# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-young-q1639938
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:10:37.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-young-q1639938"
name: "Jimmy Young"
slug: "jimmy-young-q1639938"
description: "Jimmy Young was an American heavyweight professional boxer. Young was known for his awkward, defensive style and counterpunching. He was one of the top contenders of the 1970s, losing a controversial unanimous decision against Muhammad Ali in 1976 and earning a victory over George Foreman in 1977. Young fought many other significant fighters of his era, including twice outpointing Ron Lyle and losing only by a split decision to then-number one contender Ken Norton in a title eliminator in late 1977. Fellow boxer Bobby Watts was his cousin."
tagline: "American boxer (1948–2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1948-11-16"
deathDate: "2005-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.88
  momentum:             0.2065131056393963
  historical:           11.61089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Янг, Джимми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمي يونغ (ملاكم)"
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    title: "Джими Йънг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Young (Boxer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Young (boxer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young"
    title: "Jimmy Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "جیمی یانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young"
    title: "Jimmy Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young_(boxe_anglaise)"
    title: "Jimmy Young (boxe anglaise)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young"
    title: "Jimmy Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young"
    title: "Jimmy Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Young"
    title: "Jimmy Young"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1639938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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