The Queen Of The Ring & Karate Kid Connection

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Queen Of The Ring director Ash Avildsen reveals how one conversation with the great Jim Ross led him to make this inspirational story about real-life women’s wrestling pioneer, Mildred Burke, and her storied life and career. He talks about casting actors like Josh Lucas, Walton Goggins, and Martin Cove alongside real wrestlers like AEW’s Toni Storm, Kamille, and Jim Cornette. He explains WWE’s initial involvement in the film, and how that fell apart at the last minute. Plus, he talks about his famous father, Oscar-nominated John Avildsen, and why he didn’t really meet him until Ash was 34-years-old! He talks about his dad casting Ralph Macchio over another A-list actor in The Karate Kid, what John believed to be the real, driving story behind Rocky, and the family philosophy behind movie-making and storytelling! See Queen Of The Ring in theaters now! https://www.queenofthering.movie/ STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy X: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Talk is Jericho, baby.
0:35.4	Talk is Jericho.
0:38.3	Talk is Jericho, baby. Talk is Jericho. Talk is Jericho, Mama, talk is me.
0:43.3	All right, welcome to Talk is Jericho. It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll, and it's St. Patrick's Day weekend. So raise your glass of green beer, your shamrock shake and have an Irish laugh with Duff McCaghan and the highly
0:56.2	anticipated joke.
0:57.5	Hello, the week.
1:01.3	Chris Jericho, Duff McCagan calling you.
1:03.5	Hope you doing well.
1:04.5	Hope everybody out there is doing well.
1:07.5	Listen earlier today, I just saw a guy with a trolley going up a hill.
1:12.3	It had a four leaves, clobbers, and rabbit's feet and horseshoes.
1:16.2	And I thought, wow, he's really pushing his luck.
1:19.2	Thank you very much.
1:20.5	Ah, yes.
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1:23.5	And Duffby, you find lots of gold at the end of your rainbow this St. Patrick's Day.
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