New WWE champions break silence saying they were told they will never wrestle again; shock title change by beating The Judgment Day

The Judgment Day lost a major match and their titles on WWE RAW tonight. Now, the new champions have talked about what they were told and how they were never supposed to wrestle again.

After their win against the Judgment Day, Ivar and Erik spoke to Cathy Kelley backstage.

Erik spoke about the title change and said that they were unbelievably happy to be there. He said that both stars had been told they would never wrestle again and might not even walk again at one point in their careers. Now, they are champions.

"There were points in the last five years, but also in the last 10 years, where both of us were told more than once we will never wrestle again. We might not ever walk again. I might not be able to hold my sons. Through all that, we're still here. Through all that, we have these. I don't think there's anything I could ever say to encapsulate what that means to us as performers, as professionals, or as people," he said.

They defeated Judgment Day's Finn Balor and JD McDonagh to win the World Tag Team Championship. Ivar also discussed how brutal and vicious it had been to get here, and he said it was special to win in front of his family in his hometown.

"It's been a long, long, hard, vicious, brutal, trying road. Not only the last five years but our whole careers. The setbacks, the heartaches, the disappointments and the failures, and the surgeries, and just everything that we have been through and to be here tonight. We're in my hometown, in Boston. We're in front of all my family and my friends. To be here, it couldn't be more emotional and just perfect for me to know that the things that we did got us here today," he said.

The War Raiders have won, and it remains to be seen if Judgment Day comes after them.

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