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Che Mills is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

mixed martial artist. He is a former Cage Rage

Cage Rage

Cage Rage Championships, also known as Cage Rage, was a United Kingdom-based, mixed martial arts promotion that premiered on 7 September 2002 in London. Cage Rage went bankrupt and is now no longer trading...

British welterweight champ, and holds 2 notable KO wins over DREAM

DREAM (mixed martial arts)

Dream is a mixed martial arts organization promoted by former PRIDE FC executives and K-1 promoter Fighting and Entertainment Group. DREAM replaced FEG's previous-run mixed martial arts fight series, Hero's. The series retains many of the stylistic flourishes and personnel from Pride FC...

Welterweight Champion Marius Zaromskis

Marius Žaromskis

Marius Žaromskis is a Lithuanian welterweight mixed martial artist. After fighting the majority of his career for British promotion Cage Rage, he signed with DREAM in 2009 and then, later that year, with Strikeforce. With DREAM, Žaromskis won their 2009 Welterweight Grand Prix and became their...

Early career

Mills made his professional MMA debut in November 2003. After going 1-2 in his first three bouts, Mills amassed an impressive undefeated streak of 8-0 (1 NC) over the next three years. He was considered a top prospect in the UK and was invited to appear on The Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter

The Ultimate Fighter is an American reality television series and mixed martial arts competition produced by Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship , and soon to be shown on FX. The show features unknown, professional MMA fighters living together in Las Vegas, Nevada, and follows them as...

The Ultimate Fighter

Mills appeared on the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom is the ninth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. It began production in January 2009, and began airing on Spike on April 1, 2009. The season featured Lightweight fighters ...

. However, he lost an elimination match via heel hook to subsequent winner of the competition, James Wilks

James Wilks

James Brett Wilks is an English professional mixed martial artist. He was the winner of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom. Wilks currently fights for Ultimate Fighting Championship in the welterweight division.-Biography:Wilks was born and raised in Leicestershire,...

, and therefore was eliminated from the show.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Mills eventually made it to the UFC two years later. Following some controversy around his contract with British fight promotion BAMMA

BAMMA

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It is considered by many as the biggest MMA promotion in the country. It premièred on June 27, 2009 and was shown on the television channel Bravo...

, Mills signed a contract with Zuffa to fight against Chris Cope

Chris Cope

Chris Cope is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Cope has made a name for himself fighting on the regional circuit in California. He was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos...

at UFC 138

UFC 138

UFC 138: Leben vs. Muñoz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 5, 2011 at LG Arena in Birmingham, England. The event aired on the same day, via tape delay, on Spike TV in the U.S. and live on Sportsnet in Canada...

on Nov. 5 in Birmingham, England, scrapping a proposed fight against Joey Villasenor

Joey Villasenor

Joey Villaseñor is a Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter. He is a PRIDE Fighting Championships veteran, as well as the middleweight champion in King of the Cage. Joey has also fought in Showtime's EliteXC promotion and took part in PRIDE's welterweight grand prix. He currently trains...

at BAMMA 7

BAMMA 7

BAMMA 7: Trigg vs. Wallhead was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on 10 September 2011 at the NIA Arena in Birmingham, England.-Background:...

. He won his debut in impressive fashion, getting the TKO just 40 seconds into the first round. With his impressive performance, he was awarded Knockout of the Night honors.

Mixed martial arts record

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|Win
|align=center| 14-4 (1)
|Chris Cope

Chris Cope

|TKO (knees and punches)
|UFC 138

UFC 138

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

BAMMA 6

BAMMA 6: Watson vs. Rua was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on 21 May 2011 at the Wembley Arena in London, England.-Background:BAMMA 6 was announced during the television presentation of BAMMA 5....

|May 10, 2011
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 3:58
|London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England, United Kingdom
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|Win
|align=center| 12-4 (1)
|Magomed Shikhshabekov

Magomed Shikhshabekov

Magomed Shikshabekov is a Russian mixed martial artist currently fighting in the welterweight division.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Jake Hecht

Jake Hecht is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Hecht fought mostly in regional promotions across the midwestern and southeastern United States before signing with the UFC in...

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...

, England, United Kingdom
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|Win
|align=center| 10-4 (1)
|Manuel Garcia
|KO (knee)
|Cagemania: Carnage on the Costa
|May 29, 2010
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 0:09
|Benalmadena, Spain
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|Loss
|align=center| 9-4 (1)
|Yuya Shirai

Yuya Shirai

Yuya Shirai is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He has fought for Deep, BAMMA, M-1 Global, Pancrase, DREAM and is currently the undisputed DEEP Welterweight Champion.-Mixed martial arts career:...

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

Jim Wallhead

Jim Wallhead is an English professional mixed martial artist, based in Leicestershire, England, who competes in the welterweight division. Wallhead's background is in Judo, where he holds a Black Belt having trained under Olympic silver medallist Neil Adams...

Newport

Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...

BAMMA 1

BAMMA 1: WATSON vs. MAGUIRE was a mixed martial arts event held by the British Association of Mixed Martial Arts on June 27, 2009 at the Room by the River in London, England. The event was televised on Bravo in the United Kingdom....

|June 27, 2009
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 5:00
|London, England, United Kingdom
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|Win
|align=center| 8-2 (1)
|Aidan Marron
|Submission (punches)
|KUMMA 1: Mills vs. Marron
|May 29, 2009
|align=center| 1
|align=center| N/A
|Wells, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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|-
|Win
|align=center| 7-2 (1)
|Marius Žaromskis

Marius Žaromskis

|TKO (doctor stoppage)
|Cage Rage 26

Cage Rage 26

Cage Rage 26: Extreme was a mixed martial arts event held by the Cage Rage Championships on May 10, 2008 at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England...

|May 10, 2008
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 5:00
|London

London

Cage Rage 23

Cage Rage 23: Unbelievable was a mixed martial arts event held by the Cage Rage Championships on September 22, 2007 at the Wembley Arena in London, England. It was televised on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom....

London

East London

East London is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa, situated at 32.97°S and 27.87°E in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province. The city lies on the Indian Ocean coast, largely between the Buffalo River and the Nahoon River, and is the country's only river...

, United Kingdom
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|Win
|align=center| 4-2 (1)
|Oriol Gaset
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|CFS: D-Day
|May 12, 2007
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 1:22
|England, United Kingdom
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|-
|NC
|align=center| 3-2 (1)
|Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor (fighter)

Paul Simon Taylor is an English mixed martial artist from Walsall. He stands 6'0" and weighs . He has fought regularly for Ultimate Fighting Championship. He holds notable wins over Jess Liaudin and Gabe Ruediger....

London

, England, United Kingdom
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|-
|Win
|align=center| 3-2
|Marius Žaromskis

Marius Žaromskis

Streatham

Streatham is a district in Surrey, England, located in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...

Birmingham

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, England, United Kingdom
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External links

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