Director Ash Avildesen’s Queen of the Ring is based on the true story of Mildred 
Burke. In a time when women’s pro wrestling 
was illegal, a small-town single mother risked everything to change the sport forever—becoming the first million-dollar female athlete in history. She is overall a three-time women’s world champion under different incarnations and recognitions. Burke’s heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the NWA World Women’s Champion for 
almost twenty years. Burke started out in 1935, wrestling men at carnivals. In the 1930s, Burke wrestled over 200 men, but only lost to one of them. She was managed by her second husband, promoter Billy Wolfe. She is a charter member of WWE Hall of Fame’s Legacy Wing, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, Women’s Wrestling Hall 
of Fame, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. The film is written, directed and co-produced by Ash Avildsen. Avildsen was inspired tp make the film after reading the book The Queen of the Ring: Sex, 
Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen, and Burke’s own manuscripts. Director Ash Avildsen stops by to talk about the long time between reading the inspiring book about Burke and the production of Queen of the Ring, getting a terrific performance from the lead actor Emily Bett Rickards and working with a sterling cast of performers that includes Josh Lucas, Marie Avgeropoulos, Walton Goggins, Francesca Eastwood, Deborah Ann Woll and Gavin Casalegno
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Reviews:
“Hugely entertaining…The film stars Emily Bett Rickards in a breakout performance…The wrestling sequences are particularly visceral…The film looks terrific…The acting proves consistently powerful… But it’s ultimately Rickards, who handles the intense physical and emotional demands of her role with consummate skill, that give the film its heart and soul.” – Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
“Ash Avildsen’s Queen of the Ring is a must-see for lovers of sports films, biopics, and period piece media.” – Ethan Padgett, Film Threat
“Queen of the Ring gives Burke full credit as a force who changed women’s wrestling forever and is well worth seeking out for wrestling fans and newcomers alike.” – Carmen Paddock, MovieJawn
“Queen of the Ring excels in matching the feel of the era, from the way the wrestlers dress, to the look of the wrestling show, with the design and cinematography making you feel like you were dropped into a world that’s now nearly a century gone by.” – Shawn Van Horn, Collider
“Enormously entertaining, genuinely heartfelt and empowering triumph that deserves to become a new classic sports movie.” – Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru