# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/azumah-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:22.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/azumah-nelson"
name: "Azumah Nelson"
slug: "azumah-nelson"
description: "Azumah Nelson is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2008. He was a two-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title from 1984 to 1987 and the WBC super-featherweight title twice between 1988 and 1997. He also challenged once for the unified WBC and International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight titles in 1990. At regional level, he held the ABU, and Commonwealth featherweight titles between 1980 and 1982. Widely considered one of the greatest African boxers of all time, he is currently ranked as the 69th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time by BoxRec."
tagline: "Ghanaian boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Azumah_Nelson_with_KO_Magazine.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1958-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.30296533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Azumah Nelson"
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    title: "Azumah Nelson"
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    title: "Azumah Nelson"
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    title: "Azumah Nelson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump