10 Times Wrestling Changed Due To Fan Backlash
9. The Viking Experience Become The Viking Raiders
Quality backwards banter emerging from the era defined by it, The War Raiders' WWE call-up coming just a week and a half removed from the night they became made men in NXT was bad enough before a graphic splashed across the screen that instantly relegated them to Raw's meme-of-the-week slot.
Then the champions of the developmental doubles brand after a white hot war with Ricochet and Aleister Black at TakeOver: New York, the newly-christened Ivar and Erik were now the "Viking Experience", robbed of entirely of any synonym for a fight in an effort to get rid of one that perhaps wasn't sponsor-friendly.
The reactions to this objectively lame label were catastrophically reductive.
The following week saw them switched to the moderately-improved Viking Raiders moniker in attempt to force viewers to pay attention to their talents instead whatever the wretched creative that spawned such an appalling name in the first place. It was, again, a misunderstanding of the problem from WWE - Twitter doesn't permit access to any of the old hiding places anymore - but the former Hanson and Rowe were undeniably damaged, and said damage control was immediately required.