Pro wrestling has long been viewed as low entertainment, leading to misconceptions about its fans. A darker side exists, highlighted by Vice’s “Dark Side of the Ring,” focusing on women’s mistreatment ...

Velvet McIntyre is an Irish-Canadian retired professional wrestler. After beginning her career in 1980, she wrestled in American independent promotions before joining the World Wrestling Federation ...

Several female WWE superstars have reached great heights and secured major world titles for an extended period of time. These include female wrestlers from the Attitude Era and Ruthless Aggression Era ...

There is little doubt, simply because of her role in the business for so many decades, that the preeminent female figure in the history of this industry would be Lillian Ellison. The most famous ever, ...

If you were a professional wrestling fan from roughly the mid-Fifties through the mid-Eighties, you would have encountered only one female world champion. That would have been The Fabulous Moolah, ...

The Montreal Screwjob was one of the most controversial moments in wrestling history, and even today — despite both Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels having moved past it — it's still often brought up as a ...

The post Emily Bett Rickards and Ash Avildsen on Bringing Wrestling Pioneer Mildred Burke to Life in Queen of the Ring: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Taking place from the 1930s to the 1950s, ...

Kyle Meredith sits down with actor Emily Bett Rickards (Arrow) and director/screenwriter Ash Avildsen (Paradise City, American Satan) to talk about their new movie Queen of the Ring. Listen above or ...

When she first stepped into the ring in the 1930s, Mildred Burke became one of the very first professional women wrestlers. Director Ash Avildsen's new film The Queen of The Ring explores the rise of ...