The following are highlights of a recent VOC Nation interview with former Men
On A Mission member Mo:
On Mabel (Nelson Frazier Jr.) as a possible WWE Hall Of Fame
inductee: “The one thing that [Nelson Frazier] talked about more
than anything in the weeks before he passed, he wanted to be in the Hall of
Fame. He felt like looking at the way the business is now, and he felt like, in
his heart of hearts, Men on a Mission … had done enough and we had brought so
much to the business because … how [of] many acts have spawned off of just the
Men on a Mission characters … He really felt like we should be in the Hall of
Fame. He would tell me all the time, “Man, if you’ve got anything bad to say
about WWE, anything, just please man don’t say it. Keep it to yourself. Don’t
say it. We deserve the Hall of Fame.”
On WWE still using the Men On A Mission gimmick:
“If you look at 2014 WWE, right now, just about 60% of the gimmicked characters
[or] whatever they have on that TV program right now is a take from either Men
on a Mission or from Oscar’s character in a sense. Just about everybody’s using
some type of rap thing, some type of rap music. Even John Cena comes to the ring
rapping. You’ve got the Usos, now, instead of saying “Whoop there it is” they’re
saying “U-so, U-so,” you’ve got Ron Killings (R-Truth) instead of going “Whoop
there it is” it’s “What’s up? What’s up?.” You know?”
On getting heat because of Oscar: “We met Oscar the
same day we flew up to New York and took a limo to Connecticut. We didn’t click
because Oscar didn’t know about the wrestling business. He knew everything in
the world about the entertainment business but he didn’t know anything about our
business. So, in the beginning we had a lot of problems trying to get him to
realize “We’re going to get heat for this, we’re going to get heat for that,”
and all these different things … He did [get us heat] … Nobody ever knew we
(Mo and Mabel) [were] separate [from Oscar].”
Check out the complete interview at VOCNation.com
