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* {{Start date|2021|04|24}} (first event)
* {{Start date|2022|05|21}}
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* Bowling Lake Park, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. (2022)
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The event was originally conceived by a civil engineering student named Josh Swain from [[Tucson, Arizona]], on April 24, 2020, due to boredom during [[COVID-19 lockdowns]]. It gained popularity after a screenshot of a [[Facebook Messenger]] group chat involving several users named Josh Swain [[List of Internet phenomena|spread widely on the Internet]].
Swain encouraged participants of the chat to meet at a set of coordinates one year hence and fight for the right to use the name "[[Josh]]." The event, though initially intended as a joke, drew a crowd of nearly a thousand on the day of the event. The gathering was lighthearted and there was no actual violence involved. ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' wrote that the event became a "global news phenomenon,"<ref name="
== Background ==
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| reference = <ref name="jsTweet">{{cite tweet |last=Swain |first=Joshua |user=joshswainaz |number=1253728855459639297 |date=April 24, 2020 |title=there can only be one https://t.co/VPamxjJ0yL |language=en |access-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902113134/https://twitter.com/joshswainaz/status/1253728855459639297 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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Swain explained the idea for the event was conceived out of boredom from the [[COVID-19 lockdowns]]. Swain had often experienced the frustration of being unable to receive an exclusive [[User (computing)|handle]] on social media because of other Josh Swains.<ref name="
Although Swain said the tweet was "entirely a joke," the conversation became a [[meme]] on social media.<ref name="
Swain had selected [[Lincoln, Nebraska]] as a site for the event due to its central location within the United States; the original randomly picked coordinates were located in a field on private property. The field's owner, however, did not agree to host "such a ridiculous event,"<ref name="
== Event ==
On the chosen day, nearly a thousand people, including at least 50 named Josh, congregated at Air Park.<ref name="
Only two of the individuals in attendance were named "Josh Swain"—Josh Swain, the event's creator, beat a rival 38-year-old Josh Swain from Omaha in the rock paper scissors event.<ref name="
The gathering raised US$14,355 for the [[Children's Hospital & Medical Center|Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation]]{{Mdash}}far past its initial goal of US$1,000{{Mdash}}and collected over {{convert|200|lb|kg|sigfig=1}} of food for the nearby food bank.<ref name="
The next year, a second edition of the event was held on May 21, 2022, at Bowling Lake Park.<ref name="Swain-2022">{{Cite web |last=Swain |first=Josh |date=May 22, 2022 |title=Josh Fight 2022 {{!}} thejoshfight.com |url=https://www.thejoshfight.com/events/josh-fight-2022#:~:text=May%2021%2C%2011,NE%2068524%2C%20USA |url-status=
== See also ==
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