# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-tua
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:52.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-tua"
name: "David Tua"
slug: "david-tua"
description: "Mafaufau Tavita Lio Mafaufau Sanerivi Talimatasi, known as David Tua, is a Samoan-New Zealand former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2013. A highly ranked heavyweight contender for most of his career, Tua is considered by some to be one of the greatest heavyweights to have never won a world title. He was ranked by BoxRec in the world's top 10 heavyweights from 1996 to 2003, reaching his highest BoxRec ranking of No.3 in 1998. He was also ranked the No.1 heavyweight contender in 2000 by the WBC and IBF, leading up to his bout with Lennox Lewis."
tagline: "New Zealand professional heavyweight boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Tua_ONZM_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1972-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.45
  momentum:             1.300452659373821
  historical:           15.69805466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/47391506449"
    handle:    "47391506449"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidtua.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Девід Туа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد توا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد توا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "دیوید توا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A2"
    title: "デビッド・トゥア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Туа, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tua"
    title: "David Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708558"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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