The War Raiders persevered through plenty of adversity.
On the December 16 episode of WWE Raw, interference by Damian Priest helped The War Raiders (Erik and Ivar) defeat The Judgment Day (Finn Balor and JD McDonagh) to win the WWE World Tag Team Championship.
In a digital exclusive, The War Raiders commented on their win. Ivar first highlighted the setbacks they had dealt with up to this point. He then noted that they were in his hometown, so the win was especially emotional.
"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," Ivar said.
Erik likewise brought up the challenges they had endured, as they were both told at different points that they might never wrestle again. He emphasized that they persevered, and he could not accurately put what that meant to them into words.
"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," Erik said.
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