# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-the-bruiser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:09:53.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-the-bruiser"
name: "Dick the Bruiser"
slug: "dick-the-bruiser"
description: "William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with 20 tag team championships in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski."
tagline: "American football player professional wrestler (1929–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_the_Bruiser_-_Stranglehold_Wrestling_Program_-_Detroit_Olympia_Stadium_-_Aug_18%2C_1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-06-27"
deathDate: "1991-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.314845333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1130693/"
    handle:    "nm1130693"
sources:
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    title: "Dick the Bruiser"
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  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_the_Bruiser"
    title: "Dick the Bruiser"
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    title: "ديك ذا برويسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AF%DB%95_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "دیک دە بروزەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_the_Bruiser"
    title: "Dick the Bruiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Afflis"
    title: "William Afflis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_the_Bruiser"
    title: "Dick the Bruiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_the_Bruiser"
    title: "Dick the Bruiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウィリアム・アフィルス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8004185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928358"
    title: "Dick Afflis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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