He took a gimmick and made gold throughout the territories and the WWF. By all peer accounts he was a good man. RIP Kamala, I was afraid of you more than the Undertaker as a kid.
Whenever He was in the NWA back in the early 80’s before He was in Texas working for Fritz Von Ehric at World Class Championship Wrestling He went by Sugar Bear.
Had a great conversation with him backstage at an indie show in Texarkana. He actually spoke English during a match. After the match I asked, "Hey James...since when does Kamala speak English ?" He laughed and replied, "well, Jarvis, I've been in this country for over twenty years. You'd think that I'd have learned a word or two of English by now. What do you think I am ? Some kind of Savage ?" 😉
@John Doe Most pro-wrestlers end up poor and destitute. You either have to be a marketing-genius, a corporate kiss-ass, or a slimy SOB to come out of this business with anything to show for it. Especially from that era. Nowadays wrestlers make far-more and have to spend far-less so they can get out of the business and be alright. I don't find the gimmick of Kamala being "degrading" and I'm and African-American. People need to stop being so damned sensitive and insecure. One person does not define an entire people-group. Kamala _was_ the Ugandan Giant. That doesn't mean everyone from Uganda acts that way or ANYONE from Uganda acts that way. You'd have to be pretty brain-dead to think that way. Maybe there was a guy at some-point in world history from Uganda that acted like a savage. You don't know, and neither do I. All I can do is judge people by how they treat me. I met Jerry Lawler in 2010 at C2E2. He was there selling his artwork as well as signing autographs and taking pictures. He sat down and talked with me for 30 minutes when he *didn't have to* telling me stories about Memphis and Andy Kaufmann (because I asked.) Being screwed out of millions of dollars by Vince McMahon does not make someone "simple-minded." James Harris was a man of his word and he treated others the same way. Vince screwed him big-time. Kamala stated that *Hulk Hogan (you know, the other guy people love to bash all the time) was the one that informed him that Vince was screwing him out of his money. He didn't have to do that. You have NOT followed his whole-career because if you did you would know these things and the term "simple-minded" would never have crossed your mind to type here. You just decided to be an ass today. That's all.
I'm sure you've seen it, but for those who haven't...here's a great collection of them. God, wrestling was awesome back then. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ct-zOyh7hZY.html
Kamala was awesome. On camera, he was huge & fearsome looking, which was exactly what he was supposed to do, and it sold so well with wrestling fans. Off camera, he was the kind of guy you'd want for your neighbor. James Harris, better known as "Kamala," will be missed - there was no one else quite like him.
I really believed Kamala was a Ugandan head-hunter as a kid, and if Kim-Chee and the other handlers lost control of him he would tear the joint to pieces!
Kamala lived in Mississippi. I know because he was my older brother's neighbor for years. Many people didn't know that he lived in Mississippi and most of the video promos were filmed in a Mississippi cotton field.
@@Cthulhoop Im actually smart enough not to follow the left-right paradigm, its much like this here WWF... Both Demonrats AND Republitards are just marionette's anyhow...
Anyone else watching this in 2020 and feel like they're looking into an alternate universe? "Hey Kamala, what's this shit about you missing interviews in St Lewis?" - this is my new favorite Mean Gene line. RIP to both these guys
Kamala *POPPED* for James Barnett/Swahili line! 🤪🤪🤪🤣 And he *WINKS* at the camera 0:14, and he ALWAYS speaks English about how he can't speak English! And then Gene calls his handler...*GOOD FRIDAY!*
They're speaking English in their foreign native tongue sentence structure. In English, we put the adjective before the noun whereas in many foreign languages, they put the noun before the adjective. Example: (Spanish) La Isla Bonita translates in English as The Pretty Island; but if you structure it in Spanish tongue, it translates The Island Pretty.
Vince hardly pays him, he has to drive himself around the country to get a paltry WWF check, then to top it all off, he has to take shit about it from a guy that makes more than him and doesn’t even wrestle… and he’s takes all of this with a smile on his face. 👍🏿
@@DreamstoRealityAutomotiveTV sorry. I can be a bit of a nerd. They do speak Swahili too and that is their native language. I know all this because I have a Facebook friend who is from Uganda
Yo Kamala made it look easy gettin' the last word in on Gene. This is Gold. I could say so much about this clip. One thing is that it depicts the Zeitgeist of big time professional wrestling in the 1980s. And the WWF was the best of them at this time. And to see this clip now...a segment filmed but never really meant to be shown ever...is just awesome.
