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Emus are a sex-role reversed species. The female emus battle each other for mating rights, while male emus will construct the nest, brood the eggs, and rear the chicks, usually alone, though the female may remain to protect him during incubation. Females may mate with three males a season.
King published the book Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I"ve Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes in 2008.
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On September 20, 1973, at the age of twenty-nine, King defeated fifty-five-year-old professional tennis legend Bobby Riggs in three straight sets in the "Battle of the Sexes II" at the Houston Astrodome.
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Billy Jean King, in her prime, played a battle of the sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs, who misogynistically said "I'll tell you why I'll win. She's a woman and they don't have emotional stability." Billy fed off the tension and handily won.
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Karsten Braasch was "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager". After he had finished a round of golf and two beers, he beat Serena Williams 6–1 & then Venus Williams 6-2 in the 1988 battle of the sexes tennis match.
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Jimmy Connors bet $1 million that he would beat Martina Navratilova in straight sets and lose no more than eight games in their 1992 Battle of the Sexes match. He won 7-5, 6-2.
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Four months before facing Billie Jean King in the "Battle of the Sexes," Bobby Riggs played a match against Margaret Court, the world number 1 at the time. Riggs defeated Court in two quick sets (6-2, 6-1).
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Bobby Riggs was accused of throwing the battle of the sexes match to pay his mob debts.
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43 years ago 90 million people watched a competition between one man and one woman on TV-called "The Battle of the Sexes"
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Televangelist Jerry Falwell and Hustler Founder Larry Flint became friends in the years following their long legal battle over Free Speech (stemming from a parody claiming Falwell had drunken incestuous sex in an outhouse).
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The only winner of the million dollars on the US version of the 1 vs 100 game show was during the battle of the sexes where it was 1 man vs 100 women.
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The reason Louis CK pressures himself to never repeat any material is he was inspired by tennis player Billie Jean King. Before the Battle of the Sexes she remarked that the pressure of representing her gender motivated her to play better.
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The Williams sister were beat by a man in the Battle of te Sexes match where they claimed "they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200"
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