They would
The Founding Fathers would get blackout drunk and break stuff. Washington was a famously drunk dancer
President Jackson threw a kegger in the White House when he got elected. Later, Teddy Roosevelt staged fights at the White House—Trump isn't even the first to do it!
They loved life and they fought, wrestled, and in some cases, even shot each other.
They were a bunch of rowdy young men.
Of course they'd love to see an exhibition match. We know because THEY LOVED EXHIBITION MATCHES!
They had fist fights in Congress!
They would be delighted to no end to see a cage fight on the White House lawn
They would probably invite all of D.C. to come see it
We know this because they did stuff like that all the time, for all sorts of reasons
Remember Jefferson's cheese wheel he let the public harvest?
If you think the Founding Fathers would be upset by wrestling, you're a fool.
Washington was famously a collar-and-elbow wrestling champion, and he held the Virginia champion title until he was 47, with no losses!
Even Abraham Lincoln won a catch wrestling tournament when he was 21.
When you're talking about the Founding Fathers, you have to realize you're talking about a particularly rowdy, young group of men who had recently been forced to physically fight to birth a country.
They were not strangers to violence, in sport or in need.
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