About
Dominique McLean (born March 2, 1998), known professionally as SonicFox, is an American professional esports player of several fighting games, currently signed to FlyQuest. They have topped many tournaments, including eight Evolution Championship Series (EVO) events for five different game franchises. They are the highest paid fighting game esports player in the world as of August 4, 2019, with over $719,204.94 in earnings. They are famous for wins in Mortal Kombat and Injustice, both produced by Netherrealm Studios. McLean was named Esports Player of the Year at The Game Awards 2018 and included in Forbes’s 2020 “30 Under 30” for Games.
As a furry, McLean is known to compete in the fursuit of their fursona, a blue-and-white anthropomorphic fox.
McLean’s older brother, Christian, got McLean interested in fighting video games when McLean was three years old. Over the next several years, while McLean continued to play games, they came into the furry fandom around the age of ten or eleven, and developed the “SonicFox” character. They are known to participate in tournaments in the fursuit of their fursona, a blue-and-white anthropomorphic fox.
Around 2011, McLean was playing…
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