If you think sports superstar and top pound-for-pound fighter Floyd Mayweather (46-0, 26 KO) was the only mainstream boxer on last night’s card, think again.
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In addition to boxing’s newest star, Marcos Maidana, who dropped a spirited majority decision to Floyd in the main event, the card also featured two now mainstream stars on the undercard, Adrien Broner and Amir Khan.
And if there were any doubts about Khan and Broner’s popularity among the the masses, last night certainly thwarted them. Although it’s rare for undercard boxers to vault into Google’s top 10, the queries “Adrien Broner” and “Amir Khan” ranked Nos. 6 and 8 respectively in Google Trends for Saturday, May 3, 2014 despite the fact the afforementioned fighters faced opponents who were relatively obscure to the casual fight fan.
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc. that shows, in Google’s search engine, how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
In essence, Google Trends shows how new events affect search popularity.
For yesterday, the top 10 queries were as follows (in order):
Saturday, May 3, 2014
1. Kentucky Derby
2. Audrey Hepburn
3. Damian Lillard
4. Warriors
5. White House Correspondents Dinner
6 . Adrien Broner
7. Steam
8. Amir Khan
9. Free comic book day
10. Efrem Zimbalist
