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Sting

1959 - Today

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Steve Borden (born March 20, 1959), better known by the ring name Sting, is an American retired professional wrestler. Borden is known for his time spent as the face of two American professional wrestling promotions: World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1988 to 2001 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2006 to 2014. Although the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; renamed WWE in 2002) purchased WCW in 2001, Borden did not sign with them at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sting has received more than 884,994 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Sting is the 81st most popular wrestler (up from 98th in 2019), the 6,233rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,617th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Wrestler.

Memorability Metrics

  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stings by language

Over the past year Sting has had the most page views in the with 68,975 views, followed by Simple English (63,432), and English (58,324). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (175.16%), Simple English (171.41%), and Egyptian Arabic (97.27%)

Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Sting ranks 81 out of 1,027. Before him are Claes Johanson, Stan Hansen, Edge, The Great Gama, Chris Jericho, and Erik Malmberg. After him are Ted DiBiase, Mahmut Atalay, Ivan Yarygin, Verner Weckman, Shinobu Sekine, and Emam-Ali Habibi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Sting ranks 226. Before him are Neal Stephenson, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Thomas Quasthoff, Robert Greene, Raf, and Ricardo Gallego. After him are Stephen Roche, Momoe Yamaguchi, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Sanjay Dutt, Steven Erikson, and Erwin Olaf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sting ranks 6,233 out of 20,380. Before him are Sandy Dennis (1937), Lee Ritenour (1952), Glynn Turman (1947), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Gordon Willis (1931), and Marshall Applewhite (1931). After him are Theodore Freeman (1930), Corinne Griffith (1894), Anita Loos (1889), Gary Ross (1956), Robert Lowell (1917), and Elizabeth Roemer (1929).

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Among WRESTLERS In United States

Among wrestlers born in United States, Sting ranks 28. Before him are The Ultimate Warrior (1959), Buddy Rogers (1921), Shawn Michaels (1965), Darren Young (1983), Stan Hansen (1949), and Chris Jericho (1970). After him are Ted DiBiase (1954), Bobo Brazil (1924), Kurt Angle (1968), Bob Backlund (1949), Mark Henry (1971), and Yokozuna (1966).

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