Emily Bett Rickards’ latest movie, The Queen of the Ring, has become one of the most talked-about films in the realm of ...

Google Mildred Burke and you’ll find vintage pictures of the pro wrestling icon showing off her impressive biceps. Those photos gave Emily Bett Rickards inspiration not only for what she needed ...

[Editor's note: The following contains some spoilers for Queen of the Ring.] Mildred Burke's inspiring journey in 'Queen of the Ring' challenges gender norms and showcases her resilience as a ...

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's and 50's. Many casual members of ...

For some, the sport of pro wrestling might bring to mind big — often muscular, usually athletic — men. But for close to a century, a contingent of women — generally smaller and athletic ...

“I can’t sing and I can’t dance,” Mildred Burke tells her future manager, husband, business partner (and later ex-husband and rival) Billy Wolfe. “But I can tell a story and beat some ass.

When she first stepped into the ring in the 1930s, Mildred Burke became one of the very first professional women wrestlers. Director Ash Avildsen's new film The Queen of The Ring explores the rise ...

Avildsen, helms a mediocre copy of his father’s Oscar-winning boxing pic. Spanning two decades in Burke’s life, from her start in the 1930s to that aforementioned championship title in the ...

In her new film, Queen of the Ring, premiering Saturday at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Rickards trained physically to portray real-life wrestler Mildred Burke. "I was like, 'Oh, I feel like I ...