# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-frye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:15.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-frye"
name: "Don Frye"
slug: "don-frye"
description: "Donald Frye is an American former mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, and actor. In MMA, he was one of the sport's earliest well-rounded fighters and won the UFC 8 and Ultimate Ultimate 1996 tournaments and finished as runner-up at UFC 10 in his first year of competition. He retired from MMA in 1997 to pursue a career in professional wrestling with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) After spending four years as one of Japan's top gaijin wrestlers, he returned to MMA with the Pride Fighting Championships in September 2001, much more muscular and sporting an American patriot persona in response to the September 11 attacks. He fought bouts with Ken Shamrock and Yoshihiro Takayama during his two years in Pride. He departed the promotion to compete in K-1 and Hero's in 2004 but returned for the final Pride event in 2007. He was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2016."
tagline: "American mixed martial artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7IgjXmXBB1q0a9PGsanGts2DDnH.jpg"
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: "1965-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.86
  momentum:             15
  historical:           17.73889733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DonFryeFighter"
    handle:    "DonFryeFighter"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/donfrye.the.fighter"
    handle:    "donfrye.the.fighter"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1675025/"
    handle:    "nm1675025"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thepredatordonfrye.com/"
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    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون فراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون فراى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "دان فرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%86%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "دۆن فرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye_(Wrestler)"
    title: "Don Frye (Wrestler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دان فرای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דון פריי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ドン・フライ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%88_%ED%94%84%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "돈 프라이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Фрай, Дон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڈان فرائی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82042"
    title: "Don Frye"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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