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>Standing at an impressive 6 feet, 4 inches tall, with lanky arms perfectly designed to tie his opponents in knots, Lincoln was a renowned grappler known for his peerless strength and keen mind in his teens and early 20s. Remember, though, wrestling in rural 19th century America didn't have the fluid grace of an Olympic contest, and it certainly wasn't the garish morality play of the WWE. No, this style of wrestling was a pure test of strength, with combatants locking horns to prove their dominance in front of an audience mostly made up of drunks, gamblers, soldiers, or some combination of the three. Known as catch-as-catch-can style, this brand of wrestling is best described as "more hand-to-hand combat than sport."
>Touting just one loss among his 300 (or so) contests, Lincoln gained a reputation among the New Salem, Illinois, locals as an elite fighter, eventually earning his county's wrestling championship. He knew just how good he was, too. After one victory, Lincoln reportedly looked at the crowd and bellowed what passed for trash talk at the time: “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” The challenge would go unanswered.
>Lincoln's most memorable contest came against Jack Armstrong, a member of the rough and rugged Clary's Grove Boys. When Armstrong heard stories of Lincoln's famous strength (from Lincoln's boss, no less), he challenged the future president to a match. Crowds gathered. Money was wagered. And when the bout was over, Lincoln again stood tall, as he always seemed to.
>To this day, historians can only find one instance where Lincoln was bested during a match. It occurred while he was a part of the Illinois Volunteers during the Black Hawk War of 1832, when a man named Hank Thompson became the only man to actually throw Lincoln during a bout for his regiment's championship.
The wrong President is on the dime
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based Lincoln working the rebels into a seething shoot
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>>3064116
Talk about your Psalms, talk about your prayers, talk about your John 3:16. LINCOLN 3:16 says I’m the big buck of this lick.
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>>3064116
Lincoln was also a closet homo, a friendless autist and a legit dopehead.
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Based Big Buck
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>>3064116
WIT DA FARMERS STRENGTH
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>>3064116
>“I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.”
The Austin 3:16 of the 1820s
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Based big poppa buck
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>>3064116
>I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns
Literally better than any promo in WWE in the past 10 years
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Lincoln is taking his seat in the theatre, the second half of the play is underwa- WAIT A MINUTE!
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>>3064116
>I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns
Cringe
More like the Jannettysburg Address
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>>3064116
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>>3064298
Holy fuck can you imagine Abe & Grant vs. Davis & Lee?
It would be a literal squash. Rebels are a joke.
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>>3064314
Davis is such a Jeanetty.
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>>3064314
that feel when this board is too 180- to remember the mass burials from sherman's "squash to the sea" push
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how this have to do with wrestling, sweetie?
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>>3064329
>being too much of a roastie to read
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>>3064335
What is a roastie, im smart.
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>>3064141
So you're telling me Lincoln was Vince of the 1800s
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Oh here he comes, Abe Lincoln. The Big Log, and this is his Union!
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>“I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.”
Based Big Quarters Lincoln calling out the Young Bucks almost two centuries ago.
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>>3064116
based big buck
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>>3064116
>"And here's Big Buck Abe with the chokeslam!"
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>>3064285
What's amazing is that John Wilkes Boothe was basically an A-list actor at the time he killed Lincoln. It'd be like if Leonardo DiCaprio shot Trump.
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>>3064493
Not really. Yes he was A-list and massively successful but in an era with no tv, film, radio, etc. where theater was reserved for the elite.
It would be the equivalent of an A-list opera star killing Trump.
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>>3064505
Based Pavarotti rising from the grave just to work the marks.
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Based Big Buck Lincoln working Boothetty into a literal shoot
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>>3064286
underrated
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Vanilla midgets btfo
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>>3066347
the south was the jannetty
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>>3066347
the south was the jannetty
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>>3064286
kek
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>>3066398
More like WCW.
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Based Lincoln burying the south and drawing $5s
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