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(1)Young Abraham Lincoln was a wrestling champion in his county from about the 1830s at the age of 21.image text translation
(2)Lincoln had impressive physical conditions, slim but tough and muscular, and a body trained by the hard work of the field, a whopping 6ft 4in 195cm tall.
(1)Jack Armstrong, the tough local county champion, and his famous fightimage text translation
(2)It was around this time that
(3)Lincoln was looking at a store in New Salem, Illinois, when his boss ordered him to beat Armstrong in horror.
(4)From the start, Lincoln hit the local champion in a row.
(5)Angry at Lincoln’s incredibly long reach, Armstrong began to foul.
(6)Lincoln managed to hold it in for a while, but eventually turned around and picked up his opponent, pinned him to the ground, and fainted.
(1)Armstrong managed to come to his senses and get into a scuffle.image text translation
(2)I restrained my angry colleagues.
(3)Lincoln’s only one loss was to lose to an unknown soldier in a scuffle that was conventional at the time after wrestling, and he is famous for showing off his unbeaten performance in official matches.
(4)Lincoln’s style is also known as catch-as-catch-can-CACC freestyle wrestling and is more of a close game than a sport.
(5)Lincoln quickly improved from the age of 19 to the age of 29, when he battled Nietzschez thugs who tried to steal ships to protect his other brother’s cargo ship and threw them into the water.
(6)At 29, he cautiously noted that he was probably the second-best wrestler in southern Illinois.
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Lincoln was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame from the Illinois State Wrestling Champion.