Kamaru Usman saw 49x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Kamarudeen Usman is a Nigerian-American professional mixed martial artist, former freestyle wrestler, and graduated folkstyle wrestler. He currently competes in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Welterweight Champion. Usman is also The Ultimate Fighter 21 tournament winner. He is considered one of the greatest welterweights of all time. He holds the records for longest winning streak in the UFC welterweight division at 15 and takedown defense percentage (97.3%). As of August 1, 2026, he is #11 in the Meta UFC welterweight rankings.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-07-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026

What changed that day

The article grew by 769 characters that day. The largest single addition was 412 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-19 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.