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

"I can't sing and I can't dance," Mildred Burke tells her future manager, husband, business partner (and later ex-husband and ...

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

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

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

Emily Bett Rickards hit the gym and the ropes to play wrestling pioneer Mildred Burke in "Queen of the Ring," which weaves in fact with fiction.

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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