{"id":163180,"date":"2024-12-19T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=163180"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:58:51","slug":"ivar-on-how-close-he-came-to-retiring-due-to-a-neck-injury-bringing-back-the-war-raiders-name-the-idea-of-breaking-up-his-team-with-erik-and-why-they-stuck-with-their-wwe-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2024\/12\/19\/ivar-on-how-close-he-came-to-retiring-due-to-a-neck-injury-bringing-back-the-war-raiders-name-the-idea-of-breaking-up-his-team-with-erik-and-why-they-stuck-with-their-wwe-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivar on how close he came to retiring due to a neck injury, bringing back the War Raiders name, the idea of breaking up his team with Erik, and why they stuck with their WWE names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-910760340\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Insight With Chris Van Vliet with guest Ivar<br \/>\nHost: Chris Van Vliet<br \/>\nPodcast available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.chrisvanvliet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcasts.Apple.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ivar on bring back The War Raiders name:<\/b> &#8220;When I had this opportunity to do the singles run and it was going well, I had a conversation with Triple H where he said, &#8216;Hey, how about we start pulling back off of the heavy Viking stuff, slowly peeling some of those layers off so we can tell more stories with you.&#8217; I\u2019m like, Oh, that\u2019s great. So as we started to do that I got hurt again. Then Erik and I were ready to come back. I think we were actually scheduled to return in Calgary at Raw. At the last second, they pulled our travel and said that we\u2019re gonna hold off for now. Oh man, here we go. They\u2019re like, &#8216;No, nothing bad. We want to hold off. We want to have better creative for you.&#8217; And then the next week, we got a phone call, &#8216;Hey, how do you guys feel coming back as The War Raiders?&#8217; And we were like yeah that sounds good. That sounds really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On if there was any talk on bringing back their original ring names:<\/b> &#8220;I think at this point we spent five years in the main roster as Erik and Ivar, especially with the Ivar singles run. That\u2019s how we\u2019re known. I think it would have felt like an erase of everything we\u2019ve done. I don\u2019t think we want to erase everything that we\u2019ve done on the main roster. We\u2019ve done some great things including singles run, our Raw Tag Title run that we had, all the stuff that we did with The Street Profits, whether people liked it or not, it\u2019s our history. I loved every second of it, and I don\u2019t think we want to erase that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On a possible War Raiders breakup:<\/b> &#8220;So, no. I\u2019ve answered this a few times before. I mean, New Day\u2019s having their turmoil now, but for a decade on WWE television New Day\u2019s been together and it\u2019s never happened, yet. So I feel like we\u2019re in the same boat, maybe we can do singles things on the side. Maybe we don\u2019t have a story in the tag division and something opens up for, you know, me for the Intercontinental Title, or maybe something opens up for Erik for the Speed Championship, just one below whatever I\u2019m doing [laughs]. But I think we can do things. We\u2019re both great singles wrestlers. I don\u2019t think anyone realized that until I had this recent singles run, and he\u2019s just as good. If just the opportunity is there it\u2019s great, but I don\u2019t see us breaking up. I don\u2019t see us splitting up. I think we\u2019re always gonna be there to support each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On his near career-ending injury and return:<\/b> &#8220;So it started in Brooklyn before WrestleMania, me and Ricochet had a match. I took a European uppercut and I was like, whoa. Did a system check. I\u2019m like, I\u2019m okay. I\u2019m all right. And then after that, I was doing Main Event, Raw, NXT, NXT coconut shows. I was doing some Smackdown dark stuff. I was just on everything. Then it got to that match with Oba Femi for the North American Championship in NXT. We got to the second half of that match and I just lost all strength in my right arm. I couldn\u2019t pick him up, so I just started calling audibles in the ring where I wasn\u2019t going to pick him up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made it through the match, and that was that. The whole time we were checking on medical to see how I was doing. Then after that match was like, okay, that\u2019s no good. Then I went to Discovery Cove that week with my wife just to be like, Okay, I need a break, like a reset. Usually, when we do vacation things, it\u2019s go, go, go. I\u2019m like, I know I need something where I can just relax and just see how I\u2019m doing. We did an animal trek thing where you interact with a parrot. I held my arm up for the parrot to come over and I couldn\u2019t hold my arm up. So that was immediately MRI, we\u2019re getting an MRI right away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we got the results back and that was it, read the results. They\u2019re like, Okay, this is probably the end of your career, to the point where they handed me mental health paperwork to kind of get that rolling, because I already had the double fusion of my neck. So if we\u2019re talking about another level fusion, because the MRI showed I had another herniated disc in my neck the level above. So two levels, C5,6,7, they\u2019re all fused together. This was C4 and 5, so the one directly above, another fusion would probably be the end of my career. So yeah, they were there preparing me for the worst for when I went to see my surgeon. My surgeon had read the result in the MRI, and he pretty much felt the same way that this was it. So for five days, I think this is it. It\u2019s over with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I flew close to the sun and the wings melted. But when I saw him in Birmingham five days later, and he actually had the disc for the MRI and he read the results for the MRI himself. He\u2019s like, &#8216;Okay, we can work with this.&#8217; So with my original injury, I did the suicide dive, and my head got pushed back into my disc, exploded into my spinal cord, which caused the temporary paralysis and then pretty much emergency fusion surgery after that. This one, the herniation happened, instead of shooting in towards the cervical cord, it went out away from it. So he was pretty sure, because my symptoms weren\u2019t too bad, we could probably rehab it without having to do surgery. And if we did have to do surgery, he knew a different surgeon who would go in through the back and just shave the herniation down arthroscopically, which wouldn\u2019t require fusion. So he said on multiple occasions that I dodged a very big bullet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On his current quality of life:<\/b> &#8220;So I\u2019m pretty good. To be fair, I do have permanent nerve damage and nerve pain in my hands, and that will never go away. That\u2019s something I live with. 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