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

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

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

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 ...

Emily Bett Rickards ("Arrow") stars in the new movie "Queen of the Ring," which will be released to theaters this Friday, March 7th.

Based on the book of the same title by Jeff Leen, Queen of the Ring tells the story of Mildred Burke (in a dazzling performance by Emily Bett Rickards), one of the very first professional ...

In Ash Avildsen's new film Queen of The Ring, Emily Bett Rickards plays the role of Mildred Burke, a single mother who defied the odds in the 1930s to become the first million-dollar female athlete in ...

Now, Emily Bett Rickards takes on an entirely new challenge: portraying legendary 1930s pro wrestler Mildred Burke in Queen of the Ring, a big-screen adaption of Jeff Leen’s biography of the ...

As a groundbreaking figure for athletes, entertainers, and women in general, Burke’s story is inspirational, and Rickards has already received strong acclaim for her performance after the film ...

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 ...