AR Fox
- January 6, 2024
- Amateur Wrestler
Quick Facts
Full Name | AR Fox |
Occupation | Amateur Wrestler |
Date Of Birth | Sep 5, 1987(1987-09-05) |
Age | 37 |
Country | United States |
Birth City | Ansonia |
Horoscope | Virgo |
AR Fox Biography
Name | AR Fox |
Birthday | Sep 5 |
Birth Year | 1987 |
Home Town | Ansonia |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Virgo |
AR Fox is one of the most popular and richest Amateur Wrestler who was born on September 5, 1987 in Ansonia, United States. Thomas James “TJ” Ballester (born on September 5 1987) more popularly known as his name in the ring, AR Fox, is an American professional wrestler who is known for his involvement in promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Dragon Gate USA, and Evolve. Fox has also been a part of Dragon Gate in Japan, Full Impact Pro (FIP) which he was the winner of his first prize in the Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Fox is currently the head coach of the WWA4 wrestling academy located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ballester was referred to in his role as AR Fox, made his debut in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on February 13, 2010 falling to Aaron Arbo in an “Opportunity Knocks” three-way battle which also included Unbreakable Andy. After partnering together with Chip Day in a tag team loss to Zero Gravity (Brett Gakiya and CJ Esparza) on March 27, Fox picked up his first win with CZW the following day, on April 10, as he beat Aaron Arbo and Unbreakable Andy in a third-way match. Fox later became a part of an ongoing storyline in which it was reported that CZW officials didn’t believe that he was a good enough wrestler to become a professional wrestler for the organization. On September 10th, Fox defeated Alex Colon, Facade, Ricochet, Ruckus and tHURTeen in order to win the Chris Cash aerial Assault ladder match, and became the top contender for be a contender for the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship. But, he went through a loss in his title match to Adam Cole on October 9. After beating Alex Colon on November 13, Fox was granted another opportunity to challenge for the title on the 11th of December but was defeated again by Cole due to interference from his new manager Mia Yim. On March 12 2012, Fox was able to defeat Alex Colon and Ryan McBride in a three- way contest to be eligible for the Best of the Best X tournament. Fox was a participant on April 9 and was eliminated on the day from the tournament by Sami Callihan in a first round match that also featured Jake Crist. Despite being eliminated early, Fox earned praise from Callihan and he named Fox”the “people’s choice”, giving him the People’s Choice Award he had picked up by himself. This ended the storyline that was centered around CZW officials were skeptical of Fox’s ability.
On June 26, 2012, Ballester was arrested in Cobb, Georgia for possession of marijuana. Ballester was married in June 2015.
On June 5, Fox defeated Pinkie Sanchez at Dragon Gate USA’s second anniversary event, after which he was beaten down by Sanchez and his D.U.F. (Dirty Ugly Fucks) stablemates Arik Cannon and Sami Callihan, starting his first storyline rivalry in the promotion. In July, Fox made his first trip to Japan for a tour with Dragon Gate USA’s parent promotion, Dragon Gate. He made his debut on July 23, when he teamed with Junction Three members Gamma and Masato Yoshino in a six-man tag team match, where they were defeated by the Blood Warriors trio of Genki Horiguchi, Naruki Doi and Yasushi Kanda. During the rest of the tour, which lasted until August 8, Fox continued working mainly against the Blood Warriors stable. Back in Dragon Gate USA on September 10, Fox teamed with the debuting veteran wrestler Sabu to defeat Cannon and Sanchez in a No Disqualification match. The following day, D.U.F. came back, in the form of Callihan and Cannon, to defeat Fox and Yamato in a tag team match. On November 13, Fox, Jon Davis and Sabu were defeated in a six-man “Extreme Warfare” main event by Callihan, Cannon and Sanchez, with Callihan pinning Fox for the win. Fox started off his 2012 by losing to Callihan in an Anything Goes Tables match on January 27. On May 11, Fox returned to Evolve, which was now unified with Dragon Gate USA, defeating Callihan in a main event grudge match. The following day at Evolve 13, Fox defeated Jigsaw, Ricochet and Samuray del Sol in the opening match to earn a shot at the Open the Freedom Gate Championship later in the main event. Fox then went on to fail in his title challenge against the defending champion, Johnny Gargano.
On the 20th of November, the 20th of November, Fox began his first match in on the Evolve promotion, beating Rich Swann, Scott Reed and Tony Nese in a four- way match. On January 29, 2011, Fox made his debut as a player for Evolve’s subsidiary, Dragon Gate USA, losing to Sami Callihan in a six-way match. The next date, Fox defeated Cheech for his first win at Dragon Gate USA. On the 20th of May, Fox defeated Rich Swann, Jon Davis and Sami Callihan in a single- night competition to win the inaugural Evolve Style Battle tournament. After a string of multi-man contests, Fox wrestled his, at the time most high-profile Dragon Gate USA match on June 4, in which the winner was Akira Tozawa.
AR Fox Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Amateur Wrestler |
House | Living in own house. |
AR Fox is one of the richest Amateur Wrestler from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, AR Fox 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 2007 Ballester transformed his home-based wrestling passion into a career in professional wrestling. He began his career after being coached by Curtis “Mr.” Hughes at his World Wrestling Alliance 4 (WWA4) organization’s school of wrestling located in Atlanta, Georgia. Then, he underwent additional training in the WWE’s developmental region Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). At first, he was working under the name of the ring “Ampliflyer”, Ballester spent the following two years working on minor events in the American independent circuit, including WWA4 as well as Prime Time Pro Wrestling (PTPW). Ballester later adopted the ring’s name “AR Fox”, feeling that due to his tiny size, he had in order to “outfox” his opponents to gain an edge.
On the 3rd of December on the 3rd of December, 2010 Fox began his first match with Full Impact Pro (FIP) in which he failed to challenge Jon Moxley for the FIP World Heavyweight Championship. Then, Fox not able to challenge Craig Classic for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship on March 19 2011. On the 28th of October, Fox got his first victory in FIP after he beat Jake Manning in the first round of the 2011 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup. The next date, Fox defeated Flip Kendrick, Bobby Fish and finally Johnny Gargano to win the whole event. On February 1st 2013, FIP hosted its first event in the last 15 months, which included AR Fox being defeated by Jon Davis in the main event to win an unclaimed FIP World Heavyweight Championship. On March 22nd, Fox made his debut for the Southern California’s Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) at PWG’s All Star Weekend 9, joining forces with Samuray del Sol in a tag-team match, which they defeat by Inner City Machine Guns (Rich Swann and Ricochet). The next date, Fox teamed with the Inner City Machine Guns in the tag team battle of six men which they lost in the end by Brian Cage, Kevin Steen and Michael Elgin. On March 29 Fox was the first to make his appearance with CLL, the Mexican AAA promotion partnering alongside Dr. Cerebro and Eterno in a tag team six-man match. They fell to Crazy Boy, Joe Lider and Willie Mack. On June 8 Fox began his first match in Chilean promotions Chile Lucha Libre (CLL) by defeating Beto Velez Bunny along with Sito King at a four-way main match to be the first CLL International All Star Champion. On August 30th, Fox returned to PWG to participate at 2013. Battle of Los Angeles, but was ejected from the competition in the first round with Roderick Strong. The 3rd of October through 6 Fox took part in the Westside Extreme Wrestling’s (wXw) 2013 World Triangle League, which was also his first appearance with that German promotion. Fox completed his match with one loss and a win and was not able to progress from his block. On the 20th of September in 2014 Fox was introduced to Chikara as he entered the Rey de Voladores tournament and losing to The Great Sanada in an all-four-way contest that also featured Amasis as well as Orlando Christopher. On June 20th, 2015, Fox began his first match with Ring of Honor (ROH) working in a dark contest at the Ring of Honor Wrestling taping. In July, Fox was introduced to Global Force Wrestling (GFW) by defeating Aaron Draven and Chuck Taylor in a tri-way match.
On April 10, 2011, Fox defeated Alex Colon, Jonathan Gresham, Ryan McBride, Ryan Slater and Ty Hagen in a six-way match to earn another shot at the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship. On May 14, Fox faced Adam Cole for the third match between the two for the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship. After debuting his new finishing maneuver, Lo Mein Pain, Fox had the match won, when CZW owner DJ Hyde entered the ring and hit him with a lariat, leading to Cole retaining his title. At the following event on June 11, Fox won his first title in CZW, when he defeated Drew Gulak for the CZW Wired TV Championship. However, he would lose the title to Jake Crist in his first title defense on July 9. On October 7, Fox received his first shot at the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated by the defending champion, Devon Moore. From November 5 to 12, Fox took part in a single-elimination tournament to determine the number one contender to the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship, in the end defeating Ryan McBride to win the tournament. On December 3 at Cage of Death 13, Fox unsuccessfully challenged new World Junior Heavyweight Champion Sami Callihan for his title.
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Facts & Trivia
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