# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-nielsen-q912867
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:01:16.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-nielsen-q912867"
name: "Brian Nielsen"
slug: "brian-nielsen-q912867"
description: "Brian Nielsen is a Danish former professional boxer and Olympic bronze medalist. He held the IBO heavyweight title from 1996 to 1999 successfully defending it five times, including against Larry Holmes and Phil Jackson, the second highest number of defenses behind Wladimir Klitschko's record of 18. At one point of time, he equaled Rocky Marciano's record of 49 successive wins with no losses. While he never held a world title from any of the main four sanctioning bodies, he did defeat several former world champions who had, including James Smith, Jeff Lampkin, Tony Tubbs, Carlos De León, Tim Witherspoon, Orlin Norris, and Uriah Grant."
tagline: "Danish boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danish_boxer_Brian_Nielsen.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1965-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.38
  momentum:             1.823144104803493
  historical:           13.88928533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0630749/"
    handle:    "nm0630749"
sources:
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    title: "Браян Нільсен"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "براين نيلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(bokser)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (bokser)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(Boxer)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (Boxer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(boxer)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (boxer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen"
    title: "Brian Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen"
    title: "Brian Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen"
    title: "Brian Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(pugile)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (pugile)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(bokser)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (bokser)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nielsen_(boxeador)"
    title: "Brian Nielsen (boxeador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q912867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1439311"
    title: "Brian Nielsen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump