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

The new film, “Queen of the Ring” tells the story of wrestler Mildred Burke, a trailblazer for women’s sports. Burke rose to ...

Emily Bett Rickards plays Burke, a single mother who took to the world of "lady wrestling" in the 1930s — when it was still illegal in several states — and helped put it on the map, and make herself ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

It doesn't take much to get WWE Superstars Trinity Fatu (Naomi) and Jimmy Uso away from the business sometimes. In this case, ...

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, ...