The Viking Raiders

"Viking Raiders (professional wrestling)" redirects here. For the videogame, see Viking Raiders. For the general use, see Vikings and Longship.
"War Machine (professional wrestling)" redirects here. For another wrestler, see Big Boss Man.
The Viking Raiders
Erik (left) and Ivar (right) in January 2017
Stable
MembersHanson / Ivar
Raymond Rowe / Rowe / Erik
Sarah Logan / Valhalla (valet)
Name(s)The Viking Experience
The Viking Raiders
War Machine[1]
War Raiders[2]
Billed heights6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) – Hanson/Ivar
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) – Rowe/Erik
Combined
billed weight		552 lb (250 kg)
DebutFebruary 22, 2014
Years active2014–present

The Viking Raiders are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Raymond Rowe Jr. and Todd Smith, better known as Erik and Ivar respectively and are managed by Sarah Logan who also performs under the name of Vahalla. The team is currently performing in WWE on the Raw brand, but are currently inactive since May 2024 due to various injuries.

Rowe and Smith were previously known as War Machine as Rowe performed under his real name while Smith wrestled as Hanson. They are known for their time in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH) under the names, where they won the IWGP Tag Team Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship.

Outside of Ring of Honor, they have also worked for multiple independent promotions in the United Kingdom and United States, including Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW), Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), Progress Wrestling (Progress) and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). War Machine have also competed in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah). They signed with WWE in 2018 as War Raiders and began performing on the NXT brand where they won the NXT Tag Team Championship once. In April 2019, they were drafted to WWE's Raw brand under the name The Viking Experience as Erik (Rowe) and Ivar (Hanson). They quickly changed the team's name to The Viking Raiders and won the Raw Tag Team Championship in October of the same year.[3]

  1. ^ "News - ROH Wrestling". www.rohwrestling.com.
  2. ^ "WWE NXT Results for 4/23/19 Johnny Gargano vs Roderick Strong, Street Profits vs War Raiders • Page 2 | Fightful Wrestling". Archived from the original on 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  3. ^ Khan, Steve (15 April 2019). "WWE Raw results: The Superstar Shake-up begins". f4wonline.com. Retrieved 16 April 2019. War Raiders are now The Viking Experience. They've also been given new individual names: Erik (Rowe) and... Ivar (Hanson).