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Hello everyone

I've been a lurker on this forum for quite a few years now. Mostly keeping up with Cap's Universe and seeing this community keeping this game/simulation alive. I've played TBCB 2.5 for maybe 5 or so years now. Always found it quite enjoyable to watch history unfold. I had an interesting idea but I knew the only way I'd ever stick to it was if I came here to the forum and posted about it... See below.

It's quite well known that ol' Honest Abe was quite the catch-as-can wrestler for his time. In this universe, we're going to extrapolate that as President Lincoln being a big fan of combat sports of all kinds, including boxing. During the Civil War, pressure is mounting not only on the field of battle but also on the homefront. Restlessness and paranoia about the State of the Union grips civilians as the national crisis unfolds.

Desperate to grant the people of the Union a much-needed distraction, our Boxing fan-in-chief assembles the first nationally publicized boxing tour -- doing his best to throw the might of the American Press behind it. Bare-knuckle boxing had it's local champions and regional underground heroes, but for the first time it was granted true sporting legitimacy, something even baseball was yet to achieve. A cash prize was posed for the winner of each tour, with competitors traveling across the homefront to Union cities in highly publicized events, setting the stage for the emergence of professional boxing.