2020-11-11

The Real Kamala Harris – The Ugandan Giant

Unlike the new pretender, the original Kamala Harris was a giant among men.

Before US presidential candidate picked up a filthy creep as a vice-presidential running mate, there was another Kamala Harris. He was billed as the Ugandan Giant in the WWE. He was a giant of a man and fought with the biggest names in the business including Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan and Undertaker. He played his part as the Ugandan to perfection. In survivor series, the Undertaker put him in a casket and hauled him away. Normally fearless, he acted deeply terrified by the Undertaker.

He was paid almost nothing compared to the Undertaker. Kamala left and returned to the WWE several times. His complaint was low pay. He performed with several other wrestling companies. He drove trucks and even sold chairs he built by hand. He wrote a book to pay for his medical bills. His legs were amputated because of diabetes. The WWE did not help him because his name was included in a lawsuit brought by some wrestlers against the WWE. He contracted coronavirus in 2020 and died from his comorbidities.

The wrestler Chris Jericho has been in the WWE off and on. He has worked with its competition such as All Entertainment Wrestling (AEW) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In his podcast, he says that these upstart wrestling entertainment companies, which somehow survive the near-total domination of WWE, take good care of their performers. They arrange hotel reservations and taxi pickups. In contrast, the alleged wrestling ‘superstars’ of the WWE have to pay their own transportation bills. When working for the WWE, he and his other wrestling mates have to drive hundreds of miles to show up at performance venues. It seems that it is this kind of penny-pinching that made WWE a profitable business and helped it eliminate almost all competition.