Comments Thread For: Wilder, Fury Among Six Boxers on ESPN World Fame 100 List

[chaosisme]

It's definitely because of the TO THIS DAY stuff.

[Phenom]

Stop infuriating AJ fangirls

[sicko]

Being HATED is a great thing to be in boxing and it helps you make A LOT of $$$

After all this DAZN stuff he will be even higher by the end of this year

[Phenom]

That sounds like a load of crap.

It's scientifically proven facts

[Bonduu]

Horse shlt!!! That Bama bum ain’t no face of boxing...Canelo and AJ are the faces of boxing!

[jmrf4435]

It's very clear that both men saw a dramatic rise in fame after their fight.

Wilder is literally shouted at wherever he goes, Fury is developing into a VERY public figure, like a Gronk.

So much for saying that neither man is enough of a draw to command 45%

lolo hshahah they became well known world wide.

And 90% of those people think Fury was robbed hahahah

fury won out

[CocoonOfHorror]

Peak search frequency is clearly too heavily weighted in this method.
But it is striking to see on Google Trends how Wilder's worldwide search frequency around the time of his fights has increased since he won the WBC belt in early 2015. His searches also rise dramatically the week after the big KOs (e.g., Szpilka, Stiverne II).
Wilder's peak post-Fury is about two-thirds Canelo and GGG search frequency after their second fight, but his post-Fury peak is over four times his previous max frequency (post-Ortiz). If he KOs Brezeale it will be interesting to see how much search frequency increases relative to after Ortiz and Fury fights.

[Boxing lives]

Horse shlt!!! That Bama bum ain’t no face of boxing...Canelo and AJ are the faces of boxing!

AJ ain't shit in America (the counrty that matters). Hell even Golovkin is a bigger draw than Juicesha here. Fury is the only heavyweight from England that has any balls and thats why he made the list. AJ is just some no account fighting easy fights after that fluke win against old over the hill Klit.

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[Jubei]

That list is totally fabricated, everybody can make a list that makes certain people look amazing, when you click on their homepage it says, its evaluated by search score, endorsements and social media followers, but when you dig a little deeper, the search they are using for the list is not measured by overall popularity, but only by search queries for a specific moment in 2018.

Just click on the ESPN Fame homepage, on About and it will actually say so:

"For our fourth annual World Fame 100, we bring you each athlete's most searched moment worldwide, as measured by Google Trends."

When Fury arose from that knockdown, during exactly that time frame, over a couple minutes Fury and Wilder were some the most searched people (Fury a score of 79, Wilder 100), but when you look at the overall popularity over the year (which is the only meaningful measurement), Wilder is far behind other boxers just as Canelo, Joshua, GGG etc.

There are several people with a 100 score in that list, so thats nothing special, it is just for a moment, a couple minutes to be ahead in search queries worldwide, meaning if nothing else at that particular moment happened, you will be ahead. Wilder also has way less social media followers and endorsements than other fighters on the list.

Here is the actual link for overall popularity in 2018. https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...%2Fm%2F0h7p34w

Just another list to manipulate fools.