Ash Avildsen adapts Jeff Leen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book following the life of the first million-dollar female athlete, Mildred Burke, in Queen of the

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

Queen of the Ring is a sports biopic about Mildred Burke, the pioneering female pro wrestler. Starring Emily Bett Rickards as Burke, the film gained s

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 features an extended cameo by then-retired wrestler Mildred Burke as a trainer — there’s generally been a dearth of films featuring women wrestlers.

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 Wolfe (Josh Lucas) as they graduate from circus sideshows to professional matches to national renown.

Mercedes Mone nearly had a role in the Queen of the Ring film on the life of Mildred Burke. In her Mone Mag newsletter, Mone said that she was approached about

The "Arrow" star breaks down how she trained to play wrestling trailblazer Mildred Burke in the biopic.Emily Bett Rickards knew very little about professional wrestling before signing on to play one of its most important female trailblazers,

GLOW,” a series from Netflix that ran for three seasons in the late 2010s — before, frustratingly, seeing its announced fourth season canceled during the pandemic — showed that women’s