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Viscera (wrestler)

American professional wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ317374
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Nelson Lee Frazier Jr. (February 14, 1971 – February 18, 2014) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE) in the 1990s and 2000s under the ring names Mabel, Viscera, and Big Daddy V. A former WWF World Tag Team Champion and WWF Hardcore Champion, he won the 1995 King of the Ring tournament and subsequently challenged for the WWF Championship in the main event of that year's SummerSlam.

Early life

Frazier grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, where he attended Eastern Wayne High School and took part in amateur wrestling in the ninth grade. He studied commercial art after finishing high school.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1991–1993)

Frazier began his professional wrestling career under the ring name "Nelson Knight", as one half of the "Harlem Knights" tag team with his partner and storyline brother Bobby (Robert Horne). They wrestled in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) and the Pro Wrestling Federation (PWF), twice winning the PWF Tag Team Championship in 1992, before signing with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1993.

World Wrestling Federation (1993–1996)

Debut, Tag Team Champion (1993–1994)

Upon entering the WWF, The Harlem Knights were given a new gimmick: Nelson became Mabel, Bobby became Mo, and they were given a rapping manager named Oscar. The new team, dubbed Men on a Mission, donned colorful gear and were introduced to WWF audiences in June 1993, through vignettes portraying them as three African American men trying to make a positive change in inner city neighborhoods, establishing themselves as faces. Men on a Mission made their pay-per-view debut at Survivor Series on November 24, teaming with The Bushwhackers (Luke and Butch) to defeat Bam Bam Bigelow, Bastion Booger and The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) in a 4-on-4 Survivor Series elimination match.

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