Beginning in 1994, the World Wrestling Federation started to promote a \u201cNew Generation\u201d of talent to combat their rival organization, World Championship Wrestling, who was promoting older stars that had made a name for themselves in the WWF previously.<\/p>\n
With a lack of stars, WWF focused on highlighting their overall youth that included Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, the\u00a01-2-3 Kid, Razor Ramon, Diesel, among others. This younger generation was significially better in the ring than the older Hogan, Savage, Flair and various other 80’s stars that had landed in WCW in recent years.<\/p>\n
By the time 1995 rolled around, the WWF was in dire need to establish fresh upper card talent. WWF World Champion Diesel seemingly didn\u2019t have a lot of credible challengers on the heel side of the card, outside of Yokozuna and Owen Hart. Thus, the WWF had to take a risk and that risk is highly regarded as being a failure\u00a0of epic proportions.<\/p>\n
That risk involved a popular babyface tag team that had been around since mid-1993. I’m talking about Mabel and Mo, collectively known as Men on a Mission, and also had a manager named Oscar. For two years they chased and briefly held the WWF World Tag Team Championships. Their reign lasted only a few days in 1994 before losing them back to the Quebecers during a tour overseas.<\/p>\n
By the end of 1994, Mo had been dealing with injuries and the popularity of the rap team appeared to dwindle while a tag team named the Smoking Gunns started to garner more and more cheers. So much so, that Mabel and Mo had turned heel on the Gunns on an episode of Wrestling Challenge on March 26th of 1995. The attack also saw Mabel leg drop his manager Oscar,\u00a0writing him out of the\u00a0WWF for good.<\/p>\n
Mo would become more of a manager position\u00a0for Mabel as the idea was to make Mabel into a heel monster as they worked their way into the King of the Ring.<\/p>\n
The top candidates to win the King of the Ring were former WWF World Champions Yokozuna, the Undertaker and former WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels, without a doubt all very big names. To the shock of everyone, Michaels fought to a draw with Kama in the first round, while Yokozuna actually lost to Savio Vega via count out, continuing his fall down the card.<\/p>\n
As for the Undertaker, Taker would lose in the first round to none other than the man I speak of, Mabel, with help from Kama, whom had been feuding with Taker for weeks leading into the event and would continue to do so after the event. Mabel pinning Taker gave him a big win, even if it weren\u2019t to be a clean victory.<\/p>\n
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