Kamala

It's this like kind of this cartoon look.

We got Kamala, The Ugandan Giant, versus Rick Martel.

Like, just the thought of that, just saying that out loud is-

I know.

Yeah.

Yep.

But yeah, this is really neat just to see Kamala like, you know, in this area.

It's before his return to the WWF after like, but he's, Kamala was everywhere, man.

I'm just talking about this move.

Memphis era and about two years later, Kamala's big splash.

Hm.

Just to watch it.

Yeah.

But he would still do it because he was big enough to pull it off.

But I'm talking early Kamala.

Okay.

Houston continued drawing major crowds during the mid-1980s, including a reported 10,000 at Sam Houston Coliseum on December 27th, 1984, at a time when the WWF was already attempting to penetrate Texas.

The great Texas villains would include, in this 10-year period, uh, Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts, Gino Hernandez, Gentleman Chris Adams, Bruiser Brody, Gary Hart, The Great Kabuki, Jimmy Garvin, Killer Tim Brooks, Bob Sweetan, Dick Slater, King Kong Bundy, Kamala, The Missing Link, and Killer Khan.

But if I had to identify the four most important villains of that 10-year period in Dallas, I'd probably say it was Michael Hayes, Gino Hernandez, Chris Adams, and Bruiser Brody.

They represented four completely different types of opposition to the Von Erich family.

Exactly, yeah.

Iceman King Parsons became a major Texas babyface after being on the undercards in Crockett.

King Kong Bundy, Missing Link, uh, Kamala, Killer Khan, the Super Destroyers, Jake Roberts, Sunshine, Precious, and numerous others passed through the World Class universe.

Gary Hart was especially important because he understood how to build antagonists for the Von Erichs.

Oh, my goodness.

The Ol- the Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle, taking on the Ugandan headhunter, [laughs] Kamala.

Um-

Mike?

[laughs] Kurt Angle.

We shouldn't have made the deal.

So we could have had Seth Ha- Seth Rollins versus Kurt Angle and Jim Duggan versus Kamala.

Somewhere Jim Duggan's gonna be lurking.

[laughs]

And, and I, and I guess, uh, he knew, uh, you know, he's gonna be having a big war, a big series with Kamala coming up in a few months, and h- maybe, maybe he knows that Andre's coming back, and maybe there's gonna be a feud between the two of them.

Maybe he's bulking up for that.

I, you know what, I, I need to monitor that as time goes on because I, to me, this is the biggest I've ever seen Hulk Hogan, and Hulk knows it too, because he is showing off those arms every chance he gets.

Ye- yeah.

I, I mean, um, y- you know, if the promotion thought like, "Oh my God, let's, let's give him the Sweet Daddy Siki gimmick because it got over big 30 years ago," I mean, th- they were really not thinking the [laughs] right way because, you know, in the WWF now you have so many different personalities larger than life and they're, each one has a unique gimmick or something that makes them stand out, and I don't think that was dramatic enough to, for him.

Uh, yeah, he looked different, uh, than your typical Black guy [laughs] athlete, but, uh, it didn't really say, uh, b- box office like, say, Kamala or some of the other people.

No, I genuinely think I've, I've... f- from what I've heard, Vince McMahon loved the gimmick, uh, and we'll talk more about Vince loving gimmicks, uh, as we go on.

Sting with Jimmy Hart versus the Dungeon of Doom.

The Dungeon of Doom is Kamala.

I mean, we haven't really talked about moon breasts a whole lot recently.

Oh, no.