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Post by TheInfoMan on Aug 26, 2013 13:18:49 GMT -5
Bob Ley @bobleyespn 2h
OTL ICYMI -- 230pm et ESPNews. Did Bobby Riggs throw the 1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match vs. Billie Jean King?? @dvnjr exclsuive rpt.
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pcdad
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Post by pcdad on Aug 27, 2013 9:59:27 GMT -5
On September 20, 1973, Billy Jean King beat Bobby Riggs 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 in a match dubbed, "The Battle of the Sexes."
Four months prior to the match, Bobby Riggs had beaten Margaret Court the #1 ranked women's tennis player in the world. Those within tennis thought Riggs threw the King match. He did not train in the four months prior to the match and put on 15 pounds.
There was a meeting in New Orlean? home of the Astrodome where the match was played that included Carlos Marcello of New Orleans the man who may have orchestrated the JFK assassination.
Livarsi 'na pietra di la scarpa. (Take the stone out of my shoe.)
Also in attendance was Santos Trafficante of Miami. There was an unidentified man in attendance, Bobby Riggs?, who owed gambling debts and is alleged to have received $100K to pay down those debts.
To my Providence friends, I mean no disrepect. - Gabba tosta
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Cteve
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Post by Cteve on Aug 27, 2013 20:25:52 GMT -5
As I remember it Riggs played a passive game. Not that he was a serve/volly player anyway but he'd just hit spin serves which King would jump on hitting deep returns.
For a mid-50's former Big W champ he didn't seem particularly fit. In his first sex-match with #1 Marg.Court she choked badly and made many unforced errors. King didn't play that way.
Riggs may have given a poor effort but he likely would have anyway (to King). If he did what Org Crime wanted it was just pumping up the big money on himself so they could bet Billie
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