{"id":168441,"date":"2023-11-03T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=168441"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:34:29","slug":"erik-from-viking-raiders-updates-his-injury-status-has-fusion-surgery-on-his-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/11\/03\/erik-from-viking-raiders-updates-his-injury-status-has-fusion-surgery-on-his-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik from Viking Raiders updates his injury status, has fusion surgery on his back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3898589733\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Erik from the Viking Raiders, who last wrestled Sept. 11, underwent back fusion surgery.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;Extremely thankful for Dr. Cordover and his staff at Andrew\u2019s Sports Medicine and to WWE <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> for always making sure I have the best care possible,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Erik_WWE\/status\/1720089878690779147?\">he wrote on Twitter\/X<\/a>. &#8220;C6\/C7 fusion surgery was successful and recovery begins now. I\u2019m excited for my cybernetic upgrades to come fully online.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extremely thankful for Dr Cordover and his staff at Andrew\u2019s Sports Medicine and to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWE<\/a> for always making sure I have the best care possible. <\/p>\n<p>C6\/C7 fusion surgery was successful and recovery begins now. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited for my cybernetic upgrades to come fully online. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uS6cz2bwTp\">pic.twitter.com\/uS6cz2bwTp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erik (@Erik_WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Erik_WWE\/status\/1720089878690779147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Erik&#8217;s partner, Ivar, has been wrestling singles matches since Erik went down with an injury.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/11\/02\/tna-executive-discusses-possibility-signing-cm-punk-says-he-was-a-pleasure-to-be-around-when-he-visited-weeks-ago\/\">TNA executive discusses possibility of signing CM Punk, says he was a pleasure to be around when he visited weeks ago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2023\/11\/02\/aew-signs-ric-flair-to-a-multi-year-deal\/\">AEW signs Ric Flair to a multi-year deal<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2557829267\"><div id=\"pwtor-3382717281\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Erik from the Viking Raiders, who last wrestled Sept. 11, underwent back fusion surgery. &#8220;Extremely thankful for Dr. Cordover and his staff at Andrew\u2019s Sports Medicine and to WWE for always making sure I have <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/11\/03\/erik-from-viking-raiders-updates-his-injury-status-has-fusion-surgery-on-his-back\/\" title=\"Erik from Viking Raiders updates his injury status, has fusion surgery on his back\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/11\/WarRaiders_CharltonMatt_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168442,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168441\/revisions\/168442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}