The film then goes into flashback to tell the story of said athlete, Mildred Burke (Emily Bett Rickards), a female pioneer in the male-dominated professional wrestling world. Writer and director ...

Some of Burke’s students include WWE Hall of Famer The Fabulous Moolah and former WWE Women’s Champion Bertha Faye. For her incredible contributions to furthering women’s wrestling, Mildred ...

When Vancouver actor Emily Bett Rickards got the script for the feature film Queen of the Ring, she didn’t know anything about wrestler Mildred Burke. Burke, who died at age 73 in 1989 ...

So when Rickards received an email from her agent about the role of wrestler Mildred Burke in the film Queen of the Ring, she dove deep into researching the icon’s life—long before she ever ...

There is nothing at all wrong with blonde Mildred Burke’s appearance (see cut ... She is one of the dozen women who claim to be the female wrestling champion of the world.

An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied ...

Emily Bett Rickards knew very little about professional wrestling before signing on to play one of its most important female trailblazers, Mildred Burke, in the biopic Queen of the Ring. But after ...

When Vancouver actor Emily Bett Rickards got the script for the feature film Queen of the Ring, she didn’t know anything about wrestler Mildred Burke. The subject of the film, Burke’s wrestling career ...

An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and ...