Emily Bett Rickards plays the title role in “Queen of the Ring,” based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the pioneering ...

Still, though there’s no denying that the wrestlers in both “The Iron Claw” and “Queen of the Ring” gave their blood, sweat ...

The story of pioneer “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke (Emily Bett Rickards) finally hits the big screen in “Queen of the Ring." ...

Most ardent wrestling fans have at the very least heard the name Mildred Burke, even if they are not intimately familiar with her rise to fame in the 1930's, 40 ...

Inspiration comes first. The title of world’s greatest doesn’t happen without it. Before Chyna became the warrior princess of ...

Anyway, the film shows Burke and Wolfe as the crowds grow and the money starts flowing. As we learn in the end credits, Burke ...

Mildred Burke put women’s wrestling on the map and became the first woman athlete to make a million. Yet she’s virtually ...

However, before any of these names made their mark, there was Mildred Burke, a female wrestler who rose up in the 1930s and ...

Starring Emily Bett Rickards, Queen of the Ring tells the true story of women’s wrestling pioneer Mildred Burke, who juggled ...

GLOW,” a series from Netflix that ran for three seasons in the late 2010s — before, frustratingly, seeing its announced fourth season canceled during the pandemic — showed that women’s professional ...

Rather randomly, Mildred stumbles upon a wrestling match in Kansas City and proclaims the sport her destiny. The story continues chronologically, tracking Mildred and her manager turned husband Billy ...

Ash Avildsen adapts Jeff Leen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book following the life of the first million-dollar female athlete, ...