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TNA Wrestling Celebrates Women’s Wrestling with a Cross-Promotion Tribute to Former Wrestler Mildred Burke and the Golden Age of Female Athletes​

Press Release / March 13, 2025 / by TNA Wrestling Staff

TNA Wrestling announced today a cross-promotion partnership with the just-released movie “Queen of the Ring,” which hit movie theaters on March 7, honoring the remarkable contributions of women in wrestling, particularly, Mildred Burke.

“Queen of the Ring,” written and directed by Ash Avildsen, is based on a true story and spotlights female pro wrestler Mildred Burke, played by Emily Bett Rickards. The movie also stars Josh Lucas, Kelli Berglund and Walton Goggins, among others.

“Queen of the Ring” is inspired by the 2010 book The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen, and Burke’s own manuscripts.

Jim Ross is the executive producer of the film.

“TNA Wrestling is extremely proud to be partnering with ‘Queen of the Ring’ to showcase the incredible talent of women’s wrestling and the trailblazers who paved the way for generations to come,” said Rob Kligman, Chief Revenue Officer at Anthem Sports Group. “We are all about amplifying the film in the biggest and best ways possible and will feature key integrations at our upcoming Sacrifice live event on March 14 in El Paso, Texas, including branding on the ring canvas, an official match sponsorship, airing of behind-the-scenes footage, plus digital and social support. We are grateful to Ash and the entire team for the opportunity to collaborate and shine a spotlight on this incredible story.”

Mildred Burke, known as one of the first female wrestling champions, broke barriers and set new standards for women in sports. Her legacy is a critical part of wrestling history and serves as an inspiration for TNA’s mission to celebrate and promote the empowerment of women within the industry.

“I am deeply appreciative that TNA has chosen to honor all the females from the golden era of women’s wrestling, helping bring awareness to this incredible true story,” said Ash Avildsen, Director of Queen of the Ring. “Our fearless independent spirit in the world of wrestling aligns perfectly with Mildred Burke’s pioneering contributions, and we are excited to celebrate the rich history of women’s wrestling alongside TNA.”

“Queen of the Ring” premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival last October and is released by Sumerian Pictures.

The cross-promotion includes a Knockouts World Championship match sponsorship at Sacrifice.​

 

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““Queen of the Ring” premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival last October”

This is something that no one will care about…but I cover film festivals in Western New York and they didn’t even know it was the world premiere. They billed it as the western NY premiere. Even when the director was attending and they could have…you know…asked.

Festivals love to flaunt the biggest type of premiere they can so it’s funny to me that they didn’t know before they made their press releases.

Not the first time I’ve seen it happen of course. A genre festival in Rochester that goes out of its way to screen movies that haven’t been available anywhere near WNY before didn’t realize they were screening Skinamarink for the first time anywhere in the world until the director was sitting in the theater and offhandedly mentioned it.

It just cracks me up how hard these people work on these festivals and how they would bend over backwards to get world premieres…and sometimes they just fall through the cracks so easily. And believe me…it’s always a small number of people killing themselves to get movies, make arrangements and sell the festival.

Theres another one around here run by one local writer/director who is the best at it. He gets to filmmakers before they’ve even finished post production to see if theres any way they could have it ready by his festival. He gets stuff I’ve seen take over a year to release after he screens it. And sometimes it’s a new cut or has a better score because they said screw it and sent him what they had. Of course..I’ve seen some real shit movies at that one…but also the most outrageous ones. It’s actually the reason I stopped assigning scores to festival reviews until they get an official release. Things change

I don’t know why I felt like posting all that at two in the morning.