10 Worst WWE Transformations In Recent Memory

NXT went through a raft of world-class signings from the independent scene during its golden era. Month after month, massive names would appear in the TakeOver crowd and when Hanson and Rowe came along, excitement was rife for the bulldozers to join NXT’s phenomenal tag team division.

As the War Raiders, Hanson & Rowe showcased why they were arguably the world’s best tag team, brilliantly combining strength with agility to deliver some insanely good contests against Aleister Black & Ricochet and The Undisputed Era. They were a spectacle act: a smashing duo of modern-day vikings, who should have taken the main roster by storm. Sadly, they suffered a management-imposed identity crisis, becoming the Viking Experience on Raw, a name so terrible, WWE embarrassed them beyond repair from day one. Switching them to the Viking Raiders straight away only exposed the calamitous mistake, but it solved an issue that shouldn't have existed.

Great acts don’t need to be tampered with. This is the mistake WWE so often repeats when calling up NXT stars. Their carnival feud with the Street Profits was the 2020’s worst and should never have happened the way it did. If the main roster had any appreciation or understanding for why the company actually signed Hanson & Rowe in the first place, then they could have been WWE’s most dominant heavyweight team since the Legion Of Doom or Demolition. As it stands, they are essentially dead and buried, as their monstrous presence has been neutralized.