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

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

Queen of the Ring is a look at the birth of women's wrestling through Mildred Burke, with Emily Bett Rickards like you've ...

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

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

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.

What do you know about women’s wrestling? Personally, if you asked me this I would have to simply answer: nothing. Nothing ...

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

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 ... 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 ...

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 ...