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World Boxing News gets record-breaking hits prior to 10th birthday

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World Boxing News turns ten years old on August 1st, 2020. The long-running boxing website launched on that date back in 2010.

The inception of WBN goes back a little further than that to around the back end of 2009.

WBN quickly grew from a blog into a full-scale website by offering fighters a free Facebook page service.

Writing articles of 500 words or less to give fans quick access to the latest news, WBN initially found itself shunned by the mainstream boxing media.

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Little by little, and as more and more sites adopted the same approach, WBN quickly gained traction. By the end of 2010, and in just four months, WBN was the most visited boxing website in the UK.

Year after year saw growth on the site, with more social media followers jumping on board. WBN now has over 113,000 followers on Twitter and almost 100,000 on Facebook.

As always, WBN is about getting important news to the fans by the best means possible.

By 2015, WBN had been the top-visited UK website for five years running and then branched out to the USA, quickly gaining fans there.

In 2018, more views were coming to the site from the US than from the UK. It was time to relocate to both sides of the Atlantic.

Now based in Las Vegas and New York and regularly attending events there, WBN continues to thrive.

Record breaking month

WBN now gets more hits than ever. This month saw a record-breaking 2.5m unique pageviews.

In total, 2.75m views were gathered this month, the most ever by WBN and on the eve of our 10th birthday celebrations.

As usual, WBN designed a new logo marking the occasion.

With great pleasure and pride, WBN is now the second most visited boxing news website in the United States.

Ten years running we are the most-visited in the UK.

Taking Google, Bing, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube views, Instagram, and more, WBN has hit almost hundreds of millions of views of content over a decade.

Tenth birthday

A total of almost 66 million on Google alone. Here’s to the next ten years!

A big thank you goes out to everyone who has supported World Boxing News since August 1st, 2010.

WBN Editor Phil Jay has over ten years of boxing news experience. Follow WBN on Facebook @officialworldboxingnews, Instagram, and Twitter @worldboxingnews.