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<title source="title1"> <default>Bradley Foxx</default> </title> <image source="image1">
</image> <group collapse="open"> <header>Physical Attributes</header> <label>Hometown</label> <label>Species</label> <label>Gender</label> <label>Height</label> <label>Weight</label> </group> <group collapse="open"> <header>Professional Attributes</header> <label>Position</label> <label>Debut</label> <label>Quotes</label> </group> </infobox> Bradley Foxx - who often goes by Brad - is one of UFW’s referees. He made his debut on April 28, 2023 in UFW Nightfall. Though not a traditional pro-wrestling fan, Brad took an interest in UFW after his girlfriend of many years, Valencia, made her debut in UFW Unbroken on November 14, 2022. Brad felt the passion possessed by all of UFW’s wrestlers and staff and decided to lend a paw, officially becoming a UFW Trainee on April 6th, 2023 and completing his training shortly after.
Appearance:
Brad is an arctic fox with mostly white fur broken up by a light gray along the paws, lower arms and legs. While not overly tall or powerful, Brad’s almost 6’ frame has plenty of muscle to utilize moving around and sometimes out of the ring when officiating UFW matches or engaging in friendly spars or not-so-friendly fights outside of UFW’s walls.
When not on duty, Brad tends to dress in more casual clothes, with either blue jeans or his llama-print blue and pink shorts, with a red plaid shirt with rolled sleeves or one of UFW’s shirts adorning his chest and his wire-frame rectangular glasses in front of his vibrant blue eyes. Brad will occasionally snaz it up in a suit, though usually with no tie and only for special occasions.
Early life:
If asked about his childhood, Brad would say he had good fortune being born to the parents he had. He was born on a Naval Ordnance Base in Tennessee (he feels the need to add “why there’s anything related to the Navy in Tennessee, I have no clue”) to a then-active duty Navy man and a nurse. From there, they moved around from the empty deserts out West to the beaches along the East coast until his father retired from the Navy to help raise him.
Even with the opportunities afforded by his parents to excel, Brad didn’t take to schooling early on. Brad would say he had to learn to love learning. In time, Brad would come to appreciate reading, art, music, and learning about the world around him. Brad’s boundless energy came into play during gym, where the learning process was much simpler, though he preferred track and field to football and basketball, with the exception of baseball, oddly enough. In between classes, he would explore the woods with his friends, get into many a lightsaber duel, and develop a passion for video games. As Brad grew older, his appreciation for written language and history improved, which blossomed into creative writing and a love for tabletop roleplaying games.
By the end of his Junior year, Brad gave serious consideration to joining the Marine Corps out of high school. At the behest of his parents, however, Brad went the higher education route to get a degree so he could join the Armed Forces as an officer. As would happen, Brad never got around to that joining the Armed Forces thing, instead diving head first into his studies and the challenges and opportunities college life comes with. There, Brad’s . Amateur wrestling was replaced with Muay Thai and then MMA while Brad stayed long enough to accumulate not one, but three separate degrees, ending with a Masters so he could turn around and teach at the collegiate level. Unfortunately for a lot of people, including Brad, he would not get the opportunity immediately as COVID brought the world to a halt.
In the time it took for Brad to pull things back together, he’d find work in the food service, retail, and even armed security for a time before his girlfriend, Valencia, introduced him to United Furry Wrestling. Brad would never call himself a professional wrestling fan, but he made a point of supporting Valencia when she decided to become a referee. After attending only a few shows, Brad’s opinion on professional wrestling changed slightly. Not long after, he applied for the position and quickly found himself in the ring with some of the toughest fighters on the planet, attempting (and, at times, failing) to avoid their blows and keep order in the ring. He hasn’t looked back since.
Personality:
Among the words Brad would use to describe himself, he would mention dork, flirt, nerd, helper, and “lousy conversationalist”, all rolled up into a fuzzy snowball. Once he feels comfortable with someone, however, he will open up to them far more readily. At times, this leads to embarrassment as his brain often outruns his mouth, leading to him stumbling over words or struggling to find a way to phrase what he wants to say. Those whom the fox would call friend, however, will find a very loyal, quirky and fun loving fox equally capable of chatting, tussling, and just being good company and good vibes.
Refereeing style:
None of the above necessarily describes him inside the ring, however. Brad takes pride in putting his best hindpaw forward, so he strives to call all matches as fairly as possible, his personal feelings for one wrestler over another aside. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t let his feelings for heels well known, as he detests them on a fundamental level: he’s there to enforce the rules while they seem determined to bend and break them as much as they can without being disqualified. His quest for maintaining professionalism has not always pleased audience members, such as when Chelsea pinned Hacker during a tag team match, but he refused to accept it as Chelsea wasn’t the legal wrestler at the time.
Brad’s professionalism does have its limits, though. On more than one occasion, he has stood his ground against wrestlers who wanted to continue the fight after he rang the bell, despite often being outside or squaring off with more vicious or armed wrestlers. This has sometimes cost him physical well being, particularly when Depravity hurled him out of the ring to land back first onto the barricade. He has also verbally sparred with wrestlers he doesn’t like and praised wrestlers he does outside of the ring, at times violating the impartial viewpoint that most UFW Staff strive to maintain. Despite his feelings and his duty as a referee often clashing, Brad would say becoming a referee for UFW was among his favorite happy accidents in life.
