# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yves-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:12:16.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yves-edwards"
name: "Yves Edwards"
slug: "yves-edwards"
description: "Yves Edwards is a Bahamian retired mixed martial artist, who is best known for competing in the UFC's Lightweight division, fighting 21 times in the promotion. A professional competitor since 1997, he also competed for PRIDE, the WEC, Strikeforce, Bellator, EliteXC, King of the Cage, BodogFIGHT, the MFC, and HDNet Fights. For a period of time (2004), Edwards was ranked as the #1 Lightweight in the world."
tagline: "Bahamian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Hellie%2C_Dana_White_and_Yves_Edwards.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1976-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             4.790419161676646
  historical:           6.611669333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1851331/"
    handle:    "nm1851331"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.yvesedwards.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2"
    title: "Эдвардс, Ив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "إيف إدواردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Edwards"
    title: "Yves Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Edwards"
    title: "Yves Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "イーブス・エドワーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Edwards"
    title: "Yves Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2719094"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85253"
    title: "Yves Edwards"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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