10 Wrestler Deaths WWE Completely No-Sells

3. Mabel

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Vince McMahon loved Mabel, for a bit.

Making it all the way to a SummerSlam main event by virtue of a King Of The Ring tournament win in 1995, Nelson Frazer Jr benefitted from being a naturally big guy during a time McMahon didn't want to risk pushing artificially inflated ones. But his Men On A Mission misadventures between 1993-1996 weren't the only times he plied his trade on the industry's biggest stage.

Returning in various guises between 1998 and 2008, Frazer was a reliable pick-up because of (or in spite of?) his gargantuan frame, and was just as adept larking around as a 'The World's Largest Love Machine' as he was flicking the monster switch as Big Daddy V.

He lost his life to a heart attack at 43 in 2014 and high blood pressure and diabetes had been a problem up to that point, but for so many matches and moments of several eras to die with him still scans as strange. A thrown-out wrongful death lawsuit from Frazer's widow Cassandra in 2015 can't have done wonders for the preservation of his name in the moment, but a complete scrubbing ever since reads as a depressing overreaction.

 
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