The War Raiders came to Monday Night Raw in the WWE Superstar Shake-Up and had their name changed to The Viking Experience. Hanson and Rowe also had their individual names changed to Erik (Hanson) and Ivar (Rowe).
Fans on Twitter made fun of The Viking Experience name for the next week.
You know what happens when WWE changes War Raiders name to The Viking Experience? Huh? You know what happens?
WWE…. #RAW pic.twitter.com/D1Ty665Ox4
— Rocky Balboa (@SportsQueen_5) April 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/TheDivaBank/status/1117955366632009728
I’m 40 years old. The Viking Experience is the worst tag team name of my life time. Goodnight. #RAW #SuperstarShakeup
— Andrew Goldstein (@AngeGold) April 16, 2019
Interestingly, the reason for the name change was because Vince McMahon didn’t like War Raiders. He was originally going to change it to The Berzerkers and then when they came out, they were the Viking Experience.
The Viking Experience might be a naff name, but if it leads to the return of the berserker, I'm down with it. #WWE #VikingExperience pic.twitter.com/uIAcwKQfMJ
— Wrestling Noir (@ThyStevePearson) April 16, 2019
The name change lasted one week.
Now, heading into Monday Night Raw tonight, they have a new name and are now known as The Viking Raiders. WWE did not announce the change but just made it on their own website and apparently hope fans won’t notice the change.
NAME CHANGE!!
The have changed Viking Experience to Viking Raiders
…….baby steps #WWE pic.twitter.com/sDBByeyl9t
— Turnbuckle Topics 🎙 (@TT_4You) April 22, 2019
The Viking Raiders are still the NXT tag team champions so there is no word on how WWE will deal with this since they were moved to Raw without losing the titles.
As a matter of fact, their bios still list them as NXT tag team champions although their names have officially changed to Viking Raiders and their individual names are also changed under their NXT bios as well.
So I guess the Viking experience was a complete fail lol 😂 I’m ok with the Viking raiders sounds better @WWE pic.twitter.com/FWQgv1XTG0
— Macho man Royal savage👑🕹🎧🎮 (@RoyalBossGaming) April 22, 2019
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