2026-05-10 · This surge ran for 10 days and has since subsided.
Wikipedia readers turned to Khamzat Chimaev at 66x the usual rate
Khamzat Chimaev drew 251,269 views on 2026-05-10, 66x more than the usual 3,836 a day over the previous 60 days.
Khamzat Chimaev
Russian-Emirati mixed martial artist (born 1994)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 251,269 |
| 2026-05-09 | 59,954 |
| 2026-05-08 | 56,049 |
| 2026-05-07 | 21,855 |
| 2026-05-06 | 15,599 |
| 2026-05-05 | 12,011 |
| 2026-05-04 | 9,429 |
| 2026-05-03 | 7,261 |
| 2026-05-02 | 7,427 |
| 2026-05-01 | 5,436 |
| 2026-04-30 | 4,206 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,156 |
| 2026-04-28 | 3,446 |
| 2026-04-27 | 3,427 |
| 2026-04-26 | 3,803 |
| 2026-04-25 | 3,663 |
| 2026-04-24 | 3,739 |
| 2026-04-23 | 3,369 |
| 2026-04-22 | 3,334 |
| 2026-04-21 | 3,618 |
| 2026-04-20 | 4,240 |
| 2026-04-19 | 6,601 |
| 2026-04-18 | 3,805 |
| 2026-04-17 | 3,707 |
| 2026-04-16 | 3,921 |
| 2026-04-15 | 3,586 |
| 2026-04-14 | 3,735 |
| 2026-04-13 | 3,849 |
| 2026-04-12 | 7,018 |
| 2026-04-11 | 3,793 |
| 2026-04-10 | 3,842 |
| 2026-04-09 | 4,454 |
| 2026-04-08 | 3,704 |
| 2026-04-07 | 3,522 |
| 2026-04-06 | 3,628 |
| 2026-04-05 | 4,109 |
| 2026-04-04 | 3,642 |
| 2026-04-03 | 3,456 |
| 2026-04-02 | 3,575 |
| 2026-04-01 | 3,786 |
| 2026-03-31 | 3,947 |
| 2026-03-30 | 4,521 |
| 2026-03-29 | 8,616 |
| 2026-03-28 | 4,467 |
| 2026-03-27 | 3,901 |
What this article is
Khamzat Khizarovich Chimaev is a Russian-Emirati professional mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler. He currently competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the former UFC Middleweight Champion. As of 12 May 2026, he is #1 in the Meta UFC middleweight rankings, and as of 23 June 2026, he is #12 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 17 edits to this article on 2026-05-10, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Combat sports career
- UFC Middleweight Champion
- Championships and accomplishments
- Mixed martial arts record
What changed that day
The article grew by 465 characters that day. The largest single addition was 291 characters to Combat sports career. See everything that changed on 2026-05-10 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.