Back in the 1990s, King of the Ring was a big deal. Then a relatively new concept, it was used to elevate present and future stars such as Bret and Owen Hart, Randy Savage and Ted DiBiase. However, in 1995, the WWF bafflingly booked Mabel to win the tournament. The man who would go on to become Viscera had debuted two years earlier as part of the Men On A Mission tag team, a pair of hulking, heavyset rappers. It was never a gimmick intended to propel either man to the top, but for whatever reason, the booking team decided that Mabel deserved a push. He defeated Savio Vega to win the crown, but more alarmingly, actually defeated the Undertaker en route to the final. Mabel became the company's top heel and lost a stinker of a championship match to Diesel at SummerSlam, before becoming a mere pawn in Davey Boy Smith's ill-advised heel turn a week later. He (and tag partner Mo) joined forces with Smith and Jim Cornette, attacking Diesel and apparently establishing a new villainous stable. This never came to pass, however, and Mabel's push was killed as quickly as it had begun. The reason for this was reportedly his unsafe working style; he'd actually injured Nash in their SummerSlam encounter with a horribly dangerous sitdown splash.
