If he got into wrestling to get by, Harris was about to be disappointed. “It’s kind of sad to say,” he said in an interview with HoboTrashCan, “but after all those years in the business, I didn’t make a lot of money, I wasn’t paid well when I was in the WWF. Vince knows he didn’t pay me what I deserved, after all the main event matches that I was in. I don’t know why because we had sold out everywhere.” Frustrations with compensation aside, he apparently had no ill feelings towards the character of Kamala, who others have pointed to as a problematic stereotype. “Lawler asked me if I was going to be ashamed to do it,” he said, “but I’m not ashamed to do stuff like that. I enjoyed it.”

After leaving the ring in 1993, Harris went back to driving trucks. Unfortunately, his later life was marked by tragedy and personal hardship. By the time of his death, he had lost both legs to diabetes, and had his court case thrown out when he attempted to sue the WWE over their alleged role in his traumatic brain injuries, according to Fox Sports.