Gina Talton Billy Jean kicked ass. Totally. You couldn’t fake those shots she put on his ass. Just as Rosie said A man his age shouldn’t be on the court with someone of Billy Jeans caliber. He asked for this and she was game for the challenge.
There's a lot of speculations that this match was actually fixed, as Serena Williams candidly said, if I were to go up against Andy Murray, I would probably lose 6-0 6-0, you got to love her sense of humor.
FlyerJon01 so. He asked for this and she kicked his ass. Sometimes it comes down to picking you battles. Oops. She won ! Sorry. I live in Houston and know people that were attending that very same game. There was no gimmicks. She kicked his ass.💥Boom 💥
There's serious doubt now whether Billie Jean really won the match. There's suspicion Bobby Riggs threw this match. This is not to take away Billie Jean's accomplishment. But Bobby Riggs (a lifetime gambler) was in heavy debt to the mafia and he bet against himself so he could pay back most of what he owed.You also have to look how badly Bobby beat Margaret Court just months prior in another Battle of the Sexes match in which he annihilated Margaret, who was the #1 player in the world. Compared it to the beating he took against Billie Jean where it looked he intentionally didn't move for some shots, it does look suspicious. Obviously with Bobby now gone we'll never know the truth.
I don't think so. If Bobby had won, he was going to get $100,000. - plus he got $50,000 for the Sugar Daddy endorsement. He also knew if he won, there'd be other women, or Billie Jean herself, asking for a re-match, where he'd make even more money. There's simply no incentive for him to lose.
You do know that Serena was defeated by a 203 ranked man right? It is not chauvinism to know the fact that men are built better than women physically. This guy lost because he was 55.
Did u even watch the actual footage if the game? If u do could u provide link to it? Because i've seen the footage posted on youtube that make me can't help wondering that he throw away the match.
Bobbie tryed hard to syke out Billy Jean. Right. See all the things she did we would have missed if not for this movie. Dang i know she must feel like a third person ,but she made it for women. An earned an got her respect. Thanks
No...I doubt he thought one way or the other. He didn’t actually disrespect women, he just wanted to hype up people and earn money. And the way to earn money was to win the match.
+Legend33Larry You did fine. No mistakes. The reason that this was so important was that Riggs beat the #1 woman tennis player in that year, Margaret Court (four months before the King-Riggs match) by the lop-sided score of 6/2, 6/1. It set back women's tennis and women's rights in general in the USA (Title IX, the foundling women's tennis tour (in only its third season and struggling for acceptance), etc...). Billie did not want to play Bobby and refused to do so many times (because she believed that there was nothing to gain for women's tennis by playing him) until he humiliated Margaret Court, who played him only for the $$$. Then she knew she HAD to play him. She dedicated herself to preparing for the match and defeated Bobby easily because she was fully prepared.
I fully understand that, but he was 55 years old and out of shape. What's the point? Allegedly, many stated that Riggs bet on King's victory in order to make quick bucks. Probably we'll never know the whole story.
+Legend33Larry But, it was the same for Margaret Court, even though Bobby defeated her. You are probably way too young to have seen this match live, Larry, but (unfortunately) I am old enough to have seen it live and it was the biggest event of it's time...The build-up to it was like nothing you have ever seen before...Everyone was talking about it...It meant so much to women (and even men), and it changed everything for the next generation of fathers who started to raise their daughters differently after that match than before it. They encouraged their daughters, as they always had their sons, to play sports...and look at where women's sports is now. Women's tennis is on equal footing with the men's game...Equal prize $$$, once un-thought of, is now a part of all of the Grand Slam events... This match was HUGE...And anyone who saw the match KNOWS that Bobby didn't throw it. He tried his aSS off, but Billie had a strategy, stuck too it (even when she briefly fell behind), and ran him ragged...by the end of the match he was not much more than a damp washcloth...
Verbal Volley Riggs threw the match. He was a lifetime gambler and owed the mafia over a million dollars. He bet against himself in the match against Billie Jean. In losing where he bet against himself, he paid back most of what he owed the mafia and cleaned his slate. Not to take away Billie Jean, this match was "Rigged" by Bobby.
The William sisters already tried that and failed spectacularly - at their prime, they challenged any male player ranked outside the 200 rank, claiming they could defeat them. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203, defeated both after downing two shandies and just finished a round of golf
@Markel Scott No she wouldn't. Even Serena herself admitted on a talk show (this was when she was in her actual prime) that she was unlikely to defeat a top male player.
I'm old cause I remember this shit ...somebody said Bobby Riggs threw the game cause he dominated the 1st female in the previous match......bullshit !! Sense the beginning of time...man does not like losing....especially to a woman.... and we still feel the same....and come on she was in better shape....he was 55 come be for real .....as stiff as he was he couldn't keep up with her
It's hard to deny he wasn't playing like a bumbling fool though. How is it he played so well in one match but made so many glaring errors in the other....compound that with the man's clear chronic gambling addiction and let's be honest with each other here... something here just doesn't add up.
Beautiful BJK far and away one of the greatest, like the opposite person of the the narcissist from Western Australia who had to start her own patronising church
I agree that women in Tennis and golf should have equal pay with the men, the women attract the same amount of crowds as the men do... but the WNBA shouldn't be demanding equal pay, because there is not enough fans for the sport...
If the film was to try to show that women are better and stronger than men if failed. In reality the woman player on one side was a very masculine lesbian at the top of her game and on the other side of the net in reality was a washed up player and he was unwell.
She’s amazing.
Brilliant story. Just saw the movie. Well told
you people dont know what you are alking about. it was a serious game, fair and square
Between a retired 55 year old and a woman in her 30's.
she was 29 or 30
Gina Talton Billy Jean kicked ass. Totally. You couldn’t fake those shots she put on his ass. Just as Rosie said A man his age shouldn’t be on the court with someone of Billy Jeans caliber. He asked for this and she was game for the challenge.
@@ajames.s9799 That is in the 30's dipshit
Anyone who has played tennis would know that the game was fixed
There's a lot of speculations that this match was actually fixed, as Serena Williams candidly said, if I were to go up against Andy Murray, I would probably lose 6-0 6-0, you got to love her sense of humor.
Watch the game with Bobby Riggs, seriously, the game was thrown. So lame.
What a LEGEND! Woooohooooo!
Lest we forget xx xx
Except Murray is in his prime right now. Billie defeated an out-of-shape 55 year-old who had been retired from the pro tour for about 20 years...
FlyerJon01 so. He asked for this and she kicked his ass. Sometimes it comes down to picking you battles. Oops. She won ! Sorry. I live in Houston and know people that were attending that very same game. There was no gimmicks. She kicked his ass.💥Boom 💥
I agree, she won a man over 25 years older, who was way past his best, but as the others say, it was his challenge, and she took him up on it.
@@allychildress905 he threw the match very clearly lol
There's serious doubt now whether Billie Jean really won the match. There's suspicion Bobby Riggs threw this match. This is not to take away Billie Jean's accomplishment. But Bobby Riggs (a lifetime gambler) was in heavy debt to the mafia and he bet against himself so he could pay back most of what he owed.You also have to look how badly Bobby beat Margaret Court just months prior in another Battle of the Sexes match in which he annihilated Margaret, who was the #1 player in the world. Compared it to the beating he took against Billie Jean where it looked he intentionally didn't move for some shots, it does look suspicious. Obviously with Bobby now gone we'll never know the truth.
I don't think so. If Bobby had won, he was going to get $100,000. - plus he got $50,000 for the Sugar Daddy endorsement. He also knew if he won, there'd be other women, or Billie Jean herself, asking for a re-match, where he'd make even more money. There's simply no incentive for him to lose.
@@billcurry1632 I think there was some betting made under the table which wasnt made public
Anyone who has played tennis would know that the game was fixed... except the furious feminists
At that time, Ilie Nastase was the world's #1 male tennis player I don't think she could have won a single game against him.
Amazing woman!!!
#MasculinitySoFragile
You do know that Serena was defeated by a 203 ranked man right? It is not chauvinism to know the fact that men are built better than women physically. This guy lost because he was 55.
Did u even watch the actual footage if the game? If u do could u provide link to it? Because i've seen the footage posted on youtube that make me can't help wondering that he throw away the match.
Bobbie tryed hard to syke out Billy Jean. Right. See all the things she did we would have missed if not for this movie. Dang i know she must feel like a third person ,but she made it for women. An earned an got her respect. Thanks
Lowkey booby wanted to help the feminist movement,he knew he gonna lose ,he was the first troll
No...I doubt he thought one way or the other. He didn’t actually disrespect women, he just wanted to hype up people and earn money. And the way to earn money was to win the match.
He was 55 years old while she was ranked #2 or #3, still in her physical prime... I'm perplex.
Sorry about my mistakes, I'm German.
+Legend33Larry You did fine. No mistakes. The reason that this was so important was that Riggs beat the #1 woman tennis player in that year, Margaret Court (four months before the King-Riggs match) by the lop-sided score of 6/2, 6/1. It set back women's tennis and women's rights in general in the USA (Title IX, the foundling women's tennis tour (in only its third season and struggling for acceptance), etc...). Billie did not want to play Bobby and refused to do so many times (because she believed that there was nothing to gain for women's tennis by playing him) until he humiliated Margaret Court, who played him only for the $$$. Then she knew she HAD to play him. She dedicated herself to preparing for the match and defeated Bobby easily because she was fully prepared.
I fully understand that, but he was 55 years old and out of shape. What's the point? Allegedly, many stated that Riggs bet on King's victory in order to make quick bucks. Probably we'll never know the whole story.
+Legend33Larry But, it was the same for Margaret Court, even though Bobby defeated her. You are probably way too young to have seen this match live, Larry, but (unfortunately) I am old enough to have seen it live and it was the biggest event of it's time...The build-up to it was like nothing you have ever seen before...Everyone was talking about it...It meant so much to women (and even men), and it changed everything for the next generation of fathers who started to raise their daughters differently after that match than before it. They encouraged their daughters, as they always had their sons, to play sports...and look at where women's sports is now. Women's tennis is on equal footing with the men's game...Equal prize $$$, once un-thought of, is now a part of all of the Grand Slam events... This match was HUGE...And anyone who saw the match KNOWS that Bobby didn't throw it. He tried his aSS off, but Billie had a strategy, stuck too it (even when she briefly fell behind), and ran him ragged...by the end of the match he was not much more than a damp washcloth...
+Verbal Volley Well said.
Verbal Volley Riggs threw the match. He was a lifetime gambler and owed the mafia over a million dollars. He bet against himself in the match against Billie Jean. In losing where he bet against himself, he paid back most of what he owed the mafia and cleaned his slate. Not to take away Billie Jean, this match was "Rigged" by Bobby.
who cares that he was 55 he was just one jellous man so many feminists still judging the true winner billie jean king
Lizza Simona UR PROFILE PIC IS EVERYTHINGGGGG
The need for money makes people do very humiliating things.
Roger federer vs William sisters. Let's do this
TROLL Roger respects women this isn’t the 70’s anymore.
The William sisters already tried that and failed spectacularly - at their prime, they challenged any male player ranked outside the 200 rank, claiming they could defeat them. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203, defeated both after downing two shandies and just finished a round of golf
@Markel Scott No she wouldn't. Even Serena herself admitted on a talk show (this was when she was in her actual prime) that she was unlikely to defeat a top male player.
Legend
I'm old cause I remember this shit ...somebody said Bobby Riggs threw the game cause he dominated the 1st female in the previous match......bullshit !!
Sense the beginning of time...man does not like losing....especially to a woman.... and we still feel the same....and come on she was in better shape....he was 55 come be for real .....as stiff as he was he couldn't keep up with her
It's hard to deny he wasn't playing like a bumbling fool though. How is it he played so well in one match but made so many glaring errors in the other....compound that with the man's clear chronic gambling addiction and let's be honest with each other here... something here just doesn't add up.
He was 55 and out of shape this was a stupid match
Bro. Just accept the fact that a woman beat a man.
Bobby Riggs is stupid, as you said.
@@camillebonanno7060 a 55 yo retired man, yes indeed
I love tennis,I have never play tennis.My table tennis also bad,. I don`t like sports.
Beautiful BJK far and away one of the greatest, like the opposite person of the the narcissist from Western Australia who had to start her own patronising church
Before my time. I was a Navratilova's Witness. We went door to door selling signed balls. McEnroe's. Not Martina's. What a racket.
Billie jean not my lover. She girl look that i am the one. But the kid not my son.(MJ)
Riggs reminds me of Larry David
Riggs was just an old hustler.
I agree that women in Tennis and golf should have equal pay with the men, the women attract the same amount of crowds as the men do... but the WNBA shouldn't be demanding equal pay, because there is not enough fans for the sport...
Let's not forget women's soccer(fútbol) where the women consistently preform better.
@@docd.t.torrance7845lmao you sure about that?
@@ntbored7727 Yes. 4 wins (women's fifa) to 0 (men's fifa)
Damn mj made a song about her lmao smfh
Yeah, he threw the match, but thank goodness he did. It would have been an unnecessary dent in the women's movement.
If the film was to try to show that women are better and stronger than men if failed. In reality the woman player on one side was a very masculine lesbian at the top of her game and on the other side of the net in reality was a washed up player and he was unwell.
Your an idiot.
The guy was 55 and an alcoholic and out of shape
Good thing he didn't challenge Flo-Jo lol!!!!!
bruh his last name should be Bobby rigged lol
She knew he'd lose for a few quid
As if she was 29 when she best that guy she looks 39.
So she beat an old fart! Wow!! Lol
Please don't reproduce.
Her greatest match was rigged.....literally
She was transgender
She is a biological woman...perhaps you are confusing her with Renee Richards.
Billy is a man (King)