Serena Williams did not maintain once again from sharing how she feels about Harrison Butker‘s previous controversial comments. When internet hosting this year’s ESPY Awards on Thursday, July 11, the 42-calendar year-aged former tennis pro dissed the 28-yr-old Kansas Metropolis Chiefs player as she pointed out women’s accomplishments in sports.

“So, go in advance and appreciate women’s sports like you would any other athletics, because they are sports,” she mentioned, just before introducing, “Except you, Harrison Butker. We really don’t have to have you.”

While Harrison attended the award demonstrate, cameras did not capture his response to Serena’s remark.

Two months prior, the soccer player produced headlines for his commencement deal with at Benedictine College in Kansas. During his speech, Harrison developed feedback about women’s professions and reproductive legal rights, the LGBTQIA+ group and President Joe Biden‘s suggestions.

“So, go ahead and appreciate women’s athletics like you would any other athletics, since they are athletics.” – Venus Williams

“Apart from you, Harrison Butker. We really don’t have to have you.” – Serena Williams

“At all. Like, ever.” – Quinta Brunson #ESPYS pic.twitter.com/RhvxfiHUWN

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“For the women existing these days, congratulations on an incredible accomplishment,” he reported. “You really should be happy of all that you have attained to this place in your youthful life. I want to discuss instantly to you briefly for the reason that I feel it is you, the gals, who have had the most diabolical lies informed to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this phase and are wondering about all the promotions and titles you are heading to get in your occupation? Some of you may go on to direct prosperous professions in the environment, but I would enterprise to guess that the vast majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the small children you will deliver into this globe.”

The athlete then claimed that his wife, Isabelle Butker, “would be the first to say that her lifetime definitely commenced when she began dwelling her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”

Harrison’s speech swiftly went viral on the web, and a number of celebrities and some of his fellow Chiefs teammates spoke out about his responses. Additionally, social media shoppers criticized him for his private beliefs.

Months following the graduation took place, Harrison defended his comments while appearing at a gala in Nashville, noting, “If it wasn’t apparent that the timeless Catholic values are hated by numerous, it is now.”