Valhalla (Sarah Logan) discusses her new character and recalls how The New Day helped her come up with it.
WWE released Logan in 2002, but she returned for a one-off appearance in the 2022 WWE Women’s Royal Rumble. In November, she fully returned as Valhalla, a new character that was paired up with the Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar).
Speaking with Rick Ucchino for Cageside Seats, Valhalla discussed the inspiration for her new character and described how Xavier Woods played a big part in it.
“Actually, The New Day were a big inspiration behind the [Valhalla] character. I had been fully into mom mode, farm mode, just doing my thing on my farm. And I know Xavier Woods was like, it’d be really cool if you guys had like a priestess. And they brought it to me and I was like, that is really cool. And I put the character together, and me and Hunter talked, and I just showed up looking ridiculous, like I am. And he didn’t say anything, so I just kept doing it. And that’s, that’s where we’re at today.”
“We all are Vikings in real life. We do like Viking living history and I’m a big fan of all the fantasy dramas and I read a lot of books,” Valhalla said. “You could say I’ve been training my whole life to be this character. I didn’t really have to buy anything. I just gathered things that were in my house and showed up with it.”
The video of the interview can be found here:
The Viking Raiders and Valhalla were selected by WWE RAW in the 2023 WWE Draft.
