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War Raiders earn World Tag Team title match on WWE Raw

Posted: Oct 29th 2024 By: CMBurnham

New number-one contenders were crowned on Raw.

The War Raiders (Ivar and Erik) became the new contenders for the World Tag Team titles on Monday’s show, winning a three-way bout over the LWO (Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee) and The New Day. The match’s finish had Kofi Kingston positioning Dragon Lee for the finish. However, Xavier Woods instead went after Mysterio, who was entering the ring. Mysterio dodged, sending Woods out of the ring. Mysterio and Lee gained the advantage over Kingston, but suddenly Chad Gable dragged Mysterio out of the ring and hooked him in an ankle lock. The War Raiders used the opportunity to take out Kingston and pin him to become the new number-one contenders.

It wasn’t clear when the War Raiders would compete for the World Tag Team titles, which are currently held by Finn Balor and JD McDonagh.

After Ivar and Erik spent months on the shelf, they returned as a team on the October 7 edition of Raw, defeating Alpha Academy in the first round of a tournament to determine new number-one contenders for the titles. After being known as The Viking Raiders for most of their main roster run, they reverted back to their NXT name upon their return.