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Ray Mercer

1961 - Today

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Raymond Anthony Mercer (born April 4, 1961) is an American former professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist who competed from 1989 to 2009. Best known for his boxing career, Mercer won a heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur, and later held the WBO heavyweight title in 1991 as a professional, making one successful title defense against Tommy Morrison before vacating his championship. Though he fought and lost a controversial unanimous decision fight to former champion Evander Holyfield, he scored a notable unanimous decision win over two-time heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Mercer has received more than 1,364,188 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ray Mercer is the 148th most popular boxer, the 9,430th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,680th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Boxer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Ray Mercer ranks 148 out of 326. Before him are Kim Duk-koo, Antal Kocsis, Søren Petersen, Franco De Piccoli, Cosimo Pinto, and Boris Lagutin. After him are Pernell Whitaker, Francisco Cabañas, Wolfgang Behrendt, Antonio Tarver, Stanislav Stepashkin, and Jan Szczepański.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Ray Mercer ranks 378. Before him are Serena Scott Thomas, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Steven Weber, Éric Dupond-Moretti, Danny Carey, and Calvin Smith. After him are Andrea Carnevale, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Tatiana de Rosnay, Jon Tenney, Cui Jian, and Konstantin Lavronenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Mercer ranks 9,430 out of 18,182. Before him are Len Wiseman (1973), Joe Lovano (1952), Aisha Tyler (1970), Alison Krauss (1971), Daniel Everett (1951), and Betty Blythe (1893). After him are George Henry Thomas (1816), Allen Daviau (1942), Mara Wilson (1987), David Gates (1940), Dustin Poirier (1989), and Donald Trump Jr. (1977).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Ray Mercer ranks 55. Before him are Deontay Wilder (1985), James Smith (1953), Laila Ali (1977), Harry Spanjer (1873), Emanuel Steward (1944), and Bert Schneider (1897). After him are Pernell Whitaker (1964), Antonio Tarver (1968), Miguel Cotto (1980), Fidel LaBarba (1905), Micky Ward (1965), and Michael Moorer (1967).

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