斯特彻与鲁迪·杜塞克摔跤
在阵亡将士纪念日, 五月 30, 1925, 乔·施切尔 (Joe Stecher) 在一场精彩的比赛中击败了斯坦尼斯劳斯·兹比什科 (Stanislaus Zbyszko)，夺回了施切尔去年 12 月失去的世界重量级摔跤冠军头衔 1920. 斯特彻参与了一项阴谋，该阴谋于四月份付钱给斯坦尼斯劳斯·兹比什科（Stanislaus Zbyszko）出卖韦恩·“大”穆恩（Wayne“Big”Munn） 1925.
兹皮希科在职业摔跤界最著名的双交叉比赛之一中合法地击败了穆恩. As part of the conspiracy, Zbyszko dropped the title to Joe Stecher in St. 路易, 密苏里州.
Rudy Dusek applying a cross-body hold from the back on an unidentified bald wrestler (公共领域)
Joe Stecher made one of his first title defenses against Rudy Dusek in Little Rock, Arkansas on June 30, 1925. Stecher wrestled Dusek at the Southern Association Ball Park.
Dusek was the oldest brother in a wrestling family. Rudy Dusek eventually started promoting his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska in the 1930s. 在 1925, Dusek was still only a solid wrestler.
Joe Stecher 带着他的冠军腰带 (公共领域)
Stecher and Dusek engaged in an hour and twenty minutes of back-and-forth wrestling. Dusek even stood up out of Stecher’s leg scissors in a seldom seen escape from the “Scissors King.”
Stecher applied another leg scissors at the one hour, twenty-minute mark. Stecher used the leg scissors and arm hold to pin Dusek at one hour, twenty-three minutes.
After the twenty minute intermission, Dusek claimed the leg scissors had injured his ribs forcing Dusek to concede the match to Stecher. Stecher reluctantly accepted the victory while praising Dusek to the newspaper reporters.
Dusek impressed more than Stecher. 汤姆·派克斯（Tom Packs）, 圣. Louis promoter, refereed the match. Packs told the newspaper reporters that he never considered Dusek a top-notch wrestler. 然而, Dusek’s showing against Stecher changed Packs’ mind.
Packs said he intended to book Dusek on future St. Louis cards. Packs did book Dusek in St. Louis during November 1925.
On the same day that Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko, Ed “Strangler” Lewis defeated Wayne “Big” Munn in Michigan for a version of the world title recognized in Michigan and Illinois. While the title would remain divided for the next three years, most fans and newspaper reporters recognized Joe Stecher as the actual world champion.
Stecher winning title matches with opponents like Rudy Dusek strengthened Stecher’s claim. How would Lewis answer?
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Sources: Tulsa World (Tulsa, 俄克拉何马州) 七月 1, 1925, p. 15
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