Millie McKenzie

Millie McKenzie (June 17, 2000) is a British female professional wrestler. She is best known for her continued work on the British independent circuit in promotions including Fight Club: PRO, PROGRESS Wrestling and Defiant Wrestling. McKenzie has also wrestled internationally in promotions including Japan's Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and American promotions including CHIKARA and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). McKenzie is a former one-time Pro Wrestling Revolver Tag Team Champion, former one-time Defiant Women's Champion, former one-time Fight Forever Wrestling Women's World Champion, a former one-time Kamikaze Pro Tag Team Champion and a one-time Sendai Girls Junior Champion.
== Professional wrestling career ==
===Early years===
Millie debuted as early as April 16, 2016 at the age of 15. Her earliest known match was in Full Force Wrestling. Under the ring name Millie Marks, she wrestled Alexis Rose to a No Contest finish. From that point forward, Millie spent her early years in matches for numerous promotions including Ironfist Wrestling, Monmouthshire Championship Wrestling, PROGRESS Wrestling, Leicester Championship Wrestling, British Empire Wrestling and Wrestle Midlands, International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom.
===Ironfist Wrestling (2016-2017)===
Under the ring name Millie Marks, she debuted on June 4 at Gang Wars 2016. There she defeated Lana Austin. Three months later on September 24 during the 5th Anniversary Show, Marks won her first championship in a three-way match defeating Bea Priestley and Lana Austin to become the new Ironfist Women's Champion. On November 12 at Ironfist Rudos & Tecnicos, Marks defeated Evelyn to retain the title. Her second title defense was held the following month on December 10 at A Very Merry Christmas Show. There she defeated Nixon Newell. During the course of 2017, Marks defended the IronFist Women's Championship against challengers Sierra Loxton, [[Dani Luna] and Evelyn. Her last title defense was held on 19 August 2017 during a show in Herefordshire, England, where she lost the Women's Title to Melanie Price.
===Fight Club: PRO (2017-present)===
Debuting under the ring name Millie McKenzie, debuted on June 23, 2017 at FCP Stranger Than Fixxion, in a singles match lost against Kay Lee Ray. She finished the year with an appearance on 1 December at Infinity. There she competed in the 2017 Infinity Trophy Tournament, where McKenzie was eliminated in the first round by Omari.
The following year McKenzie's first title match was held on February 23, 2018 at A Tribute To Francois Trebec. There she challenged the reigning champion Chris Brookes for the FCP Championship. Four months later on June 1 at World Warriors, McKenzie and tag team partner Pete Dunne defeated American team Besties In The World (Davey Vega & Mat Fitchett) to win the PWR Tag Team Championship. Later that month, McKenzie and Dunne lost the Tag Team titles on June 29 at International Tekkers: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted, in a three-way tag team title match. The following month on July 27 at Big Strong Bois McKenzie & Pete Dunne competed for the FCP Tag Team Championship in a Four-Way Elimination match. McKenzie ended the year with a match on October 26 at Infinity. There she competed in the 2018 Infinity Tournament during which she was eliminated in the first roun by Jordan Devlin.
McKenzie returned the following year on January 7, 2019 at Project Tokyo. During the event, McKenzie teamed with DASH Chisako in a tag match lost to team Beauty Bear (Chihiro Hashimoto & Mika Iwata). The next month on February 1 at Wrestle House, McKenzie won a singles match defeating Yuu.
===Defiant Wrestling (2017-2018)===
McKenzie debuted on the December 15, 2017 episode of Defiant Wrestling, during which she defeated Little Miss Roxxy. The following year, McKenzie returned to television on the 26 January 2018 episode of Defiant Wrestling, during which she won two consecutive Number One Contender matches. She defeated Bea Priestley and Xia Brookside. On 18 February at Chain Reaction, McKenzie defeated Kay Lee Ray to win the Defiant Women's Championship. She retained the title until June 17 at Built To Destroy, where she lost the Women's Championship to Bea Priestley. On the December 16 episode of Defiant Loaded, McKenzie competed in a Gauntlet Match for the Women's Championship.
===World Wrestling Entertainment (2018) ===
====NXT UK (2018) ====
McKenzie made her televised WWE debut on November 14 episode of NXT UK. During that episode, McKenzie competed in a tournament for the United Kingdom Women's Championship. She was eliminated during the first round by Jinny. McKenzie returned to television the following week on the November 28 episode of NXT UK, where she teamed with Xia Brookside in defeating Charlie Morgan & Killer Kelly in a tag match.
== In wrestling ==
*Finishers
**Front Flip Piledriver
*Signature moves
**Belly-To-Belly Suplex
**German Suplex
**Spear
*Tag Team & Stables
**Next Wave 5 - with Killian Jacobs (as Millie McKenzie)
*Nicknames
**"The First 21st Century Badass"
== Championships and accomplishments ==
*Defiant Wrestling
**Defiant Women's Championship (1 time)
*Ironfist Wrestling
**Ironfist Women's Championship (1 time)
*Pro Wrestling Illustrated
**PWI ranked her #94 in the 2023 PWI Top 250 Females
*Pro Wrestling Revolver
**PWR Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Pete Dunne
== External links ==
* Profile
* Profile
* Facebook
* Twitter
Category:2000 births
Category:2016 debuts
Category:English wrestlers
Category:Female wrestlers
Category:Living people
Category:Ironfist Wrestling alumni
Category:Revolution Pro Wrestling alumni
Category:ATTACK! Pro Wrestling alumni
Category:Progress Wrestling alumni
Category:Wrestle Midlands alumni
Category:Leicester Championship Wrestling alumni
Category:International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom alumni
Category:Defiant Wrestling alumni
Category:Westside Xtreme Wrestling alumni
Category:Good Wrestling alumni
Category:British Empire Wrestling alumni
Category:WWE NXT alumni
Category:Chikara Pro Wrestling alumni
Category:Fight Forever Wrestling alumni
Category:Southside Wrestling Entertainment alumni
Category:Tidal Championship Wrestling alumni
Category:Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling alumni
Category:Tokyo Joshi Pro alumni
Category:Pro-Wrestling: EVE alumni
Category:SIRIUS Sports Entertainment alumni