{"id":14427,"date":"2018-02-18T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2018-02-19T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:47:11","slug":"andnew-millie-mckenzie-wins-defiant-womens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/02\/18\/andnew-millie-mckenzie-wins-defiant-womens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Millie McKenzie Wins Defiant Women&#8217;s Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At tonight&#8217;s <strong>Defiant Wrestling<\/strong> PPV <em><strong>Chain Reaction<\/strong><\/em>, rising UK star <strong>Millie McKenzie<\/strong> defeated veteran <strong>Kay Lee Ray<\/strong> to become the new Defiant Women&#8217;s Champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight I won the defiant women\u2019s championship<br \/>\nThanks for all the messages ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K7lJUo9zv6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/K7lJUo9zv6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Millie Mckenzie (@MillieMcKenzie0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MillieMcKenzie0\/status\/965378428731117568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Millie McKenzie<\/strong> has taken the UK wrestling scene by storm the past year, which is even more remarkable when you consider she&#8217;s only 17 years old. She&#8217;s become a suplex machine driven by pure desire, and tonight she became the youngest Women&#8217;s Champion in Defiant\/WCPW history, joining the names of <strong>Nixon Newell, Bea Priestley<\/strong> and <strong>Kay Lee Ray<\/strong> on the list of champions to hold the title, first established in 2016 with WCPW.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14429\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14429\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/DWUZGN6X0AAzblF-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Oli Sandler \/ Ringside Perspective<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McKenzie began training at the age of 14 with PWA, but has since moved to <strong>Fight Club: PRO<\/strong> where she trains with <strong>Travis Banks<\/strong> and <strong>Martin Zaki<\/strong>. She made her wrestling debut in October of 2015 with <strong>Phoenix Wrestling Association (PWA)<\/strong>, her hometown promotion in Coventry, England, but has since worked her way onto the major UK promotions, like <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> and <strong>RevPro<\/strong> and was a part of <strong>CHIKARA<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>King of Trios 2017<\/strong><\/em>, teaming with <strong>Omari<\/strong> and <strong>Aussie Open<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Kyle Fletcher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At tonight&#8217;s Defiant Wrestling PPV Chain Reaction, rising UK star Millie McKenzie defeated veteran Kay Lee Ray to become the new Defiant Women&#8217;s Champion. Tonight I won the defiant women\u2019s championship Thanks for all the messages ! pic.twitter.com\/K7lJUo9zv6 \u2014 Millie Mckenzie (@MillieMcKenzie0) February 19, 2018 Millie McKenzie has taken the UK wrestling scene by storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":14430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,13,317],"tags":[1139,2222,1514,2221,44],"class_list":["post-14427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defiant","category-featured","category-international","category-women","tag-kay-lee-ray","tag-chain-reaction","tag-defiant-wrestling","tag-mille-mckenzie","tag-wcpw"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}