So you think Riggs went from beating the crap out of Margaret Court a month before, to losing badly to a player who was lesser than Court.
I’ve known a lot of women’s libbers and none of them would have accepted a game in which the odds were totally against them winning. Billy Jean King just would not have let herself be set up for that much embarrassment.
Riggs was milking the whole thing for all he could get.
He asked King for a rematch which would have given him a chance to make even more money by winning this time.
King refused.