Battle of Sexes match was a mafia fix

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9589625/the-match-maker

Pretty interesting....Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante Jr. and Frank Ragano fixed probably the most famous tennis match of the 70s.

Riggs was a hustler and a gambler who was around wiseguys all his life, so I have no problem believing that he bet against himself and threw the match. Especially when you consider that he manhandled the number one female player in the world just a few months prior to the King match. But I have a hard time believing that Marcello and Trafficante would have been directly involved in this. But I guess you never know .

ALready a thread:

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=736716#Post736716

Good read, and I have no doubt that he threw it.