Ivar discusses his current run as a singles competitor.
Since late 2023, Ivar has been on television as a singles wrestler while his long-time tag team partner, Erik, has been out of action due to injury.
During his run, Ivar has impressed fans, picking up wins over the likes of Otis, Chad Gable, and Julius Creed.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, Ivar noted that he expected to spend his entire run in WWE as a singles performer.
"It’s really exciting. I think I talked a lot about when we got hired, we got hired as a package deal. So I’ve always expected that we were just going to do tag stuff the whole time we were in WWE. I started wrestling in 2001. So I did a bunch of stuff as a singles wrestler before. But when we got hired, we were a tag team. All those goals I had when I was younger as a singles wrestler just pushed way in the back of my head ‘cause I wasn’t thinking about it. Now all of a sudden, he gets hurt and I get this opportunity, I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah. I’m a singles wrestler. I can do this.’ It’s exciting to see the fans now be like, ‘Oh, wow. He is a singles wrestler.’"
Ivar went on to talk about how the fans are surprised to see his ability as a singles wrestler.
"It’s really, really, really exciting. It’s exciting for me, it’s exciting for them. It’s also like, ‘Oh, wow, they haven’t seen this. I know what I can do, but they haven’t seen what I can do. None of it. Oh, man.’ So I just love going to the ring every week and hopefully surprising people, turning some heads."
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