It was announced by Wade Barrett on commentary during Monday’s episode of RAW that Erik, one-half of the Viking Raiders tag team, is out injured “for the foreseeable future.”
On this same show, Erik’s partner, Ivar, lost a singles match to Xavier Woods. He will now face Kofi Kingston this coming Monday in a “Viking Rules” match.
Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Erik is expected to be gone for several months. He wrote,
“The decision was made because Ray Rowe [Erik] is out after surgery, said to be for at least six months, is to push Ivar as a singles player. In the past when one member of a tag team that’s usually an exclusive team gets hurt, they’ve just not used the other much.”