# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keiji-yamaguchi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:29:18.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keiji-yamaguchi"
name: "Keiji Yamaguchi"
slug: "keiji-yamaguchi"
description: "Keiji Yamaguchi is a former professional boxer from Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Yamaguchi held the WBA light flyweight championship of the world, defeating Panamanian champion Carlos Murillo in 1996 via a 12th-round split decision. He became Japan's 37th world champion."
tagline: "Japanese boxer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1974-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             4.326923076923076
  historical:           5.685962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Yamaguchi"
    title: "Keiji Yamaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Yamaguchi"
    title: "Keiji Yamaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Yamaguchi"
    title: "Keiji Yamaguchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4_%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4"
    title: "เคจิ ยามางูจิ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E5%9C%AD%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "山口圭司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Ямагути, Кэйдзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2491607"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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