Nelson Frazier, Jr.

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Nelson Frazier, Jr. (born February 14 1968 , in Memphis, Tennessee) better known by his stage name of Viscera, is an American professional wrestler currently performing on World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand. He was recognized by wrestling fans by the black, body-length bodysuit he wore to the wrestling ring, his distinct mohawk haircut and demonic facial expressions he normally had. During the summer of 2005, Viscera changed his ring attire (now wearing what WWE commentators refer to as "Pajamas") and was referred to as "The World's Largest Love Machine". He also actively began losing weight, his weight stat on his WWE.com profile even began to make a constant decline. Viscera is still a very large man but now looks lighter than in the past.

Contents

1 Career

1.1 WWE RAW

2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

3.1 Championship succession

4 External links

Career

Frazier first appeared prominently in the WWF as Mabel, a member of the tag team Men on a Mission. Originally a face duo, they were often overlooked in the tag team division. The pair managed to win the titles away from The Quebecers, but lost them back in a rematch two days later. Frazier and partner Mo eventually turned heel after losing a match to the tag team champions The Smoking Gunns. Men on a Mission attacked their former friends after the match and even turned on their own manager, Oscar, when he tried to stop the attack. The team continued to enjoy marginal success, but was unable to regain the titles.

Mabel began to compete primarily in singles matches, winning the 1995 King of the Ring tournament. He quickly adopted the name King Mabel, and would be hauled to the ring on a throne carried by The Hardy Boyz and two other unknown men (Jeff Claims in his autobiography that he almost tripped and dropped mabel Off the Throne). King Mabel would go on to then feud with The Undertaker, after stealing The Undertaker's urn from him. Mabel would be responsible for The Undertaker having to wear a skull-mask in late 1995 into early 1996, after performing a legdrop on September 5th which cracked The Undertaker's orbital bone. King Mabel would also go on to face Diesel at SummerSlam for the WWF Championship title but lost after Diesel capitalized with an off-the-top rope maneuver.

Frazier was released from the company, but made a return as the new enforcer for Vince McMahon and McMahon's faction, The Corporation. His alliance with McMahon was short-lived, however, as he was kidnapped by The Undertaker and "brainwashed" into joining the Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness faction. Renamed Viscera, he adopted a gothic gimmick, complete with demonic contact lenses. After Undertaker's faction disbanded, Frazier remained in the WWF with the Viscera character for a short while, feuding at one stage with Mark Henry before being released yet again.

After being released Frazier toured Scotland, keeping his Viscera gimmick, before returning to America and working mainly for Memphis Wrestling as King Mabel - hinting several times on their programming that he would return to WWE.

Frazier along with Gangrel returned to the WWE ring in late 2004, reprising the Viscera gimmick and being brought in as part of an storyline between the Undertaker and JBL. After losing to the Undertaker on an edition of WWE's SmackDown! program, WWE transferred Frazier onto RAW.

WWE RAW

On November 1, 2004 Viscera re-debuted to WWE RAW as Christian's "one night only Problem Solver", as regular Problem Solver Tyson Tomko was unavailable. Viscera would assault Shelton Benjamin for Christian.

Viscera remained a regular on RAW's sister-show WWE HEAT from that point despite a few appearances on RAW. However, Viscera would defeat Tajiri on the January 24, 2005 edition of RAW in a Royal Rumble Qualifying match. Viscera would enter the Royal Rumble #23 but was eliminated by John Cena.

After this Viscera disappeared from RAW for unknown reasons until March 20, 2005 edition of HEAT when Viscera returned and defeated Simon Dean and quickly became dominant regular on WWE HEAT.

In April 2005, Viscera aligned himself with Trish Stratus and began a feud with Kane. On May 1, 2005 at Backlash, he was defeated by Kane, who had Stratus's rival Lita in his corner. After the match, Viscera splashed Stratus when she berated him for losing. As a result, Viscera has turned face for the first time since his return to WWE, adopting a "500 pound love machine" gimmick closely resembling Mark Henry's "Sexual Chocolate" gimmick. His catchphrase became "I Gots To Have It."

Viscera with hoes.

With Trish injured, Viscera turned his attentions to RAW's ring announcer Lilian Garcia, who he repeatedly tried to seduce while eating nachos. Viscera was eventually successful, winning the affections of Garcia, and his amorous nature led to RAW commentators Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler dubbing him "the 500 pound love machine." But at WWE Vengeance, when Lilian proposed to Big Vis, former WWE wrestler The Godfather made a surprise appearance asked Vis if he wanted to climb aboard the "ho train". Viscera replied "all aboard the ho train!" and left with the Godfather and the hos, leaving a crying Lilian Garcia behind in the ring.

Viscera would go on to briefly feud with Tyson Tomko and The Heart Throbs, teaming up with another "Ladies Man", Val Venis as V-Squared. While wrestling on HEAT, they squashed a number of other tag teams. A few weeks later, they defeated World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch on several occasions.

On RAW, V-Squared got another title shot in a fatal-four way along with The Heart Throbs and the team of Snitsky and Tyson Tomko, only to be squashed by champions Kane and The Big Show.

Frazier was injured on the October 31st episode of RAW, when getting into the ring. Triple H compensated for this by squashing him in their match. Viscera worked through the injury, even competing in an Elimination Chamber Qualifying match, which he lost, on the December 12th edition of RAW.

In January 2006, Both Val Venis and Viscera would be involved in separate comedy bits with Shelton Benjamin's storyline Momma, Viscera had his happen on his return to PPV wrestling at 2006's New Years Revolution in Albany, New York. Viscera started chatting up Shelton's momma and wanted to "spank that ass"; he would go on to be defeated later in the night by Shelton Benjamin with help from momma.

On the January 20th edition of HEAT, Viscera won an entry to the 2006 Royal Rumble by winning a four man battle royal against Tyson Tomko, Lance Cade, and Gregory Helms. Viscera, in turn, drew the 27th entry to the Royal Rumble. After entering the ring, Viscera dry humped and eliminated Matt Hardy and was eliminated ten minutes later by Chris Masters and Carlito after taking a RKO from Randy Orton.

On February 10th, V-Squared was featured in an elimination three-way tag match on HEAT against tag teams of The Heart Throbs, and Tyson Tomko & Snitsky, with the winners of the match earning at a shot at the World Tag Team Championships. V-Squared would win this match with Viscera pinning Snitsky for the final fall. However, V-Squared would fall short of the titles, losing the match to Big Show and Kane on the February 27 edition of RAW.

On the March 27th edition of RAW, V-Squared teamed with Eugene in a three-on-three tag match against three members of the Spirit Squad. They were defeated after Venis was pushed off the top rope by one of the Spirit Squad members who was not participating in the match. After the match, on WWE.com Unlimited Val Venis is shown being helped to the back.

With Val Venis out on injury, Viscera would return to singles competition, competing mainly on HEAT and appearing on RAW mainly during WWE.com Unlimited segments. Viscera would take his singles career further, once again attempting to gain the affections of Lilian Garcia while feuding with Umaga before exploiting a legit incident, involving Charlie Haas accidentally injuring Garcia, to begin a feud with Haas. This feud would develop to see Haas also show an interest in Garcia before she rejected both men and they turned their back on her.

In wrestling

Viscera using Viscagra on Trevor Murdoch

Finishing and signature moves

*Embalmer / Viscera Driver / Sex Drive (Chokebomb)

*VD - Viscera Drop (Big splash)

*Viscagra (Amateur back riding position with pelvic thrusts)

*Standing Samoan drop

*Rolling wheel kick

*Leg drop

*Spinning side slam

*Corner body avalanche

Managers

*Reggie B. Fine

*Lilian Garcia

*Jimmy Hart

*Oscar

*Mike Samples

*George South

*Trish Stratus

Championships and accomplishments

World Wrestling Entertainment

*1-Time WWF World Tag Team Champion (with Mo)

*1-Time WWE Hardcore Champion

*1995 King of the Ring

**Nelson Frazier, Jr. is the first African-American man to win the King Of The Ring tournament.

Other promotions

*2-Time PWF Tag-Team Champion (with Bobby Knight)

*1-Time OMW North American Champion

*1-Time Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Champion

*1-Time XWF Heavyweight Champion

*1-Time WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion

*1-Time USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

*PWI ranked him # 340 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.

Championship succession

External links

["WWE Profile"]
[IMDB Profile]

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