RIP to one of my favorite big men in pro wrestling.
That Kamala gimmick was a double-edged sword. It took off for him unlike all his previous gimmicks but it also put an immediate ceiling on just how far he was ever going to go in the business based on how
the whole gimmick was at it's core.
This is the Frank Frazetta image that gave Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett the idea for the Kamala the Ugandan Giant character
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And here's the debut vignette they shot for him on Lawler's farm: