Viscera (wrestler)

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Nelson Frazier, Jr.
File:BigDaddyV.jpg
Born (1972-02-14) February 14, 1972 (age 52)[1]
Memphis, Tennessee, United States[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)King V
Big Daddy V
King Mabel
Mabel
Nelson Knight
Viscera
Billed height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)[2]
Billed weight500 lb (230 kg; 36 st)[2]
Billed fromHarlem, New York, United States[2]
Debut1993

Nelson Frazier, Jr.[1] (born February 14 1972) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).[2]

Throughout his career he has held championships in a number of promotions, including the top titles of the United States Wrestling Association off-shoots Memphis Wrestling[3] and Memphis Championship Wrestling,[4] and the World Wrestling Council promotion of Puerto Rico.[5] He has also held the Hardcore[6] and World Tag Team[7] titles of WWE, the company where he has spent the majority of his career.[1] Also in WWF, Frazier was the 1995 King of the Ring.

Career

World Wrestling Federation (1993–1995)

Main article: Men on a Mission

Frazier began his professional wrestling career under the ring name Nelson Knight, comprising the team The Harlem Knights with his partner and kayfabe brother Bobby.[1] The team wrestled in the United States Wrestling Association and the Pro Wrestling Federation (PWF), winning the PWF Tag Team Championship on two occasions,[8] before being signed by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in July 1993.

Upon coming to the WWF, the Harlem Knights were given a new gimmick: Nelson (Frazier) became Mabel, Bobby became Mo and they were given a rapping manager named Oscar.[9] Together the new team, dubbed Men on a Mission, was introduced to the WWF audience through vignettes, which was fairly standard practice at the time, that attempted to get the team across as three African American men trying to make a positive change in inner city neighborhoods—hence the team name. The group, constantly clad in purple, debuted as solid faces,[10] in the tag team division and held the Tag Team Championship once, but only for two days.[7]

In 1995, Mabel and Mo turned on and attacked Oscar, becoming heels.[10] As a heel, Mabel received a push as a singles wrestler, culminating with his winning the King of the Ring tournament in May,[11] with Mo acting as a manager. During his tenure as King of the Ring, Mabel was addressed as King Mabel, with Mo similarly having his name changed to Sir Mo,[10] and wore a championship belt which he had personally designed and created by belt maker Reggie Parks. The belt, proclaiming the wearer to be "King of the Ring", is a one of a kind, as the World Wrestling Federation has never created a belt for the King of the Ring.[12] Immediately after becoming King, Mabel challenged WWF Champion Diesel at August's SummerSlam, but lost.[13] Following that loss he became involved in the ongoing Yokozuna versus The Undertaker feud, helping Yokozuna attack a downed Undertaker and taking turns dropping legs across the Undertaker's face with Yokozuna until they (kayfabe) fractured his orbital bone following a match, putting him out of action for two months.[14][15] A month after his return, the Undertaker defeated King Mabel in a Casket match at In Your House: Season's Beatings pay-per-view.[16] Mabel's last appearance with the company came at the Royal Rumble the next month, when he participated in the Royal Rumble match.

Post–WWF (1995–1998)

Bookings with the World Wrestling Federation and the Puerto Rico based World Wrestling Council. In WWC, he engaged in a feud with Carly Colon, during which the Universal Heavyweight Championship was "held up" following a match between the two of them before Mabel won the championship and held it for a month.[5]

He was released from the WWF in early 1996 and spent much the next two years in Tennessee wrestling for the United States Wrestling Association, which went through a number of changes during his stay to become Memphis Championship Wrestling and Memphis Wrestling. While there, he captured the top title twice.[3][4]

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1998)

On November 1 1998 Mabel made a one time, surprise appearance at ECW November to Remember as a FBI member with Ulf Herman attacked Tommy Rogers and Chris Chetti until Spike Dudley made the save.

World Wrestling Federation (Second run; 1998–2000)

Main article: Ministry of Darkness

On July 6 1998 Mabel made a one time, surprise return to the World Wrestling Federation to challenge, and lose to, the new King of the Ring: Ken Shamrock.[17]

He made an official return in 1999, first appearing at the pre-show for the Royal Rumble, before appearing on the show itself, on which he was "kidnapped" by The Undertaker, his Acolytes (Bradshaw and Faarooq) and Mideon.[18] The next night, he was re-christened Viscera,[1] and he began acting as the Ministry of Darkness' enforcer, adopting a more gothic look in the process, including white-out contact lenses, a bleached mohawk, and a black bodysuit.[19]

After the July 1999 break up of the Ministry, the Viscera character 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 once[6] before he was released from his WWF Contract again in August 2000.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and the independent circuit (2003–2004)

In March 2003, Frazier, using his Nelson Knight name, made a surprise appearance at a weekly NWA: Total Nonstop Action pay-per-view at the side of Ron Killings.[20] He appeared again the next week,[21] but did not stay with the company beyond that.

He made a number of other independent appearances, including returning to the Memphis area where he wrestled for Memphis Championship Wrestling, holding the Southern Heavyweight Championship once, and Southern Wrestling Alliance, holding that company's top title as well.

World Wrestling Entertainment (Third run; 2004–2008)

2004–2008

Viscera, the World's Largest Love Machine.

Frazier, returning to the Viscera name, returned to the World Wrestling Federation – now renamed World Wrestling Entertainment – in September 2004. In his first appearance, he and fellow former Ministry of Darkness member Gangrel surprised and attacked their one–time stable leader, The Undertaker, on behalf of former Ministry Acolyte John "Bradshaw" Layfield.[22] After just two weeks on SmackDown!, however, he was moved to the RAW brand.[23]

In his first three months on the RAW brand, Viscera mainly wrestled on RAW's sister show HEAT, only making sporadic appearances on the actual RAW show.[1] He had his first major angle on the brand in April 2005 when he was aligned with Trish Stratus to take part in a feud against Lita and her (kayfabe) husband Kane.[24] While they were working together, Viscera and Stratus were featured in a segment during which he attempted to "seduce" her, only to be rebuffed until he "took care of" Kane.[25] That segment began a gimmick change for Viscera, who transformed in to "The World's Largest Love Machine"; he started wrestling his matches wearing pajamas and making overtly sexual gestures in the ring. He was also put into an angle where he was smitten with RAW ring announcer Lilian Garcia and tried different tactics to seduce her every week.[26][27] At the June Vengeance pay-per-view Garcia reciprocated, proposing to him in the center of the ring, only to get turned down and left in the ring crying when The Godfather arrived with a number of his "hos" to show Viscera what he would "be leaving behind" if he got married.[28]

After the Lilian Garcia storyline ended, Viscera was paired with the like minded "ladies man" Val Venis to form the tag team V–Squared. They teamed together for nearly nine months, mainly on HEAT. They challenged for the World Tag Team Championships on a few occasions, but they never held the titles.[29] When Venis was put out of action with a legitimate injury in April 2006, Viscera went back to singles wrestling. His first storyline back on his own was an attempt to reconcile with Lilian Garcia, only to be interrupted and attacked by Umaga during his proposal.[30] Two weeks later, when Garcia was (legitimately, accidentally) knocked from the ring apron by Charlie Haas, spraining her wrist;[31] the incident was worked into a storyline. Haas and Viscera began fighting over Garcia[32] – after Haas apologized[33] – and then both men turned on her and formed a tag team when she declared she only wanted to be friends.[34] However, the team was split when Haas was put back together with Shelton Benjamin to reform The World's Greatest Tag Team.

On June 17 2007, Frazier was sent from the RAW brand to ECW in the supplemental section of WWE's draft.[35] Three weeks later, he debuted on ECW's weekly television program repackaged as Big Daddy V, a powerhouse "hired gun" character (with elements of Vader's old WWF gimick) in the employ of Matt Striker, arriving just in time to help Striker in his feud with The Boogeyman.[36] After dispatching the Boogeyman, Big Daddy V defeated Tommy Dreamer in the ECW brands Elimination Chase to become the #1 contender for the ECW Championship at No Mercy,[37] but lost to CM Punk by disqualification at the pay-per-view when Matt Striker interfered in the match.[38] He then became embroiled in a feud with Smackdown's Kane. Big Daddy V had his first loss by pinfall in the traditional Survivor Series match at Survivor Series 2007 by Triple H and Jeff Hardy after a Double DDT. He was part of Team Umaga for the match. He also formed a tag team with SmackDown! wrestler Mark Henry, feuding with the Brothers of Destruction. Frazier was part of the Elimination Chamber Match at No Way Out, ultimately being eliminated after a DDT from The Undertaker.

He wrestled his last match In WWE against CM Punk on ECW, which was a Money in the Bank Qualifier.

As part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Big Daddy V was drafted to the SmackDown brand. Due to his release he never got to debut on Smackdown!. [39] Nelson Frazier was released from his WWE contract on August 8 2008.Frazier will be a playable wrestler on WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009.[40]

Acting career

Frazier will be making his film debut in 2008's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus, co-starring Rip Torn and Ian Ziering.

NWA (2008-present)

The NWA sent out a press release noting a new ring name, King V. [41]

In wrestling

  • Entrance themes
    • "Men On A Mission" – as Mabel (WWE/F)
    • "The Lyin' King" – as King Mabel (WWE/F)
    • "Advance of The Zombies" – as Viscera (WWE/F)
    • "Another Way Out" (WWE) – 2004
    • "Love Machine" (WWE) – 2005–2007
    • "Calling All Cars" from the Gotham production library – as Big Daddy V (WWE) – 2007–2008

Championships and accomplishments

  • Music City Wrestling
    • MCW North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[4]
  • Ozarks Mountain Wrestling
    • OMW North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[42]
  • Pro Wrestling Federation

References

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  10. ^ a b c Schrader, Bob. "The Irresistible Force". WWE.com. Retrieved 2007-07-03. Viscera used to be known as Mabel. [...] He started as a friendly rapping giant Then Mabel shocks everyone by winning King of the Ring, loses the rapping and becomes KING Mabel.
  11. ^ a b "King of the Ring 1995 results". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
  12. ^ "WWF "King of the Ring" belt made for "King" Mable (Viscera)". Reggie Parks' Belts. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  13. ^ Martin, Finn (1995-09-25). "Feel the Heat (Summer Slam 1995)". Power Slam (15). SW Publishing.: 18–19.
  14. ^ "The Undertaker biography". SLAM! Sports. Retrieved 2007-07-03. Mabel would further anger 'Taker when he planted a legdrop across the Undertaker's face, forcing "the Phenom" to wear a protective "Phantom of the Opera"-like mask.
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  17. ^ "WWE RAW Results (1998)". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-07-03. July 6, 1998 [...] Ken Shamrock b Mabel
  18. ^ "WWF Royal Rumble 1999". Online Onslaught. Retrieved 2007-07-03. The lights come back on and Mideon and the Acolytes have taken Mabel out of the ring. Taker meets Mabel in the aisle and tells him something before the Ministry takes him away.
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  20. ^ "NWA: Total Nonstop Action PPV results - March 26, 2003". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
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  32. ^ "RAW results - June 26, 2006". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
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  36. ^ "ECW on Sci Fi results - July 10, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  37. ^ "ECW results - October 2, 2007". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
  38. ^ "No Mercy 2007 results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
  39. ^ "Official 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft Results". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
  40. ^ "WWE releases six Superstars, referee Nick Patrick". WWE. 2008-08-08. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
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  42. ^ Westcott, Brian. "NWA - NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE OMW - OZARKS MOUNTAIN WRESTLING/NAASW - NORTH AMERICAN ALL-STAR WRESTLING NORTH AMERICAN HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY". Solie. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
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  44. ^ "XWF - XTREME WRESTLING FEDERATION HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY". Solie. Retrieved 2008-07-19.

External links

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