Rico Verhoeven saw 58x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Ricardo "Rico" Verhoeven is a Dutch professional kickboxer, professional boxer and mixed martial artist. He formerly competed in the Heavyweight division of GLORY, where he was the promotion's longest-reigning Heavyweight Champion, while also defending the title a record thirteen times. A professional since 2004, he also competed in K-1, It's Showtime and SUPERKOMBAT. He challenged for the WBC heavyweight title in a boxing match at the Giza Plateau, Egypt, in 2026. Verhoeven has been continually ranked as the number one heavyweight kickboxer in the world by Combat Press since September 2014, when the rankings were first established.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 22 edits to this article on 2026-05-24, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Professional boxing record
• Verhoeven vs. Usyk
• Professional boxing career

What changed that day

The article grew by 419 characters that day. The largest single addition was 379 characters to Verhoeven vs. Usyk. See everything that changed on 2026-05-24 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.