10 Wrestling Gimmicks More Disturbing Than You Think
7. Kamala Was Kidnapped
Meanwhile, Ugandan "cannibal" Kamala was plucked from his East African homeland and forced to fight in the good ol' USA. Sure, the WWF didn't word his arrival quite like that, but it was painfully obvious that both Kim Chee and various other managers were taking advantage of him.
The guy had been kidnapped.
In typical cartoony WWF fashion, the promotion toned down Kamala's original backstory from the old Memphis days. There, he was a former bodyguard to deposed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, but Vince McMahon apparently didn't want to touch that. Nah, presenting the character as a kidnapping victim was the way to go.
Kamala eventually broke free of Kim Chee's dominion and became a surprise hit as a midcard babyface (at least for a little while). Watch any of his early vignettes/matches from the late 1980s and its clear to see the gimmick was based around Kamala struggling to rebel against his "handlers".