Bobby Riggs a know chauvinist had found another way to make money. This prior #1 player bet that he could beat any professional Women tennis player even at the age of 55. He first approached billie Jean about it but, she turned down the offer and wanted to focus on her professional tennis career. So Riggs asked Margaret court another top women professional tennis player at the time and she agreed. But on Mother's Day 1973 Magret lost to riggs in what was known as the Mother's day massacre. After this Billie Jean know she had to play Riggs not for herself but for all women out there. Leading up to the match Riggs was very arrogant and said many comments to the press including: “she’s a woman and they don’t have the emotional stability [to win]” and  “women belong in the bedroom and kitchen, in that order.” Besides talking crap to the press spent his time partying and soaking up the spot light. Meanwhile King was all business and spent lots of time training and avoiding the press leading up to the match.​​​​​​​

On september 20th 1973 Billie Jean King Beat Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in what would be known as the battle of the sexes and the most televised sports event in history

       The day after the match you would find most newspapers with the same headline “Billie beats Bobby”. Although they shared the same title they showed an array of different opinions. Some men thought that it was staged and wrote articles with titles like “Libber Vs. Lobber”. They described the female sports commentator, Rosemary Calas as a “Voracious Libber” and portrayed her as petty in comments like; "she even complained about the 7 to 4 ratio of linesmen to women". On the other hand there were many women celebrating this victory knowing it was a step forward towards equal rights. In these articles you would see them describe Riggs as “helpless” and “cocky” and they described riggs supporters as “fat cats”