Who did Billie Jean King beat in the tennis match called “The Battle of the Sexes?”?
In 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs. He was a former Wimbledon champion and male chauvinist pig, god bless him, who was a world champion in 1939 at the age of 16 and was washed up by 1950. He was 26 years her senior. So don’t get too excited ladies. He was old and decrepit by the time she spanked him. Although 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 really can’t be called a spanking against an old man can it? I mean he was 55 years old practically a Sr. Citizen by then and she was a top seeded woman on the WTA at 29. Riggs played and beat a champion tennis player named Margaret Court on Mother’s Day 1973, and immediately challenged Billie Jean King saying, “I want Billie Jean King. . . . I want the women’s lib leader!” Riggs boasted loudly that even the much younger Billie Jean King, at age twenty-nine, was no match for him, by mere virtue of his manhood. Yep she showed him didn’t she. Since Billie Jean later came out of the closet doesn’t that kinda spoil the Battle of the Sexes title just a bit. No
