Serena Williams Slams Sports' Gender Pay Gap Problem By Mocking Baseball’s Biggest Scandal
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The tennis champion served a serious truth bomb during her opening monologue at the ESPY Awards.
Serena Williams proved how absurd the sports world’s gender pay-gap is with a powerful punchline.
During her opening monologue at Thursday night’s ESPY Awards, the tennis legend poked fun at one of the “craziest stories in sports this year”: when an investigation found Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani had been fleeced of over $16 million dollars by his translator, Ippei Mizuhara, over two years.
After calling the scandal one of the “craziest stories in sports this year,” Williams said, “Y’all, male athletes get paid so much more than female athletes that they don’t even notice losing $16 million.
“Believe me, I would have noticed,” the 23-time Grand Slam champion added with sass.
After a federal investigation, Mizuhara plead guilty to bank and tax fraud, admitting he stole the eight-figure sum to help pay off an astronomical $142 million gambling debt.
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