Every WWE King Of The Ring Winner Ranked From Worst To Best

23. Mabel (1995)

When you talk about the worst King of the Ring, you would be hard-pressed to come up with someone worse than 1995 winner Mabel.

As part of the babyface tag team Men on a Mission, Mabel was little more than a midcard act, losing to people higher up on the card. But in 1995, he turned heel, won the KOTR tournament and became the WWF’s top heel. Yes, you read that right. Mabel was a top heel a year before Austin 3:16 began to run amok in the company. Mercifully, Mabel’s run would end pretty quickly.

King Mabel would fall to then-WWF Champion Diesel at SummerSlam (just writing that sentence pretty much reveals the sad state of 1995 WWF) and enter into a feud with The Undertaker. The big man managed to injure the Deadman, which pretty much signalled the end of his run as a serious threat.

Less than seven months after winning KOTR, Mabel was buried in an eight-second loss to Diesel on the 1996 New Year’s Day episode of Raw. After a failed entry into the Royal Rumble, Mabel was gone from the company.