Jane Miller Percy, otherwise known as The Duchess of Northumberland, wants another chance to try her hand at MMA promotion – in the castle where two “Harry Potter” movies were filmed. Percy, a martial arts enthusiast as well as an aristocrat, made news three years ago when she promoted fights at Alnwick Castle , which was also used as a backdrop for a couple of Robin Hood films, “Black Adder,” and recently, “Downton Abbey.” It’s unclear what became of that first event, which was scoffed at by U.K. media outlets as another outlandish stunt in Percy’s makeover of the Castle and The Alnwick Garden, where she built a treehouse, a lighted fountain and a garden with cannabis and coca plants. But she’s back at it, telling the U.K.’s Mirror she wants to put on a broadcast night of fights on Channel 5, which in February broadcast UFC Fight Night 37. “We want to stage one of the biggest cage fights in the U.K.,” Percy said on Tuesday.
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