12 Wrestlers With Terrible Backstories
7. Kamala
While Kamala had already wrestled in various territories by the mid 1980s, he was introduced to the WWF audience in 1984. In a Piper’s Pit segment, Freddie Blassie showed off his newest possession, the Ugandan Warrior Kamala, along with his handler Friday.
Friday was a missionary who continued to dress as if he was on a safari, and wore a mask for no discernible reason. Kamala was said to know absolutely nothing about wrestling, as he’d never competed in a match in his life. He only knew “brutality”.
So uh...they basically kidnapped a man from Uganda to wrestle? Not only that, but Kamala was the chief of his tribe, so hopefully no one else was dependent on him. Oh, and he was also a cannibal.
Well, the gimmick was racist, it was offensive and it was bad. The world was a different place then, though, and after the 80s it would have been even in more bad taste to bring in an act like this, which is why WWE never did it again...besides Papa Shango in 1992 and Umaga in 2006.