He said they would introduce us as Viking Experience and if they didn't feel it they would rename us to something else.

"But he also put over how much he loves the TV show Vikings and he loves Vikings in general and mentioning our wrestling gear, our armor and Viking details from history. So we felt confident that he liked us and our work - we were happy to hopefully in the weeks to come to get that tag team name changed.”

"I wonder what would have happened if we landed on time and maybe we could have had more input. Thank god the next week came and we were The Viking Raiders. The Viking Raiders is the original name we pitched when we were coming into NXT, funny enough."


Tags: #wwe #viking raiders

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