Ponda Baba was an Aqualish male who worked as a smuggler and enforcer, associated with the criminal underworld of Jabba the Hutt's organization. He frequently operated alongside the fugitive surgeon Doctor Cornelius Evazan.
Ponda Baba is best remembered for a violent confrontation in Chalmun's Cantina in the spaceport city of Mos Eisley on Tatooine, in which he lost an arm to the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. He appears in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Detailed chronology appears in the Timeline.
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