10 Wrestlers Who Were Recklessly Dangerous
3. Mabel
The obvious and inherent dangers of professional wrestling make it tough to apportion truckloads of blame on the truck-sized men that occasionally throw their weight around with a little too much vigour. As a trained professional in any industry a mistake is as unlucky as it is unfortunate. A high profile blunder worse still.
In WWE, injuring the champion remains the most unlucky and most unfortunate. Injuring The Undertaker is probably a close second. Managing both in the space of a month? A top-line death sentence.
Mabel managed the unfortunate brace in 1995, butchering a push few felt him worthy of anyway. Ignoring a specific request from Diesel to watch his back area in their SummerSlam main event, he dropped his mammoth 568lb frame full across 'Big Daddy Cool's fragile spine anyway. The Undertaker's broken orbital bone may have resulted in the brilliant protective mask debuted at that year's Survivor Series, but he'd presumably have rather avoided the painful knock suffered by an errant fist and exacerbated by Mabel's almighty leg drop.
His cards were allegedly marked before he damaged 'The Deadman' - Diesel apparently talked Vince McMahon out of firing Mabel following the SummerSlam calamity, months before his eventual 1996 release.