The WWE roster is loaded with a wide variety of performers, some of which have a wide range. It’s not uncommon to see comedy segments on WWE programming, and sometimes the company tries new things by pushing more serious acts outside of their comfort zone.
During the pandemic The Street Profits and The War Raiders faced off in a number of different competitions that were not wrestling related. WWE filmed several comedy skits that saw the two teams go toe to toe in bowling, basketball and axe throwing among other things.
Ivar recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about the comedy segments, and he admitted that he thought it was a sign that The War Raiders were on their way out of WWE.
“So it was this whole scary time. I feel like half the roster got fired, the lockdown, and there’s a lot of uncertainty in the whole world. It was a scary time. We were told we were doing it and at first, I don’t know, the first hour or two after we were we were told we were like, Oh, this is not good. This is going to be the precursor to you’re out of here.”
A lot of times when they take serious characters, or historically when you’ve seen serious characters, and then they take a really sharp turn into the comedy stuff. Then they’re doing that for a short period of time and they’re gone. We’re like all right, well this is the hand we’re dealt, so let’s do the absolute best that we can with it and make sure that they can’t get rid of us because we’re so good at what we do, and that’s kind of what we did.”
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