![]() ![]() After he won, Armstrong’s boys started coming to fight Abe, but Armstrong called them off. Abe, being the honest man that he was, had enough and picked up and slammed Armstrong to win the match. Abe was winning the match when Armstrong started cheating. Burroughs at the 2020 Olympic Trials, but this was the biggest bout of the 1800s.Īrmstrong challenged the 21 year old Lincoln as the townspeople watched. Lincoln’s wrestling career hit a peak when he took on the local wrestling champion in Salem, Illinois: Jack Armstrong. Armstrong: The Pinnacle of Abe’s Wrestling Career As his stats grew he began to attract attention and this led to his most incredible wrestling feat, which came in the 1830’s. Abe started out wrestling at a young age when the owner of the shop where he worked started to promote his wrestling prowess to attract visitors to his store. A popular style at the time was collar and elbow, in which each wrestler started out face-to-face with one hand on the neck in a collar tie and the other on the elbow.Įvery town had its own wrestling champion. Crowds gathered and townspeople watched and gambled as the toughest men took each other on in different styles of wrestling. It’s true that wrestling wasn’t very organized, it was mostly just a show of strength. Since Abe was born in the 1800’s, you may be wondering how he is even considered a wrestler since high school and college wrestling didn’t even exist back then. That’s because Abe Lincoln was born in Kentucky but moved to Illinois in 1830, with a move to Indiana in between. Technically he is a part of Illinois wrestling history, too. Honest Abe may be the most famous Kentucky wrestler in the history of the United States. Humble Beginnings: Kicking Butt in Kentucky But did you know that four score and seven years ago he was also a wrestler? In this article you will learn why the man on the penny is the most badass president who ever served this country, so let’s jump into Abraham Lincoln’s wrestling career. You may know Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States, the man with the stovepipe hat, or the free-er of slaves during the Civil War. ![]()
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