Just months earlier a tennis hustler Bobby Riggs destroyed one of the top women's tennis stars in the world in straight set in the "Mother's Day Massacre" but then later on in "The Battle of the Sexes" he lost in straight sets to a woman ranked lower in the world, Billie Jean King, missing a lot of the shots that were automatic in his career, did this inveterate gambler who had debts to the mob throw the match?
Or is the Truth in the Middle?