10 Wrestling Legends That Would Never Be Pushed In WWE 2015
4. Kamala
A note. I'd include Abdullah the Butcher on this list, but he has Hepatitis and is known for bleeding, so aside from his size, he'd be immediately disqualified from WWE employment. But Kamala? Yeah. He was a superstar who worked on top with Hulk Hogan in the WWF. And he was fat as hell, too. Sometimes being fat accentuates a look and makes you more believable as a main event talent. Kamala as a jacked African with stars painted on his pecs and a moon on his abs really wouldn't make sense somehow. However, a guy with stars on his chest and a moon on his belly just works in that inexplicable way that so much of wrestling inexplicably works. Jungle savages being fat from eating many humans and foraging for animal skins to wear works. If all you're doing is attacking people then eating their brains all day long, you're probably not going to have too much time to work out. Maybe it's an idea that's antiquated for the modern age, or maybe not. Kamala was a draw who in 2015 WWE would probably be a humorous afterthought.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.