Joe Stecher 通过测试

关于乔·斯特彻尔的传奇故事之一涉及他与马丁的一场合法比赛 “农民” 伯恩斯摔跤手, 当施特彻刚从高中毕业时. Burns 听说 Stecher 的名声越来越大，决定让他的一名摔跤手对他进行测试.

多年来，, 我以为 Stecher 击败了 Yusif Mahmout 但他实际上与 Yussif Hussane 摔跤. The match occurred on June 17, 1913 at the Opera House in Dodge, Nebraska. Mahmout was a bigger start but was already in his late 40s. Hussane was 20 years younger and had amassed an excellent record in the four years before this match.

Burns expected Hussane to easily handle Stecher. Instead, Stecher shut down Hussane’s offense, which mainly consisted of trying to throw Stecher off the mat. Stecher caught Hussane in a leg scissors around the neck. Hussane realized that he was about to be choked out, so he bit the inside of Stecher’s leg.

The referee had no choice but to disqualify Hussane. The disqualification was what Hussane wanted. He later admitted that he knew his situation was desperate and didn’t want to submit or be choked out. The foul was his attempt to save face.

The match was supposed to be two-out-of-three falls. 然而, Hussane declined to return for the second fall. Stecher won the second fall and match via forfeit.

Stecher’s relatively easy victory impressed “农民” 伯恩斯. Publicly, they would act like rival camps but Burns actually started training both 20-year-old Joe and his older brother Anton “托尼” 施泰尔.

由 1915, Burns believed Joe Stecher could beat any wrestler in the world, so he started arranging a match with Frank Gotch, who retired as World Champion in 1913. Gotch was tired of challenges from other wrestlers wanting to benefit from his reputation, so he agreed to work a match with Stecher. He would let Stecher win and basically annoint him as his successor. 然而, Gotch was injured in a training match with Bob Managoff, 锶.

Despite not being able to wrestle Gotch, Stecher was accepted as the World Champion by the American wrestling fans and sports reporters. While he wrestled in mostly worked matches, Stecher was more than capable of defeating other wrestlers in legitimate contests.

Hussane’s wrestling career would last from 1909 至 1927. He was a successful journeyman but never beat the top men, whether it was a contest or prearranged exhibition.

Hussane must have been a good legitimate wrestler though or Burns would not have used him to test Stecher. Many of the top and mid-level wrestlers of this era were good to great wrestlers. 然而, legitimate contests could be boring for spectators, so wrestlers were working matches more often.

后 1915, worked matches were the rule. Legitimate contests mainly occurred behind closed doors in training matches. Wrestlers kept their legitimate skills up in case someone tried to double-cross them in the ring.

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Sources: The Dodge Criterion (Dodge, Nebraska), 六月 12, 1913 版, p. 8, The Loup City Northwestern (Sherman County, Nebraska), 五月 7, 1914 版, p. 1 和 wrestlingdata.com

 

 

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