No-Contest Wrestling: “Queen Of The Ring” Producer Ash Avildsen

The Rich Eisen Show

Rich Eisen Productions

Sports, Football, Comedy

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Please check out other RES productions: Overreaction Monday: http://apple.co/overreactionmonday What the Football with Suzy Shuster and Amy Trask: http://apple.co/whatthefootball The Jim Jackson Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-jackson-show/id1770609432 No-Contest Wrestling with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-contest-wrestling/id1771450708 -------- Filmmaker Ash Avildsen joins the show to discuss “Queen of the Ring”, his passion project about the legendary Mildred Burke, a small-town single mother who dominated the sport of wrestling and became the 1st million-dollar female athlete in history. Ash talks to O’Shea and TJ about the obstacles of bringing this story to the big screen and how he was able to get some of wrestling’s biggest stars to participate. Ash also discusses his relationship with his late father, Academy Award Director John G. Avildsen, and how his childhood shaped the man, father, and filmmaker that he is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the No Contest Wrestling Podcast.
0:39.1	It's good to see you.
0:40.4	We hope it's good to see us.
0:41.8	I am the heel that you love to.
0:42.8	Hey, O'Shea Jackson Jr., aka Petty Guerrero.
0:46.3	Hey, yo, it's me.
0:47.8	It's me.
0:48.2	It's the T-I-O-G-2-JG.
0:51.8	T-J.
0:52.2	Jefferson.
0:52.9	We have a huge episode today. Yeah, we do.
0:55.0	As you see, I'm in full Hollywood Shay form.
0:58.0	That's how you do.
0:59.0	It's because we have the director of Queen of the Ring joining us, a man, Ash.
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