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  • Audience-Alienating Era:
    • His face run in 1993.
    • His appearance on the July 26, 2004 Raw, where the Diva Search contestants were supposed to try to "seduce" him, and, of course, none of them knew who he was.
  • Awesome Music: His entrance music.
  • Badass Decay: As a face. Bobby Heenan even acknowledged this on commentary at the start of the Kamala-Kim Chee match on the USA Network March 28 (taped March 7), 1993 March to WrestleMania IX special, saying that Kamala didn't have the same kind of killer instinct that he had when he was with Harvey Wippleman and Kim Chee.
  • Fair for Its Day: The Kamala gimmick has been criticized in recent years for being culturally insensitive. Yet, the gimmick was scarcely an example of Uncle Tomfoolery - he was billed as a monster heel across several territories and to this day is rememebered as one of the best giant wrestlers of all time.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: His real name was James Harris, making him James "Kamala" Harris. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, anyone? Doubly so considering that Kamala Harris was elected Vice President shortly after his death. This coincidence was lampshaded by Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he had Harris as a guest, admitting that the first thought he had when he first heard about her was Kamala the wrestler. Harris for her part revealed that she was aware of it and found it funny.

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