the source. Of course this one is Wikipedia.
What I remember most about Kamala is that he headlined the last
wrestling show I attended with my grandfather before my grandfather
passed away. (It was Hogan vs. Kamala). My grandfather is the reason I
grew up watching wrestling and still watch it today. I never "started"
watching. I always watched, because he always watched.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:32 PM, dcastanet_jw@rocketmail.com
<dcastanet_jw@rocketmail.com> wrote:
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> KAMALA
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> James Harris (born May 28, 1950) For much of his career, Harris has wrestled under the ring name Kamala, using the gimmick of a "Ugandan Giant".
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> • Finishing moves
> o Air Africa (Running or diving splash)[1]
> • Signature moves
> o Backhand chop
> o Headbutt
> o Overhead chop
> o Savate kick
> o Two-handed chokelift
> o Two-handed forward throat thrust
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> Harris was born in Senatobia, Mississippi and grew up in Coldwater, Mississippi, where his family owned a furniture store. The family collected welfare to help pay the bills.[3] He got into trouble with the local law enforcement for breaking and entering and was asked to leave town.[3] In 1967, he relocated to Florida to pick fruit,[3] where he briefly attended college and worked as a plumber. At the age of twenty-five, Harris moved to Michigan, where he met wrestler Bobo Brazil.
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> Harris then began training as a wrestler under a friend of Brazil's, Tiny Tim Hampton.[3] He moved to Arkansas to continue training, as he wanted to get away from the snow in Michigan.[3]
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> He debuted in 1978, facing The Great Mephisto in his first match. Harris originally wrestled as "Sugar Bear" Harris before adopting the ring names "Ugly Bear" Harris and "Big" Jim Harris.[2]
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> While acquiring a new costume in Memphis, Tennessee, Harris was asked by Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett to adopt a gimmick. Harris agreed, and, together with Lawler, created Kamala
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> Kamala's had several runs in the World Wrestling Federation during the 1980s and 1990s.
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> After a loss to The Undertaker in the first televised Coffin match at Survivor Series in 1992, Kamala left Wippleman and turned face under the tutelage of the newly-ordained Reverend Slick.[5][8] Slick set out to humanize Kamala, on one occasion by teaching him to bowl on a Coliseum Video.[9]
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