{"id":42940,"date":"2017-11-22T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=42940"},"modified":"2017-11-22T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T23:50:59","slug":"wrestling-legend-kamala-on-life-support-at-north-mississippi-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wrestling-legend-kamala-on-life-support-at-north-mississippi-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Legend Kamala on Life Support at North Mississippi Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>TMZ<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Kamala+Oxford+Mississippi&amp;safe=off&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiPyM27udHXAhUk8IMKHbzCAFEQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=637\">a multitude of other websites<\/a> are reporting that professional wrestling legend\u00a0<strong>Kamala<\/strong>\u00a0is on life support after undergoing\u00a0emergency surgery at an <strong>Oxford, Mississippi <\/strong>hospital on Sunday, November 19, 2017, according to social media posts from his family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Kamala&#8217;s stepdaughter <strong>Juanita James<\/strong>\u00a0posted on Facebook from Oxford, saying that doctors didn&#8217;t think he would make it out of surgery alive, but he managed to pull through and is now &#8220;showing signs of improvement,&#8221; reports\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prowrestlingsheet.com\/kamala-life-support\/#.WhNoaFWnGUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProWrestlingSheet<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/article\/kamala-undergoes-emergency-surgery\"><strong>WWE,com<\/strong><\/a> reported, &#8220;His buddy\u00a0Koko B. Ware\u00a0is here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjuanita.mays.1%2Fposts%2F1944880005776483&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"633\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>James Harris<\/strong>, a.k.a. Kamala, was a mainstay for the WWF in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. He feuded and wrassled with Hall of Fame superstars like<strong>\u00a0Hulk Hogan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Andre the Giant,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jake &#8220;The Snake&#8221; Roberts<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Harris\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2267803-from-wrestling-legend-to-double-amputee-kamala-keeps-fighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fell on hard times<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>after leaving the pro wrestling scene. Both of his legs were amputated below the knees between 2011\u20132012 due to complications from diabetes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2014, he revealed that he and his wife were scraping by on his disability checks.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMZ and a multitude of other websites are reporting that professional wrestling legend\u00a0Kamala\u00a0is on life support after undergoing\u00a0emergency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":42941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11208,8490,11209,11204,11207,11205,11210,5,2531,4,11211,11213,11212,7225,11206],"class_list":["post-42940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-andre-the-giant","tag-hulk-hogan","tag-jake-the-snake-roberts","tag-james-harris","tag-juanita-james","tag-kamala","tag-koko-b-ware","tag-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-oxford","tag-world-wrestling-entertainment","tag-wrasslin","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe","tag-wwf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-22-Kamala.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}