David Benavidez is drawing 59x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Anthony David Benavidez is a Mexican-American professional boxer who has held world championships in three weight classes. He has held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) cruiserweight titles since May 2026, the WBA light heavyweight title since February 2025 and the World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight title since April 2025. Previously, he held the WBC super middleweight title twice between 2017 and 2020.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 19 edits to this article on 2026-05-03, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Professional boxing record
• Major world titles

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,309 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,055 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-03 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.