Possibly.
But I remember at the time (at age 12-14)of thinking among my friends any boy could easily outdo any girl of the same age in physical activity so any man of similar age should do as well.
When we realized Riggs was a much older man, even us kids knew it wasn’t a “real” contest though many girls insisted King won far and square and “any girl could do anything a boy could do”
Which is what King, as an radical, leftist, lesbian, feminist wanted and that’s why she and her kind went all along with it.
A corrupt bargain all along and Bobby Riggs was a foolish old man if he really thought he could beat an much youger woman at the top of her game.
Apparently you haven’t read the thread. Riggs did beat a woman at the top of her game. He beat Margaret Court who was the number 1 ranked woman in the world at the time.
He also beat her very easily.
Jimmy Connors mopped the floor with Navratilova, but that didn’t fit the agenda.