Google Mildred Burke and you’ll find vintage pictures of the pro wrestling icon showing off her impressive biceps. Those photos gave Emily Bett Rickards inspiration not only for what she needed ...

Avildsen, helms a mediocre copy of his father’s Oscar-winning boxing pic. Spanning two decades in Burke’s life, from her start in the 1930s to that aforementioned championship title in the ...

This biopic of pioneering female wrestler Mildred Burke, known to fans as the Kansas Cyclone, has a distinct Lifetime movie quality to its execution. It paints in the broadest strokes possible ...

Rickards portrays Burke, covering her training through the wrestling organization's creation. "Mildred was a pioneer ...