7 New Wrestling Champions Who Immediately Did Something Stupid

4. Mabel

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The King of the Ring isn't strictly a championship, but seeing as the newly-minted, mendacious monarch Mabel manufactured an actual belt out of his own purse following his dreadful albeit perversely entertaining 1995 ascension, he gets to feature here.

The Men of a Mission man's coronation was designed to set him up for a sumptuous tie opposite Diesel at SummerSlam, as WWE desperately scraped to create a credible heel for their floundering big champ. Mabel immediately set about squashing his big push with his big tush, injuring the WWE's top star with a sit down splash in much the same way he'd apparently crocked over half a dozen of his colleagues.

So livid was Vince McMahon at Mabel's carelessness - despite how predictable it was - that he was ready to dethrone him straight after the match and send him packing. It was only thanks to the magnanimity of Nash that the purple pachyderm kept his position.

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