10 Wrestlers Who NEED To Get Out Of WWE

3. The Viking Raiders

Lacey Evans WWE
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Erik and Ivar are living the same booking cycle over and over and over again in WWE. Creative heats them up for a few weeks/a month, then they're fed to babyfaces, humbled and have to start all over again. Y'know the worst thing about this trend? They're treated like borderline enhancement talent in between it all too.

That's painful to watch, but it keeps happening to them.

Last summer's "Vicious" paint job preceded the re-arrival of Sarah Logan, who was then subsequently renamed Valhalla. That has done sweet f*ck all for The Raiders though. They exist on the outskirts of the tag team division in 2023, and it'll be a fight to get back into that inner circle any time soon.

The Viking Raiders of 2K23 are a far cry from the marauding War Machine that earned plaudits from all comers in ROH, New Japan and on the independent circuit pre-WWE. Getting out would be a risk financially, but it'd be rather rewarding creatively.

 
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