Hanson

Ring of Honor (2013–2017) Smith made his ROH debut on July 27 a losing effort in a four-corner survival also featuring Brian Fury, Kongo, and Vinny Marseglia. A few months after this, he was announced as the eighth participant in the 2014 edition of the Top Prospect Tournament. He defeated Cheeseburger and Andrew Everett in the opening rounds before going on to win the tournament at Wrestling's Finest by defeating Raymond Rowe in the final. As a result, he earned an ROH World Television Championship match against reigning champion Tommaso Ciampa at the 12th Anniversary Show, but was unsuccessful.

He then formed a tag team with Raymond Rowe known as War Machine. On April 11, 2014, Hanson and Rowe both signed contracts with ROH. On August 22, 2015, War Machine defeated Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) in a non-title match and afterwards challenged them to a match for their GHC Tag Team Championship, a title owned by the Japanese Pro Wrestling Noah promotion. War Machine received their title shot in Japan on September 19, but were defeated by the Killer Elite Squad. On December 18 at Final Battle, War Machine defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) on May 9, 2016, at War of the Worlds. War Machine's final appearance with ROH was on December 16, 2017.

Japan (2015–2018) On September 14, 2015, Hanson and Rowe made their Japanese debuts for Pro Wrestling Noah, teaming with Takashi Sugiura in a six-man tag team main event, where they defeated Suzuki-gun (Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, and Minoru Suzuki). This led to a match five days later, where War Machine unsuccessfully challenged Smith and Archer for the GHC Tag Team Championship.

In November 2016, War Machine made their debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) by entering the 2016 World Tag League. They finished the tournament on December 7 with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals.

On April 9, 2017, at Sakura Genesis 2017, War Machine defeated Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) on June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall, regaining it in a no disqualification match on July 1 at G1 Special in USA. They lost the title to Killer Elite Squad in a three-way match, also involving Guerrillas of Destiny, on September 24 at Destruction in Kobe.

WWE (2018–present)

On January 16, 2018, WWE announced that Hanson had signed a contract with the company and would be reporting to the WWE Performance Center. On the edition of April 11, 2018 of NXT, he and Rowe, dubbed War Machine, made their TV debuts, attacking Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic and Tucker Knight) and the team of Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli. Two days later on the April 13, 2018 edition of NXT, they went on to defeat the team of Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan.

Throughout the beginning of the year, the team of Hanson & Rowe, now dubbed the War Raiders would continue their winning streak, by defeating several tag teams in the NXT division, including The Mighty and Heavy Machinery. At NXT TakeOver: WarGames, War Raiders would team up with Ricochet and Pete Dunne in the main event to defeat The Undisputed Era in the eponymous WarGames match. At NXT TakeOver: Phoenix, War Raiders defeated the team of Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong to win the NXT Tag Team Championship. On April 15, 2019, they debuted on Raw as The Viking Experience under the new ring names of Erik (Rowe) and Ivar (Hanson). The following week, their name was changed to The Viking Raiders. On September 7, 2020 episode of Raw, The Viking Raiders teamed up with Apollo Crews and Ricochet in an eight-man tag team match against The Hurt Business in a losing effort, where Cedric Alexander scored the pinfall over Ricochet. The match was forced to an abrupt ending due to Ivar suffering a legitimate cervical injury during the match. On September 14, Ivar underwent successful surgery to repair a neck injury. Ivar would return to in ring action on April 12 edition of Raw, teaming up with his tag team partner Erik going up against Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander in a winning effort. As part of the 2021 Draft, both Ivar and Erik were drafted to the SmackDown brand.

As part of the 2023 WWE Draft, both Ivar and Erik were drafted to the Raw brand. On the April 9, 2024, Ivar returned to NXT to challenge NXT North American Champion Oba Femi for the title but failed to defeat Femi at Week 2 of Spring Breakin' . At Night 1 of the 2024 WWE Draft, Ivar was drafted to the Raw brand in the supplementary draft. On the May 14 episode of NXT, Wes Lee, Ivar, and Josh Briggs argued over who should get a title match. Femi decided to let the three fight amongst themselves, and a triple threat match between Lee, Ivar, and Briggs was scheduled for the following week, where the winner would face Femi for his title at NXT Battleground. Later that same night, Gallus (Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, and Wolfgang) made their return attacking the three competitors. Ivar ended up injured and out of action for an indefinite period of time.

In October 2024, cryptic messages began airing on Raw featuring Nordic characters that translate to "WAR" to promote the team's return. On the October 14 episode of Raw, Ivar and Erik returned defeating Alpha Academy reverting back to their War Raiders name and gimmick. Two weeks later, they defeated the LWO and The New Day in a Triple Threat Tag Team match to become No'1 Contenders to the World Tag Team Championships held by The Judgment Day's Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh but failed to win the titles after interference from Dominik Mysterio and Carlito. On the December 16 episode of Raw, The War Raiders defeated Bálor and McDonagh to become two-time World Tag Team Champions.

Personal life Todd Smith, along with his teammate Raymond Rowe, is straight edge.

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Championships and accomplishments

Brew City Wrestling BCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Raymond Rowe Chaotic Wrestling Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship (3 times) Lethal Lottery Battle Royal (2007) Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Erik Millennium Wrestling Federation MWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time) MWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Beau Douglas New Japan Pro-Wrestling IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Raymond Rowe NWA New England Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Beau Douglas New England Championship Wrestling NECW Unified Television Championship (2 times) IRON 8 Championship (2010) NECW Unified Television Championship Tournament (2008) New England Wrestling Alliance NEWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Northeast Wrestling NEW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) King of Bethany Tournament (2015) Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No. 108 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016. Ring of Honor ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ray Rowe What Culture Pro Wrestling WCPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ray Rowe WWE World/WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Erik NXT Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rowe World Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Tournament (2024) – with Erik WWE Speed Championship #1 Contender Tournament (February 28-March 19, 2025) Xtreme Wrestling Alliance XWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)