Dudley Dudley | |
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Birth name | Jeff Bradley |
Born | 1968 San Antonio, Texas |
Residence | Brandon, Florida |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Bad Boy Bradley Bruiser Bradley Bruiser Kong Charlie Hunter Dudley Dudley Evil Snack Jeff Bradley Original Dudley Dudley The Texas Strangler |
Billed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Billed weight | 295 lb (134 kg) |
Billed from | "Dudleyville" "The hills of Charleston, Pennsylvania" (ECW) |
Trained by |
Boris Malenko Dean Malenko Hiro Matsuda |
Debut | 1993 |
Jeff Bradley is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1995 to 1996 as a member of Dudley family under the ring name Dudley Dudley.
Bradley was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Brandon, Florida. As a child, he attended wrestling shows at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory along with his family, and thus developed an interest in wrestling. As an adult, he began training under Joe Malenko and his brother Dean. Bradley was also one of the last wrestlers to receive training from Hiro Matsuda, who was visiting the Malenko's school in order to train Osamu Nishimura when Bradley began training. His first match took place in Tampa, Florida and saw Bradley wrestle Gary Nice.
Following a 1993 tour of Australia as part of Dean Malenko's Wrestle Riot group, Bradley, upon his return to America, was brought into the World Wrestling Federation by Jimmy Del Ray. Bradley was given the ring name "Charlie Hunter", and worked for the WWF for two years, in the course of which he wrestled both The British Bulldog and Shawn Michaels and appeared on Monday Night Raw.
Renamed "Dudley Dudley", Bradley arrived in ECW on July 1, 1995. He was billed as being part of the Dudley family along with his storyline half-brothers Snot Dudley and Big Dick Dudley. Dudley Dudley was known for his deep voice and strange laugh during interviews, and had the distinction of being "the only pure Dudley" - while all the Dudleys allegedly had (the apocryphal) Big Daddy Dudley as a common father, Dudley Dudley was the only Dudley who had (the equally fictitious) Momma Dudley as a mother. As a result, Dudley Dudley was the unquestioned leader of the stable.