Battle of the Sexes

I think some of the segments might be different.

No, we've got Battle of the Sexes on there.

We've got Battle of the Sexes, which is a completely new idea.

Tell me...

Tell me there's a secret sound on

I don't know that it was all that revolutionary in the 1960s and into the 1970s.

I suppose by then, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Virginia Slims, Battle of the Sexes, the other Billie Jean.

Do you, did you ever hear about the other Billie Jean? She was a tennis player.

Cyrus, do you ever hear about her?

Yeah.

Well, it was just...

It w- it was an illusion, an allusion to the rise of the feminist movement where in the '70s especially, as, as I remember it as a teenager, Billie Jean King was an icon of feminism, at least in the sports world, and do you remember the Battle of the Sexes with Bobby Riggs, the tennis game?

Yeah.

you

know? We're doing something like crossing the mainstream, battle of the sexes, you know?

This is gender equality.

Talk to me about sort of Gordon's role as the figurehead for the sport, because he is super dominant, you know, sort of the Lewis Hamilton a couple of years ago in F1, where it kind of didn't really seem like that much of a competition.

It was at the Astrodome.

It was the Battle of the Sexes.

And Billie Jean King beat him.

Now, again, he was 55 years old at the time.

Like I said, he's on Medicaid.

Battle of the Sexes was over once and for all when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in three straight tennis sets.

What a downer that was.

I was, man.

I was, I was...

Initially, when I saw it, I didn't see the words, I didn't see the, the line "spoken word," and I thought, "Are we gonna get another Battle of the Sexes match between Billie Jean King, uh, and John McEnroe on a tennis court at the O2 Arena?"

I'm not sure-

I mean-

... it's gonna quite live up to the same [laughs] level.

[laughs] Yeah, that was 1973, the original Battle of the Sexes, so that would be, what, 54 years since the last one she did.

But, well, we'll see.

We'll see.

She founded the WTA, and she has been fighting for equal pay in the sport since the beginning of time.

She had the famous 1973 win over Bobby Riggs, Battle of the Sexes.

There were 90 million viewers worldwide.

For that match.