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Post by brutuscheesecake on Oct 10, 2010 21:38:38 GMT -5
I remember seeing this a few times while perusing matches on youtube...but does anybody know who this other guy was who would portray Kamala? He was much shorter and fatter than the original Kamala...but seemed to be a lot more nimble and overall better in the ring.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Oct 10, 2010 21:41:55 GMT -5
He also wrestled as Botswana Beast. Even teamed with Kamala a few times. Name is Ben Peacock I think.
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Oct 10, 2010 22:13:12 GMT -5
Wasn't he Kimala, and the original was Kamala?
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Oct 10, 2010 22:24:16 GMT -5
I saw also another video from Memphis I believe where Jummy Hart had another guy named Kamala who wasn't as fat and looked nothing like either the guy talked about here Ben, who also was Uganda in ECW or Harris who is the Kamala we all knew.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Oct 10, 2010 22:55:14 GMT -5
The Original Kamala II was Uncle Elmer in Memphis. Yes, Hillbilly Jim's Uncle Elmer aka Plowboy Frazier in Memphis. Obviously the OP, was not talking about a morbidly obese white redneck in a loincloth. I think for a while there were several Kamalas (or would it be Kamali?) in the independents in the early 90's like all the Doinks that were and are around.
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Post by Nomad Soul on Oct 11, 2010 15:35:43 GMT -5
^ would love to see images of that.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Oct 11, 2010 15:49:09 GMT -5
^ would love to see images of that. Bad quality, but here's tape of the two together! |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Oct 11, 2010 15:55:27 GMT -5
didn't The Hati Kid play a minnie Kamala once
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Post by Kash Flagg on Oct 11, 2010 15:59:58 GMT -5
Not sure.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Oct 11, 2010 17:24:00 GMT -5
The spelling Kimala versus Kamala is just different spellings that various territories used, but obviously the most widely used is Kamala. There was a fairly well known Kamala II who wrestled Rob Van Dam in ECW using the name Uganda.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Oct 11, 2010 17:26:12 GMT -5
Yeah, the original Kamala was first presented as Kimala. I think the Kamala spelling may have happened in the WWF. Could be wrong.
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Oct 11, 2010 18:45:30 GMT -5
Didn't RD manage a Kamala or Son of Kamala in his time on the indy circuit?
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Oct 11, 2010 23:54:51 GMT -5
I love all Kamala's. Give me a Kamala over anything out today.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Oct 12, 2010 2:01:16 GMT -5
Yeah, the original Kamala was first presented as Kimala. I think the Kamala spelling may have happened in the WWF. Could be wrong. I overheard someone ask him about the spelling variations at Fanfest. He said he always signed it with the a instead of the i because that's how he always thought of it. I love the vignette that was filmed in Jerry Jarrett's back yard. |
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Post by Wade Renegade on Oct 12, 2010 7:27:33 GMT -5
The spelling Kimala versus Kamala is just different spellings that various territories used, but obviously the most widely used is Kamala. There was a fairly well known Kamala II who wrestled Rob Van Dam in ECW using the name Uganda. I remember that, I'm off to search YT for it as we speak! |
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 12, 2010 8:41:05 GMT -5
The second Kamala (Kamala II/the Botswana Beast/Uganda) was also a regular in All Japan during the 1990s, I think.
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Post by Wade Renegade on Oct 12, 2010 10:40:04 GMT -5
I found the RVD vs Uganda match but its WWE property now so obviously I can't post it. So here's the same fella under the guise Botswana Beast in 1991 in the UWF.
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 12, 2010 12:17:12 GMT -5
I don't know which one it was, but there was a Kamala-esque character called Uganda that wrestled in ECW for a while.
I remember he had a match one time against Rob Van Dam, and as "Walk" was playing, Uganda slammed his spear on the mat in time to the music.
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Post by Shameful_Lobsterhead on Oct 12, 2010 12:37:17 GMT -5
The second Kamala (Kamala II/the Botswana Beast/Uganda) was also a regular in All Japan during the 1990s, I think. I always wondered as well who that Kamala was. I remember seeing a promo on YT w/ Abdullah the Butcher in AJPW w/ his upcoming match w/ Baba and both Kamala's where in the locker-room with him. I believe it was both of them but yeah that has always been a mystery to me |
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Post by Wade Renegade on Oct 12, 2010 13:16:43 GMT -5
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