adminAs Kamala “The Ugandan Giant” James Harris took his lumps in the ring from such pro wrestling legends as Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. But that’s nothing compared with the challenges he now faces as a down-on-his-luck double amputee. But Harris (64), of Senatobia, Missouri, is refusing to let life’s takedowns pin him to the mat for good.
“I don’t want people to feel sorry for me because I’m Kamala,” he says in a video produced by Bleacher Report. “I will always be Kamala.”
A chance meeting in 1982 with wrestling promoter Jerry Lawler transformed him into Kamala, the 2-metre 150kg cannibalistic head-hunter whose painted face and painted lips would send child wrestling fans running away from him when they saw him.
Harris tells Bleacher Report in a lengthy story that he once pulled a gun on Andre the Giant in the locker room when they got into a fight.
His fame grew when he grappled Hulk Hogan at Madison Square Garden.
But the good times didn’t last after he left Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation. He fought 648 matches in a 30-year career, Bleacher Report says.
Harris was diagnosed with diabetes in 1992 but did little about it. In the fall of 2011 the disease forced doctors to amputate his toes, feet and left leg. A few months later his right leg had to be cut off due to the disease. “When I came home and I would look down, I would cry,” Harris says in the video. — Fox News.
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