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In the grand spectrum of the wrestling industry, Nelson Frazier, Jr. was nothing substantial.\u00a0 Most people have no idea who Nelson Frazier, Jr. was, including myself, because we remembered him as names such as \u201c(King) Mabel,\u201d \u201cViscera,\u201d or \u201cBig Daddy V.\u201d\u00a0 Some might even classify him as a glorified jobber, since he never held a major world championship, or even a mid-tier championship, and frankly, did his fair share of jobs throughout the majority of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n In spite of his marginally accomplished career,\u00a0the news of Viscera\u2019s passing<\/a>\u00a0still prompts me to write something about it, because the existence of Viscera was always something of a positive note in my life, and to actually lose him now is somewhat of a sour note worth sharing a few words about.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a performer, I really couldn\u2019t possibly have cared any less about Viscera.\u00a0 He was the typical fat guy wrestler who was almost always built up to be something of a monstrous beast for smaller, more normal physique wrestlers to overcome and slay.\u00a0 In the ring, he was slow and arduous as you\u2019d imagine a 400 lb. man to be in an athletic contest, and his arsenal was the typical fat guy array of \u201cknock opponent down and then squish him\u201d and \u201csquish him, get up, and squish him again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But the reason Viscera stuck to me, and stuck to some close friends of mine was a reason completely different and out of the blue.\u00a0 There was a brief period in time around 1999-2000, where we would peruse wrestling websites.\u00a0 Not any official websites, like WWF\u2019s or WCW\u2019s official pages, but supposedly insider and unauthorized websites.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never go to any of these pages again if I can ever help it, because I cited them as major reasons in almost killing my wrestling fandom outright at one point (not to mention the last time I went to one, I got a rootkit).<\/span><\/p>\n However, back in 1999, when these sites were new and fascinating, and claimed to give us hardcore fans an insider glimpse of the wrestling industry, there was once a story that emerged, where the link was something along the lines of a rumor that Viscera had died.\u00a0 This was somewhat believable at the time because the Corporate Ministry had broken up and Viscera had been off of television for quite some time then.\u00a0 But then a day later, another link emerged, where among the blurbs was simply \u201cViscera is not dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know why, but those four simple words stuck with us.\u00a0 Viscera is not dead<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n As the novelty wore off with insider sites, and it became apparent that they were all full of misinformation, whiny smarks making things up to try and get clicks, and other things that really began to disenchant my fandom, it became apparent that whenever things got slow, rumored deaths seemed to be one of the more popular ploys in order to get people buzzing again.\u00a0 It was pretty much the equivalent to whenever people on 4chan make up a rumor about a slightly not-recently-seen actor or celebrity dying, and then the cronies pretending to verify it, to see how many sheep they could trick into believing.<\/span><\/p>\n But even after I stopped going to insider sites, \u201cViscera is not dead\u201d stuck with us.\u00a0 The phrase would be dropped ever so infrequently throughout the last decade, almost as if it were a reminder, as well as a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, the statement is no longer true, and Viscera is now actually dead.\u00a0 It is a phrase that cannot necessarily be used without that ironic, bitter reality that in spite of how amusing it was to us back when we were still in high school, it\u2019s no longer valid.<\/span><\/p>\n So I guess as much amusement the existence, and once alleged non-existence of Viscera once gave us, it\u2019s fitting that he deserves a little bit of respect in passing.<\/span><\/p>\n Viscera might not have had the most lucrative, achievement-filled career, but thinking about it, I honestly do not think it is accurately appropriate to label him as a jobber.\u00a0 If I had to look over his accomplishments, winning the 1995 King of the Ring may very well have been his greatest feat; in spite of the tumultuous era in which it occurred, it was still a tournament that had names such as Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Razor Ramon and Yokozuna in the pool.\u00a0 It should be worth mentioning that none of those names have actually won a King of the Ring in their own respective careers, and they\u2019re all (mostly) considered some of the best in history.<\/span><\/p>\n Jobbers don\u2019t log twelve years of WWE experience, with several more on varying other circuits.\u00a0 He may have lost a generous share of wrestling matches, but jobbers don\u2019t last twelve weeks much less twelve years unless there\u2019s something respectable about them, their work ethic and capabilities.\u00a0 Viscera might not have been the flashiest guy in the ring, putting on twenty-minute clinics that got the fans to stand up in appreciation, but there were obviously reasons why he was pretty much capable of holding down a roster spot and a paycheck for as long as he did.<\/span><\/p>\n Jobbers are men who wrestle on the weekend under ordinary names, wearing ordinary attire, and having no personas.\u00a0 Jobbers don\u2019t provide for their families by wrestling; they do that with their menial day jobs, and wrestle because they\u2019ve got grand dreams or an extremely high excess of physical energy, and want to make a few extra bucks on the side.\u00a0 Jobbers do\u00a0NOT<\/em>\u00a0get to\u00a0roll around in rings with WWE Divas<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Viscera was none of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately now, Viscera\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0dead.\u00a0 He was only 43 years old, and as it\u2019s always said whenever the next wrestler passes, he was way too young to have died so early.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the grand spectrum of the wrestling industry, Nelson Frazier, Jr. was nothing substantial.\u00a0 Most people have no idea who Nelson Frazier, Jr. was, including myself, because we remembered him as names such as \u201c(King) Mabel,\u201d \u201cViscera,\u201d or \u201cBig Daddy V.\u201d\u00a0 Some might even classify him as a glorified jobber, since he never held a … Continue reading The day the joke died<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,129,15,91,54,55],"class_list":["post-38307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-eulogy","tag-nostalgia","tag-og","tag-pf","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38309,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38307\/revisions\/38309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}