Wikipedia readers turned to Errol Spence Jr. at 101x the usual rate

What this article is

Errol Spence Jr. is an American professional boxer who competed from 2012 to 2026. He is a former unified champion in the welterweightdivision, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles between 2017 and 2023. As an amateur, in the welterweight division, he won three consecutive United States national championships and represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, where he reached the quarter-finals. In 2015, Spence was named Prospect of the Year by ESPN.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 9 edits to this article on 2026-07-26, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Professional boxing record

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,101 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,052 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-26 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.