BOXER

Marijan Beneš

1951 - 2018

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Marijan Beneš (11 June 1951 – 4 September 2018) was a Yugoslavian boxer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is considered one of the best boxers in Yugoslav history. After a brilliant amateur career, culminating in the gold medal in European Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade, he turned professional in 1977, and won the European Boxing Union title in the light welterweights in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marijan Beneš has received more than 133,968 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Marijan Beneš is the 61st most popular boxer (up from 66th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 203rd in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Boxer.

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  • 130k

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  • 57.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Marijan Beneš ranks 61 out of 496. Before him are Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Bob Fitzsimmons, Pascual Pérez, Julio César Chávez, and Félix Savón. After him are Joe Bugner, Nils Ramm, Vladimir Yengibaryan, Canelo Álvarez, Janusz Gortat, and Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Marijan Beneš ranks 262. Before him are Roscoe Tanner, Michael Freedman, Stephen Root, Kim Young-ae, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Jean-Pierre Bacri. After him are Patrick Allen, Jimi Jamison, Nick Ut, Shigemi Ishii, Bob McAdoo, and Vladimír Špidla. Among people deceased in 2018, Marijan Beneš ranks 244. Before him are Bradford Dillman, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Tomás Maldonado, Claribel Alegría, Kader Khan, and Oliver Ivanović. After him are Jean Bourgain, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Alexander Zakharchenko, Elias M. Stein, Miguel Obando y Bravo, and Sergei Mavrodi.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Marijan Beneš ranks 210 out of 661. Before him are Dušan Kovačević (1948), Jovan Ristić (1831), Branislav Ivanović (1984), Danilo Popivoda (1947), Ljubomir Davidović (1863), and Marija Šerifović (1984). After him are Zoran Lilić (1953), Mirjana Karanović (1957), Ljubiša Spajić (1926), Aleksandar Kolarov (1985), Nemanja Matić (1988), and Neda Arnerić (1953).

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Among BOXERS In Serbia

Among boxers born in Serbia, Marijan Beneš ranks 1. After him are Marco Huck (1984).

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