# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-vargas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:51:13.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-vargas"
name: "Fernando Vargas"
slug: "fernando-vargas"
description: "Fernando Javier Vargas is a Mexican American former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2007. He was a two-time light middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 1998 to 2000, and the WBA title from 2001 to 2002. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the light welterweight division at the 1995 Pan American Games, and reached the second round of the welterweight bracket at the 1996 Olympics."
tagline: "American boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vargas2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.15124666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "_FernandoVargas"
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    handle:    "_fernandovargas"
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    handle:    "nm1470934"
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    title: "เฟอร์นันโด วาร์กัส"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump