Emily Bett Rickards knew very little about professional wrestling before signing on to play one of its most important female ...

Josh Lucas, Francesca Eastwood and Deborah Ann Wohl co-star in an arch and inspiring film about athlete Mildred Burke.

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

The actor and writer/director tell the story of the first million dollar female athlete in history. Emily Bett Rickards and ...

Queen of the Ring uses the story of Mildred Burke to expertly explore women's pro wrestling in a time when they weren't ...

Wrestling biopics, while rare, are not new. Late 2023 saw the release of The Iron Claw, about the famed Von Erich family.

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 ...

"Queen of the Ring" star Damaris Lewis broke kayfabe as she told the crowd at AEW Revolution that wrestling matches were ...

The same can’t be said about the big screen. With scattered exceptions – “ . . . All the Marbles” (1981), “Fighting with My Family” (2019), “Racket Girls” (1951), and “Below the Belt” (1980), which ...

Queen of the Ring is a sports biopic about Mildred Burke, the pioneering female pro wrestler. Starring Emily Bett Rickards as ...

When she first stepped into the ring in the 1930s, Mildred Burke became one of the ... a warrior and an all-time wrestling single mother who defied the era that she was in," said Emily Bett Rickards, ...

When she first stepped into the ring in the 1930s ... single mother who defied the era that she was in," said Emily Bett Rickards, who plays the biopic's lead role. "Everything in her era was ...