It was a FRAUD even if Bobby Riggs didn’t “let the girl win”.
He was a out of his prime tennis player vs a oppenort that was just reaching hers.....
“Rigged” from the start....
You mean that the Mafia was behind the homosexual agenda (Stonewall was a mob run speakeasy), the feminist movment (Billy Jean King victory), and organizized labor goons????
Why, that would mean that the Democrats' core constituents are all crooks!
No, not thrown, and I watched it.
Hal Shaw, friend of Bobby Riggs, told ESPN that it was all a setup.
According to Shaw, who was an assistant golf pro 40 years ago at the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Fla., where Riggs also was working, he was toiling late one night fixing golf clubs when he saw mob lawyer Frank Ragano, Florida mob boss Santo Trafficante Jr. and New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello enter the clubhouse.
Ragano told the men Riggs was going to “set up two matches . . . against the two best women players,” Shaw told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”
For those who don’t know, Billy Jean King was ranked number 2 in the world then. Margaret Court of Australia was ranked number 1.
Months before losing to King, the 55 year old, long retired, Riggs crushed then-No. 1 women’s player Margaret Court.
Riggs was one of his era’s greats, winning Wimbledon and the US Open in 1939. He won the US Open at Forest Hills again in 1941 at age 23.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
The first match was between Riggs and the number one woman player in the world. Riggs beat her very easily just basically toying with her.
Then surprise surprise. Billy Jean King challenges him to another match. Since Riggs had made a monkey out of Court all the betting money was on Riggs, especially since Court was ranked higher than King.
I thought to myself: Why is Billy Jean King, a big feminist setting herself up to get beat even worse than Court? The answer: She knew she was going to win.
I read a book by Rod Laver and he just comes right out and say it. “Riggs put big money on King using pawns and threw the match” Riggs didn’t suddenly go from easily beating top ranked Margaret Court to easily losing to King.
I thought it was always well known that he tanked that match.
I saw both the Court-Smith match and the King match. Riggs didn’t play anything against King like he played against Court-Smith. He basically hit lollipops to King. A male pro tennis player, even at 55, can hit the ball very hard. Riggs looked like he wasn’t even trying against King.
Was there a grassy knoll nearby? Just sayin.
It’s over and King won? Dang, I was gonna watch that.
Serena Williams ranked number 1 female player in the world
Fastest serve = 116mph
Average 1st Serve = 99mph
Average 2nd Serve = 82mph
VS.
Novak Djokovic ranked number 1 male player in the world
Fastest serve = 128mph
Average 1st Serve = 111mph
Average 2nd Serve = 92mph
Put in on PPV. I wouldn't buy it personally but then I know what would happen.
Riggs was a hustler and did not play tennis like a man to begin with. He was what you call a touch player, he wasn’t known for any power game.
I have been playing tennis for many decades myself and I am aware of the styles, people involved and men versus women.
Then most college guys could wipe the floor with all the women except the top two or three. Male pros would destroy their female versions. That is why the William sisters IMO never took John McEnroe up on his challenge. He would wipe the floor even with these great women players.
I was a 6.0 and did play a few off the women pros to help prepare them for other women at times and I could beat them 6-0 at will.
They can’t move like men, they don’t have the power and are slow compared with males.
Riggs made a ton of money just by saying SUGAR DADDY on TV. He got $5000 every time he said that on that national TV.
Let's see. One of the top women's tennis players in the world beats a 55 year-old guy, and that's supposed to be boost for "gender equality?" LOL.
Tic tock, tic, tock:
Their fifteen minutes of fame expired forty years ago!
I remember watching it on TV on ABC that night (CBS as I recall was showing Bonnie & Clyde). I never really thought Riggs was really trying that hard.
Bobby threw the match because he felt sorry for the girl.
I was in high school at the time and even then I had the wisdom to understand that i twas not “men vs women”. It was Bobby vs Billie.
Liberals are idiots.