Lincoln, an awesome physical specimen at 6-feet-4, was widely known for his wrestling skills and had only one recorded defeat in a dozen years."Īccording to Sports Illustrated, that defeat came during the Black Hawk Indian uprising of 1832, when Hank Thompson bested the future President with two straight falls in a regimental championship match. "In the rough and ready style of the frontier, "catch as catch can" wrestling was more hand-to-hand combat than sport. He also, according to the NWHOF's page on their famous honoree, spent most of that time winning. Lincoln did quite a bit of wrestling during the years he lived in Indiana from ages 9 to 21." "His Uncle Mord reputably had a real talent for it. "Lincoln had wrestling in his background," White added. While his gangly and awkward amusing genetic copy preferred basketball on Clone High, the original Abe had grappling in his blood. (Side note: this interview is really worth reading both for the actual information it contains, and for the number of references to wrestlers like The Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Captain Lou Albano shamelessly shoehorned into the prose.) "Lincoln definitely wrestled." "It's not mythology," Lincoln expert and best-selling author of A.
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