Erik On War Raiders, His Near-Fatal Motorcycle Accident, Tag Team Champs, Viking Experience

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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https://cvvtix.com - Get your tickets for INSIGHT LIVE in NYC with VIP Meet & Greet! Erik (@Erik_WWE) is a professional wrestler currently signed to WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas to discuss his return from neck surgery, being in a scary motorcycle accident and being told he shouldn't have survived, winning the Tag Team Championships with Ivar, the name changes that included The Viking Experience and The Viking Raiders, facing Mark Hendry in a match on SmackDown in 2006, being married to Sarah Logan (Valhalla) and when fans should expect her to return and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:20.0	Ah yes, welcome back to another audio adventure here on. Start with Chris Van Fleet. Ah, yes.
0:21.2	Welcome back to another audio adventure here on Inside.
0:26.2	I am CVV.
0:27.7	I am Chris Van Fleet.
0:30.0	Hope your week's going well.
0:31.9	Thank you for clicking on this episode.
0:33.9	And thank you for making Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
0:40.4	Hit a tornado DDT on that follow button on Apple or Spotify or pocket casts or whatever the
0:47.2	podcast listening app of your choice is.
0:50.1	I looked at the numbers recently and something like 64% of people who listen to the show
0:55.6	haven't hit the follow button yet.
0:58.2	And you know me, I don't ask for much, but could you just take a few seconds out of your day
1:03.0	today to click the follow button?
1:06.2	It'd be so easy to do.
1:07.3	And then if you have an extra few seconds and that's all it'll take, could you leave a
1:11.2	rating on Spotify or a review on Apple or both? Those two things specifically help the show grow
1:18.7	so, so much. You know Eric is one half of the war raiders. And I was so excited for them when they
1:25.3	won the tag team championships for a second time
1:27.7	at the end of last year. They're a fascinating dynamic. Eric is smaller but deceptively strong. Ivar is
1:36.2	bigger, but deceptively fast and agile. And together, they just make magic in the ring. And my goodness,
1:44.0	what a story Eric has.
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