Freddie Mills

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Frederick Percival Mills (26 June 1919 – 25 July 1965) was an English professional boxer who held the British, European and Commonwealth light heavyweight titles in the 1940s. In 1948, he won the NBA/BBBofC versions of the World Light Heavyweight Championship, which was the first title bout in Europe to be recognized by a New York-based (USA) sanctioning body. Mills was one of Britain's biggest boxing idols of the post-war era and remained a popular media personality after his retirement from the ring. Once he had retired from boxing, Mills moved into boxing management and promotion, and pursued a career in entertainment, working in radio, television (notably as co-presenter of the early BBC TV music show, Six-Five Special between 1957 and 1958), and on the stage, as well as playing roles in a number of films between 1952 and 1965. He opened a Chinese restaurant in Soho before there was an established Chinatown in the area and also ran his own London nightclub until his mysterious death.

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