These Were Bobby Riggs' Last Words to Billie Jean King 

Steve Carell was suitable for this role , I can't imagine someone else

Carell looks astonishingly like Riggs in this film.

I was a sports fan in 73. I wasn't gonna miss that match for anything in the world. I really wasn't rooting for anyone. I knew Riggs was saying everything tongue in cheek. I also knew Billie Jean was in her prime.

It is too bad that the 1973 showdown is not available in its entirety.

People who hail this as a victory for women/feminism conveniently forget that Riggs easily beat Margaret Court - the world #1 - shortly before the BJK match. All the smart money was on Riggs but he was massively in debt to the mafia bookie. He threw the match, the mob made millions on mug bets, King took the $100,000 prize and Riggs' debt was cancelled. Everyone's a winner. You don't see current top female players queuing up to play John McEnroe because the result is obvious. The so-called battle of the sexes was nothing but a circus act and anyone who can't see that either knows nothing about tennis or is a deluded man-hating "feminist".

If the controversy is so alive they should make a match of this kind every year. I don't follow tennis but I'd definitely watch those for the drama.

I remember seeing this on TV in 1973 M. Krebbs, A. Dubois, and I watched this together

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Saw that movie last night, awesome movie.

He was a world class hustler....he took the odds in both matches....won, then lost....and pocketed $$$

I remember that match and it was a beautiful time. And more beautiful is how Billie Jean King, in later years, says it was not about feminism, but about equalism (not those words exactly). But, that everybody counts.

Saw the match for the first time. I don't watch tennis but I know when something is fixed. It looked like a father playing a child.

He threw the match. How delusional do you have to believe she beat him. An absolute show and a fix of a match.

He never took it seriously

Fantastic movie…excellent cast!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Not to take anything away from Billie Jean King because she was a talented tennis player but anyone who thinks her match against Bobby Riggs was just about feminism, equality, and women's rights is a fool. This was a good film and I remember Emma Stone's character Billie Jean King referring to Steve Carell's character Bobby Riggs as a clown at some point. She was right because he was a clown. What she didn't realize at the time though is that he had every right to be a clown because they were both in a circus. The public and media wanted Riggs to be a chauvinistic pig so that is the role he played for them. They wanted King to be the woman who knocked Riggs off his chauvinistic high horse and so that is the role she ended up playing... whether she knew it or not. As far as the match goes, King was twenty-nine years old playing against a man in his mid-fifties who was washed up and years past his prime. Even Riggs knew that he couldn't beat King and that the sport had pretty much past him by but he was determined to put on the show that the media and public wanted. The sad, ugly truth of this historic event is that both King and Riggs were being used by people who wanted them to represent something.

Wills vs Neer is another interesting FvM match. Wills beat Neer who was ranked as high as 20 and was only 32. The women's game hadn't been around that long either.

The first time I ever played tennis I used a 1955 Bobby Riggs tennis racket.

Now in 2020 we can have the John McEnroe vs. Serena Williams match.

I can’t believe this happened

The 70s were so much fun glad I was there best time of my life.

Even McEnroe said Riggs threw the match *subliminally*

29 year old woman vs 55 year old man.

Steve Carrel does look like Bobby Riggs, Emma Stone is to cute to be Billie Jean although they did dress her good for the movie

Now he knows

I am proud to say that my golf partner was one of the most influential people in ladies tennis, Bobby Riggs. He was a key player in getting women equal pay in professional tennis.

Bobby Riggs confessed before he died

no disrespect but she was 29 he was 55 and 26 year age difference she was at the top of her game, he was retired for 20 years, that would be like Serena Williams playing John macanro now

"Battle of the sexes"

He took that to his death

Nice to no it was a joke ! Loved Billy Jean , fila la Costa those were the days

We saw Bobby riggs in Missouri

How many children does Billie Jean King have, to be this great role model for women?

Bobby Riggs is arguably one of greatest hustlers ever

Never heard of these people seem to me It was a good match Billy Jean King vs Bobby Riggs.

Bobby Riggs took that to his death

She was 29, he was 55. Of course she has the advantages.

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Thank you Larry riggs

He threw the match

Larry Riggs has been good

The age gap b/n them is crazy

I never knew this happened hahahahah

Those weren't the last words, because they became friends arter

Michael Jackson shoul have sung:"Billie Jean King is not my lover, she just a grandma claims that she was the one, but the Riggs was 55!' Bidi bidi bum.

That day was about B.S., MONEY ALONG WITH RECOGNITION.

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I really wasn’t interested in this film but Steve Carell was very good and made it watchable but a man who had been retired for 15 years playing a 29 year old is not really an interesting story. They should get a match between Federer and Serena. Now I would watch that.

Was the big thing they did together faking the match?

This was, and remains such a joke. King was #1 and yet, the 200th rank male would've beaten soundly.

Threw the match.

We need more bobby Riggs in the world to fight the feminist metoo.

Any tennis player who watched the match could see the fix was in

Do did he throw it or what?

WWE???

Had he lived he would be dead

And now my woman wears my pants. Thanks Bob!

i dont get how this match is taken seriously he was 55 years old

Why didn't Billie play somoene who was her age?

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This was an amazing movie, love Bobby riggs i watched some his real interviews and he was a fine and funny man! Billie Jean made a good stand for rights aswell!

55 years old at that time. Wow.

I was not alive when this happened in fact I've only been alive 12 and a half years but looking back at it it looked like a historical moment but the bobby riggs was like in his 50s when this happened and Billie jeane was 30 so it's not really a surprise she won

Serena Williams said in a interview that she would lose 6-0 6-0 6-0 against the top men player. That sais it all.

Hey I know this guy!

This is what they made us do. They said, okay. If you want equality, you have to prove it. They said, compete against men, literally and physically. Publicly. They, the establishment, wanted to humiliate women. Watch “ The Newlyweds “ a game show. You’ll see.

So basically he was trolling the feminists for a laugh and maybe not quite as sexist as he made himself out to be.

They were good friends so the whole feud was just an act. He had the last laugh.

No offense but they put a retired man vs a young woman

"We did something big together." So they rigged the match?

I always chuckle at the Billie Jean King/Riggs match in 1973. She was smack dab in the middle of her prime and Riggs was an old man. He was 55. It was 34 years since he was at the top of his game. Basically what we saw was the best female tennis player in the world was able to beat a male tennis player from decades ago who was old enough to be her father. It is laughable that feminists think this was something that proved they could compete with men. 45 years later.............they still can't. What would be brave is the best tennis player in the world (men) going up against the best female. If they win that match then it is worth waking up to.

I am bobby Riggs jr for real

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55 year old vs 29 year old lmao... and he was a gambler and threw the match hahah this ia proven!!

riggs beat margaret court easy ,and she won twice as many grand slams as king so he may have let king win.

Bobby Riggs was 55 Billie Jean was 29 at the height of her power.little wonder she won.If she had played Borg or Conners.she would not have had a cat in hells chance of winning.i have seen the movie.it was as much about Bille Jean coming to terms with her sexuality as it was about tennis.

This is a joke the man was 55 and she was 29 Google it if you don't believe me this is so funny

what a joke, bobby riggs was 55 years old and billie jean king was 29 years old when they played. If women can truly compete against men, then let's just remove the womens league and have one league for both sexes, see how that works out, lmao

Bobby got SCREWED😂😂😂

A 29 year old female tennis professional, the best in the whole world. Played a 55 year old troll who hasnt played professional tennis in over 15 years... and after a competitive game, she won...

Riggs was a compulsive gambler who was in serious debt to the mob. This match was a way for Riggs to get out of debt and stash some money offshore. He purposely threw the match. In the end debts and greed were more important than equal rights for Bobby the hustler.

Margaret Court "I deliver the Word of God, lay hands on the sick, speak in the heavenly tongue and give hugs to all who need them,” she says. “People sing, dance and praise the Lord.” Her church distributes truckloads of clothes and 25 tonnes of food each week to Perth’s homeless, hungry and poor."

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3rd!!!

Correct.he must have played her in a bad day !!

This movie was bubblegum and so was the match. Was BJK a great tennis player? Yes indeed! But what did her beating BR prove? Not a damn thing! At 29 she beat a 55 year old in a competitive match that he didn't even train for, and bleeding hearts jump for joy! LOL. Pathetic. BR at 29 would have smoked BJK. Maybe BJK should have played John Newcombe in '73. LMFAO. But some love to believe fairy tales.

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Riggs beat her before, top women players got destroyed by old and below average male tennis players again and again. And yet, they only make a movie on the game that was openly rigged and thrown by Riggs

Bobby Riggs threw the match and look at the age difference anyway. A woman can never compete against the man for the same reason there will never be a woman in the NFL. I never saluted a female officer as a soldier. There were times for a cam claws to insubordination and a trip to Leavenworth is what it could have been if it played itself out like I know it could have....

I don’t get what the battle is. A man twice the age of his opponent who is the current world champion at the time loses in a close match. That’s not very fair

I don’t know if Riggs threw the match,he was a hustler, but he knew how to provoke the feminists,and could lead them around by the rings in their noses. Just like I’m doing now.