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Gambler Amarillo Slim challenged tennis pro Bobby Riggs to a ping pong match. They agreed that Slim would supply the rackets and Riggs would choose which one to play with. Slim showed up with iron skillets and won. He later challenged a ping pong champ and won, this time with empty Coke bottles.
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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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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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Bobby Riggs threw his match to Billy Jean King
