# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:05:45.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-edwards"
name: "Leon Edwards"
slug: "leon-edwards"
description: "Leon Edwards is an English professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Welterweight Champion. A professional since 2011, Edwards formerly competed for BAMMA, where he was the BAMMA welterweight champion. As of 9 June 2026, he is #8 in the Meta UFC welterweight rankings."
tagline: "English mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Edwards_2021.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1991-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.91167066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Leon_EdwardsMMA"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/leonedwardsmma/"
    handle:    "leonedwardsmma"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "LeonEdwardsMMA"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm7774844"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Edwards"
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    title: "Leon Edwards"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Edwards"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Edwards"
    title: "Leon Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump