{"id":17205,"date":"2018-04-11T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=17205"},"modified":"2018-04-11T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:55:23","slug":"war-raiders-make-nxt-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/04\/11\/war-raiders-make-nxt-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"War Raiders make NXT Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January it was announced that the WWE had signed it&#8217;s latest group of big names to the PC.\u00a0 Among them was the world-renowned tag team and former\u00a0<strong>Ring Of Honor Tag Team\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>IWGP Heavyweight\u00a0Tag Team <\/strong>champions\u00a0<strong>War Machine (Hanson &amp; Raymond Rowe).\u00a0<\/strong>Hanson is 6 ft 3 293 lb. but is a monster capable of pulling off a cartwheel lariat and a moonsault.\u00a0 Rowe is 6 ft 2 258lb. and is the brawler.\u00a0 His array of vicious\u00a0knee strikes will make any man crumble before him.\u00a0 Speculation was rampant regarding potential name changes until tonight.\u00a0 Hanson and Rowe debuted in NXT as the <strong>War Raiders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0War\u00a0Machine<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>made their impactful debut in NXT tonight.\u00a0 Now named the\u00a0War Raiders<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>they made an immediate impression by attacking\u00a0<strong>Heavy Machinery\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tino Sabatelli\/Riddick Moss.\u00a0<\/strong>During the beatdown, Rowe unleashed one of his trademark flying knees.\u00a0 Hanson showed off some powerful lariats.\u00a0 Rowe then PICKED UP HANSON and threw him into the corner absolutely killing\u00a0<strong>Otis Dozovic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The War Raiders then gave the NXT faithful a taste of their finisher (The Fallout).\u00a0 Rowe picked up Sabbatelli for a bodyslam as Hanson launched from the top rope to deliver a Diving Leg Drop to Sabbatelli.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a>&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TagTeamDivision?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TagTeamDivision<\/a> just put on notice by The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WarRaiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WarRaiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RAYMONDxROWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RAYMONDxROWE<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarBeardHanson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WarBeardHanson<\/a>?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5rKNbQzgQU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5rKNbQzgQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/984233219556962309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The Raiders took out both teams leading to a No Contest.\u00a0 Hanson and Rowe have left a trail of destruction everywhere they&#8217;ve been in the past.\u00a0 They start in NXT as they mean to go on with a trail of bodies.\u00a0 What dream matches await the two powerhouses in NXT? hopefully future run-ins\u00a0with<strong> SaNitY<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>The Undisputed Era.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>And potential future feuds with\u00a0<strong>The Usos, The New Day\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>AOP<\/strong> should have any fan salivating.<\/p>\n<p>Having conquered\u00a0<strong>New Japan Pro Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>and put on classic matches all over the world the two behemoths look to take over the WWE.\u00a0 The War Raiders are a special tag team.\u00a0 The physical abilities\u00a0of the two mixed with their size and strength make them a match for any team.\u00a0 The era of the War Raiders is set to descend upon NXT.\u00a0 Expect this duo to carry gold sooner rather than later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January it was announced that the WWE had signed it&#8217;s latest group of big names to the PC.\u00a0 Among them was the world-renowned tag team and former\u00a0Ring Of Honor Tag Team\u00a0and\u00a0IWGP Heavyweight\u00a0Tag Team champions\u00a0War Machine (Hanson &amp; Raymond Rowe).\u00a0Hanson is 6 ft 3 293 lb. but is a monster capable of pulling off a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":17215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,3],"tags":[116,632,2522],"class_list":["post-17205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-nxt","tag-war-machine","tag-war-raiders"],"modified_by":"Rich Iaconi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}