Ronda Rousey saw 111x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Ronda Jean Rousey is an American actress, semi-retired professional wrestler, former judoka, and former mixed martial artist. She is best known for her tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and WWE.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 27 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Return against Gina Carano
• Mixed martial arts record
• Training; Raw Women's Champion (2017–2019)

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,207 characters that day. The largest single addition was 804 characters to Training; Raw Women's Champion (2017–2019). 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.

Rose at the same time

1 other article that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Gina Carano American actress and mixed martial artist (born 1982)

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.