The April 15th, 2019 episode of WWE RAW aired live from the Bell Centre in Montreal, QC, Canada. It was the first night of WWE’s Superstar Shake-Up. Here are 9 takeaways from the show:
8War Raiders Debuted As The Viking Experience
The Revival teamed with “The Viking Experience”, formerly known as War Raiders, in a 8-man tag match against Hawkins, Ryder, Ricochet, and Aleister Black. Hanson’s name is now “Ivar” and Rowan is now simply referred to as “Erik”.
Ivar and Erick controlled the match early and isolated Hawkins in the middle of the ring. The Revival then took their turn beating the hell out of Hawkins. Ryder finally tagged in and attacked Dawson in the corner. Ivar and Erick took back control and hit Zack Ryder with the Fallout for the pinfall victory.
The Viking Experience sounds like a name from a generator online that you’d use because you cannot think of a name for your fantasy football team. It is idiotic and Hanson’s name being ridiculously changed to “Ivar” makes it even worse. Dropping “Cien” Almas from Andrade’s name I can slightly understand. I can even try to ignore the dumb creaking sound WWE added to Aleister Black’s entrance, but this is so bad that it deserves to be relentlessly mocked.