Viscera

Mabel

King Mabel

In 1993, Viscera made his way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as **Mabel**, where he began a stable with Mo and their manager Oscar. The new team, dubbed Men on a Mission, was introduced to the WWF audience through vignettes portraying them as three African American men trying to make a positive change in inner city neighborhoods. Clad in purple and yellow, they debuted as solid faces.

At WrestleMania X, Men on a Mission defeated the WWF Tag Team Champions, The Quebecers, by countout, but did not win the belts. On March 29, 1994, they won the titles at a house show in London, England. The Quebecers regained the titles two days later in Sheffield, England.

In mid-1994, Mabel began wrestling more singles matches; he was seen as the spectacle of Men on a Mission due to his size, the "special attraction" that got used to make rising stars look good. He competed in the 1994 King of the Ring tournament, defeating Pierre of the Quebecers in the qualifying round before losing to IRS in the quarterfinals. He then had a match that pit "Rap versus Country" against Jeff Jarrett at SummerSlam, which Jarrett won.

In 1995, after losing a match against the reigning WWF Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns, Mabel and Mo brutally attacked them. Shortly thereafter, they did it again and followed that attack up by turning on Oscar and beating him up, turning them both heel. Mabel dropped his fun-loving, positive personality in favor of adopting a more thuggish image and received push as a singles wrestler, winning the King of the Ring tournament in June. After that, Mabel became known as **King Mabel**, with Mo becoming "Sir Mo", his manager.

After his victory, King Mabel became the top heel in the company and challenged WWF Champion Diesel at August's SummerSlam. However, just before SummerSlam, the WWF made a decision to turn Davey Boy Smith, one of the company's more popular wrestlers, against the fans and replace Mabel as the company's top villain. The turn occurred on the August 21, 1995 edition of *Monday Night Raw*, where Men on a Mission were to wrestle Smith and Lex Luger, who were then known as The Allied Powers. Luger was not at the event, however, and Smith convinced Diesel to be his partner. Smith then attacked Diesel during the match and joined King Mabel and Sir Mo in assaulting him. The attack was called the "Royal Plan" and at least for a period it appeared that Smith, Mabel, Mo, and Jim Cornette were going to be aligned in the future. This never came to pass.

Although he was no longer the main villain in the WWF, Mabel moved to another high-profile feud involving The Undertaker. The rivalry started after Mabel helped Yokozuna, another wrestler managed by Jim Cornette, attack a downed Undertaker. During the course of the attack, Mabel was to hit a series of leg drops on the fallen Undertaker. Instead of landing his leg across the Undertaker's chest as in a normal leg drop, Mabel repeatedly struck Undertaker in the face; this resulted in Undertaker suffering a legitimate fracture of his orbital bone, which put him out of action for two months.

The Undertaker returned wearing a Phantom of the Opera-style mask and, a month later, defeated King Mabel in a casket match at In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings. Mabel and Mo were both released soon after. His last three matches were on the New Year's Day edition of *Raw*, when he was buried in an eight-second loss to Diesel, on the January 6, 1996 edition of *WWF Superstars* when he lost a rematch to The Undertaker in a casket match, and in the 1996 Royal Rumble match where he was the third wrestler eliminated by his former rival Yokozuna.

On July 6, 1998, Mabel made a one-night-only surprise return to the WWF to unsuccessfully challenge the new King of the Ring, Ken Shamrock.

On November 1, 1998, Mabel made a one-night-only surprise appearance at Extreme Championship Wrestling's November to Remember, as a Full Blooded Italians member with Ulf Hermann, attacking Tommy Rogers and Chris Chetti until Spike Dudley made the save.

On January 24, 1999, Mabel made his full-time return, first appearing at the pre-show for the Royal Rumble, then on the show itself, where he was kidnapped by The Undertaker, his Acolytes (Bradshaw and Faarooq) and Mideon. The next night on *Raw*, he was reintroduced as **Viscera**, and he began acting as the Ministry of Darkness' enforcer, adopting a gothic look in the process, including white-out contact lenses, a bleached mohawk and a black bodysuit.

After the July 1999 break up of the Ministry, Viscera floated around the mid-card, frequently teaming with fellow former Ministry member Mideon and becoming part of the burgeoning hardcore division, winning the WWF Hardcore Championship on April 2, 2000 at WrestleMania 2000, and losing it minutes later, in the same battle royal-style match. He also feuded with Mark Henry after body splashing Henry's girlfriend, Mae Young, before he was released from his WWF contract in August 2000.

Viscera returned to the former WWF – by then renamed World Wrestling Entertainment – as a surprise in September 2004, attacking former Ministry of Darkness leader, The Undertaker, with fellow former Ministry member Gangrel, at the command of former Ministry Acolyte, the WWE Champion John "Bradshaw" Layfield. After two weeks on *SmackDown!*, he was moved to the *Raw* brand.

In his first three months on the *Raw* brand, Viscera mainly wrestled on *Raw's* sister show *Heat*, only making sporadic appearances on *Raw*. His first major storyline there started in April 2005, when he aligned with Trish Stratus as part of her feud with Lita and Lita's husband, Kane. While working together, Viscera and Stratus appeared in a segment in which he attempted to seduce her, only to be rebuffed. Stratus implied he would first need to "take care" of Kane. That segment began a gimmick change for Viscera, who transformed into "The World's Largest Love Machine". After losing to Kane at Backlash, he injured Stratus with his *Big Splash* finishing move, angry about her constant belittling of him, turning face in the process for the first time since 1995.

Viscera began wrestling in pajamas and making overtly sexual gestures in the ring. He became smitten with *Raw* ring announcer Lilian Garcia, and tried different tactics to seduce her every week. At Vengeance in June, Garcia finally reciprocated, proposing to him in the center of the ring, only to be turned down and left crying in the ring when The Godfather arrived with many of his hos to show Viscera what he would be leaving behind if he got married. At the Royal Rumble, Viscera competed in the Royal Rumble match, where he was eliminated by Carlito and Chris Masters. At WrestleMania 22, Viscera won an 18-man interpromotional battle royal.

Viscera then teamed with Val Venis to form V-Squared. They teamed together for nearly nine months, mainly on *Heat*. They challenged for the World Tag Team Championship on several occasions, but never held the titles. When Venis was sidelined with a legitimate injury in April 2006, Viscera returned to singles wrestling. He attempted to reconcile with Garcia, but was interrupted and attacked by Umaga during his proposal. Two weeks later, when Garcia was legitimately and accidentally knocked from the ring apron by Charlie Haas and sprained her wrist, the incident was worked into a storyline of Haas and Viscera fighting over Garcia. After Lillian declared she wanted to be just friends, Haas seemingly raked Viscera in the eye, with Viscera feigning to accidentally Samoan slam Lillian. After Viscera gave Lillian the Samoan slam, both men laughed about the incident, in the process turning Viscera heel once again. The team split up when Haas reunited with Shelton Benjamin to reform The World's Greatest Tag Team.

On June 17, 2007, Viscera was sent from the *Raw* brand to *ECW* in the supplemental section of WWE's draft. Three weeks later, he debuted on *ECW on SyFy*, repackaged as **Big Daddy V**, a "hired muscle" character in the employ of Matt Striker, arriving just in time to help Striker in his rivalry with The Boogeyman. After disposing of The Boogeyman, Big Daddy V defeated Tommy Dreamer in the *ECW* brand's Elimination Chase to become the number one contender for the ECW Championship at No Mercy. There, he lost to CM Punk by disqualification, when Striker interfered in the match. He then feuded with *SmackDown*'s Kane. At Survivor Series, Big Daddy V competed in a Survivor Series elimination match where his team lost. At Armageddon, Big Daddy V and Mark Henry defeated CM Punk and Kane. Big Daddy V was an entrant at the 2008 Royal Rumble, where he was eliminated by Triple H. His last pay-per-view appearance was when he participated in the *SmackDown* Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out, but was eliminated first.

He wrestled his last WWE match on March 11, 2008, for an episode of *ECW*, losing to CM Punk in a Money in the Bank qualifying match. In the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, he was drafted to the *SmackDown* brand. Viscera was released from his WWE contract on August 8, 2008, before ever wrestling a match for *SmackDown*.

On February 18, 2014, Viscera passed away.