BOXER

Evander Holyfield

1962 - Today

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Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion at cruiserweight in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evander Holyfield has received more than 12,373,788 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Evander Holyfield is the 13th most popular boxer (up from 14th in 2019), the 1,248th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,636th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Boxer.

Evander Holyfield is most famous for being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world from 1990 to 1997.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Evander Holyfield ranks 13 out of 496. Before him are Joe Louis, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Max Schmeling, Jake LaMotta, Sonny Liston, and Carlos Monzón. After him are Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Teófilo Stevenson, and Rubin Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Evander Holyfield ranks 30. Before him are Jon Bon Jovi, Steve Irwin, Clyde Drexler, Yahya Sinwar, Izzy Stradlin, and Joan Laporta. After him are Viktor Tsoi, Stephen Chow, Jeff Bennett, Thomas Kretschmann, Kelly Preston, and Ales Bialiatski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evander Holyfield ranks 1,248 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), Mario Lanza (1921), Valerie Solanas (1936), Gerald Edelman (1929), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), and Claudia Goldin (1946). After him are Jacque Fresco (1916), Marvin Minsky (1927), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Charles Sweeney (1919), Ethan Hawke (1970), and Mary Todd Lincoln (1818).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Evander Holyfield ranks 11. Before him are George Foreman (1949), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Joe Louis (1914), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Jake LaMotta (1922), and Sonny Liston (1932). After him are Jack Dempsey (1895), Larry Holmes (1949), Rubin Carter (1937), Floyd Patterson (1935), Ken Norton (1943), and James J. Braddock (1905).

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