Mabel was a big man standing at 6'9" and nearly 500 pounds. In addition to being known as Mabel, he went by other names in WWE: Viscera and Big Daddy V. He went through a few different transformations in his career. He was most known for winning the 1995 King of the Ring, which was a big surprise because he was mostly a tag wrestler up until that point. He went on to have one of the worst PPV main event matches ever against Diesel (Kevin Nash) at SummerSlam 1995. He was employed by WWE for three different stints from 1996 to 2008 not because he was a great in-ring performer. It was because he was huge. That's what pro wrestling is. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you can do in the ring. All they care about is what you look like when the lights are on. As long as you can do a few big moves during a match that's enough. Sad but true. In the later years of his career his gimmick changed to that of the large man that loved the ladies because in Vince McMahon's world, fat guys doing things like that is entertaining. It's why he books them to dance too. At least he was able to show some personality as Big Daddy V, but it didn't mask the fact that he was still putting on terrible matches. To his credit he was athletic and more mobile than a lot of the other guys you're going to read about. He just wasn't very entertaining in the ring.
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