7 Wrestling Characters I Read Way Too Much Into

Kamala was a strange oddity in professional wrestling. His gimmick was a most-awful racial stereotype, to the point where his manager was referred to as his damn ‘handler’. He was an African savage, wrestling without footwear and in primitive dress. It was, and always has been offensive.

But what of Kamala? The key comes in the terminology. Kim Chee was his handler, not his manager, because Kamala was kidnapped from a very young age and condemned to a life of doing the bidding of whoever was in a position to exploit him at the time. Kamala was a big, big boy, and his naivety made him an easy target for exploitation.

This was clear in the way that Kamala always seemed somewhat frightened himself. There was a lack of conviction in his actions, always motioning to his abusers for acceptance and direction. Kamala wasn’t a fighter by any stretch of the imagination; he was a lost child who was entirely alone and left to the abusive hand of exploitation.

Nope, he was just a big guy portraying an awfully insensitive gimmick in awfully insensitive times.