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Billie Jean King took Bobby Riggs's $100,000 bet
In 1973, Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court and challenged Billie Jean King to a $100,000 winner-take-all match.
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Before more than 30,000 people at the Houston Astrodome and an estimated 90 million viewers worldwide, King answered him in three sets. The US Open had already promised equal prize money; the wider fight continued.
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