9 Wrestlers That Refused To Break Kayfabe
9. The Mysterious Life Of Arman Hussian
Our countdown begins with someone that most might not even remember. Arman Hussian has had his name misspelled by countless promotions over the years; Armand Hussein, Arman Hussain being used most often - and last worked in the Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling as a manager in a faction with booker Gary Hart, after a nasty car accident broke his left hip, causing a major infection that nearly killed him and ended his wrestling career in the early 1980s.
Why go for a man barely anyones ever heard of? Because Arman Hussian was the professional wrestlers professional wrestler.
A formidable size, with an exciting grasp of athletic, technical wrestling, the former Mike Barber, or Mike Harmon (no ones exactly sure) was billed as being from the Sudan, having taken on the character he was playing - that of a Muslim graduate of Oxford University - so completely that he legally changed his name to Arman Hussian in 1959.
Hussian would keep the English accent going twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week not just in public, but backstage, to the extent that even the other boys didn't know where he was from. He never spoke of his private life to anyone in the business, but given that he never appeared to go home, but constantly toured the territories, he may never have had one. He appeared to be highly-educated and articulate, but promoters suspected that he was in fact a high school drop out from Alabama. But no one knew.
Hussian was an enigma, well known for refusing to break kayfabe at any time, or for any reason. Whether teaming with Sammartino in the WWWF as a babyface, or Abdullah The Butcher in Canada as a heel, Hussian never once dropped his gimmick, not for anyone. That car accident that ended his career? He told all of the boys that Roddy Piper did it to him in the ring.
Arman Hussian worked everyone; from the moment he debuted as the character to the moment he left the business.