Wikipedia readers turned to Mike Perry (fighter) at 202x the usual rate

What this article is

Michael Joseph Perry is an American professional mixed martial artist and bare-knuckle boxer currently competing in the Middleweight division of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), where he is the current "King of Violence" champion. Perry also competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 15 times. As of April 13, 2026, he is #4 in the BKFC middleweight rankings and #5 in the BKFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026

What changed that day

The article grew by 483 characters that day. The largest single addition was 467 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-17 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.