R.I.P. Mo (Of Men on a Mission)

[JRH]

https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/20/sir-mo-dead/

Never was a huge fan, but MOM were a fun face team in retrospect.

[David Mantell]

Two days as champions over here. Anything can happen.

(4WIW it did get mentioned by the WWF in America, contrary to popular belief. When they went heel, WWF Magazine did a piece on how the short reign and the downslide afterwards made them bitter.)

Luke Williams is now the last surviving one of the Survivor Series '94 Four Doinks.

[PeteF3]

Yes, the idea that it was an accidental title change has been pretty definitively debunked by all involved parties. I don't know where the story originated but I'm not sure even Maffew has it right without looking at the original book, but it doesn't seem like the type of story that Will & Duncan would have included. 

 

[sek69]

The WWF would occasionally have title switches at house shows in the 90s just to put over that you never know when something will happen (and also a sly way to boost house show sales because, hey you never know when it might happen in *your* town). Hell even Bret won his first world title in a match in Saskatoon that wasn't even aired on TV. 

[sek69]

3 hours ago, PeteF3 said:

Yes, the idea that it was an accidental title change has been pretty definitively debunked by all involved parties. I don't know where the story originated but I'm not sure even Maffew has it right without looking at the original book, but it doesn't seem like the type of story that Will & Duncan would have included. 

 

MOM were not a team anyone would ever consider winning the tag titles. even for a short run. It was legit easier to believe something got fucked up than it was an actual choice the company made. These were still the times where the titles had real meaning, so it was that inconceivable that it would really have been booked that way. 

By the way as fun as their babyface run was, you should look up their heel work in the USWA for a treat. 

[David Mantell]

5 hours ago, sek69 said:

The WWF would occasionally have title switches at house shows in the 90s just to put over that you never know when something will happen (and also a sly way to boost house show sales because, hey you never know when it might happen in *your* town). Hell even Bret won his first world title in a match in Saskatoon that wasn't even aired on TV. 

It got filmed though and was a big story in the Magazine.

The Natural Disasters win and some of the Money Inc Vs Steiners back and forth were examples of the small house shows title changes.  They printed photos of one match from the latter where there was no flash photography rig so it all looked very dull compared to usual WWF magazine photography.

The same thing happened with the Midnight Express Vs Tully & Arn title change in JCP although there is a fancam of that.

[PeteF3]

12 hours ago, sek69 said:

MOM were not a team anyone would ever consider winning the tag titles. even for a short run. It was legit easier to believe something got fucked up than it was an actual choice the company made. These were still the times where the titles had real meaning, so it was that inconceivable that it would really have been booked that way. 

It's not inconceivable at all. They'd just wrestled for the titles at Mania 10. The tag division was pretty much a wreck so it's not like there were other viable challengers to the Quebecers (they had to turn a heel team babyface for that to happen). There had been other quickie overseas title switches before and a number of house show title changes in the WWF the previous year. Plus the switches were acknowledged on television and in the magazine.

Edit: Also, there was a card in-between the two title switches in Peterborough where MOM defeated the Quebecers to retain the belts. If it was an accident, why book a successful title defense before undoing it?

[PeteF3]

The Disasters' title win was at a TV taping and eventually released on Coliseum Video (with the oddity of Jim Ross doing play-by-play of a match that took place almost 9 months before he was with the company). The Steiners' first title win was also at a TV taping but for whatever reason never got a release, even on the WWE Unreleased DVD set which showed the show-closing dark match of that taping.

The Midnights' title win was basically an emergency switch because Arn & Tully gave their notice. I would imagine the plan was to run that program until Starrcade, or at least the December Clash.

[C.S.]

Sad news.

I always wondered why Mo never got another look by WWE. 

BTW, cool interview with Oscar:

https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/oscar-men-on-a-mission/ (presumably conducted before Mo's death)