(Allegedly) Bobby Riggs threw the "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King

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WHEN HAL SHAW heard the voices at the Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa, Fla., on a winter night some 40 years ago, he turned off the bench light over his work table and locked the bag room door. He feared burglars. Who else would be approaching the pro shop long after midnight? Then Shaw, who was there late rushing to repair members' golf clubs for the next day's tournament, heard the pro shop's front door unlock and swing open.

Peering through a diamond-shaped window, Shaw, then a 39-year-old assistant golf pro, watched four sharply dressed men stroll into the pro shop. He says he instantly recognized three of them: Frank Ragano, a Palma Ceia member and mob attorney whose wife took golf lessons from Shaw, and two others he knew from newspaper photographs -- Santo Trafficante Jr., the Florida mob boss whom Ragano represented, and Carlos Marcello, the head of the New Orleans mob. Trafficante and Marcello, now deceased, were among the most infamous mafia leaders in America; Marcello would later confide to an FBI informant that he had ordered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A fourth man, whom Shaw says he didn't recognize, joined them.

Shaw's workroom was about 20 feet from the men, who sat at a circular table. Through the window to the darkened bag room door, he could see them, but they couldn't see him. Shaw says he was "petrified" as he tried to remain completely still, worrying that the men would find him lurking there. Then Shaw heard something he'd keep secret for the next 40 years: Bobby Riggs owed the gangsters more than $100,000 from lost sports bets, and he had a plan to pay it back.

Shaw, now 79, told the story of what he saw and heard that Tampa night to a friend late last year for the first time. This spring, he told it to "Outside the Lines."
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Welp. Feminists about to be MAD today.

 
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Our parent's generation must have been one dumb ass generation, never knew anything about this, other than the match.

A few months before the match, he beat the crap out of the current Women's number 1 at that time. And yet people didn't think something funny might be going on , when they saw BJK beat him like that. Dude did a terrible job selling that shyt, looked so obvious now.:laff::laff:
 
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frush11 said:
Our parent's generation must have been one dumb ass generation, never knew anything about this, other than the match.

A few months before the match, he beat the crap out of the current Women's number 1 at that time. And yet people didn't think something funny might be going on , when they saw BJK beat him like that. Dude did a terrible job selling that shyt, looked so obvious now.:laff::laff:
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What made it even more funny was he lost in all three sets. Vs. the #1, he played two sets and dominated. BJK knows Bobby threw the match. He owed the mob and needed some cash.
 
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:ohhh: Never knew this

@frush11 our parents generation wasn't dumb about this there just wasn't as much info out there about these sort of things like there is now. If there had been social media back then just imagine how many conspiracies, assassination attempts & cover ups from that era wouldn't have happened :wow:
 
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