Okay, stick with me here on this one, because it is a bit of a longshot. Anderson Silva fights are important milestones in the MMA world, without a doubt, but in Brazil the idea of an Anderson Silva fight is a big deal. How big of a deal? Well, we turn to one of the most popular websites in the world, PornHub.com to find out. No, you did not read that wrong, PornHub.com, a veritable YouTube for porn.
So while PornHub is one of the most popular sites on the web they are able to gauge the impact of global events by checking their traffic stats, which they’ve then gone and implied that these people aren’t masturbating. We all know that there are other methods of finding online pornography, but we’ll accept their unscientific study for what it is and go along with it. So what they’ve found is that UFC 162, featuring Anderson Silva, had a significant impact on traffic coming from Brazil for the site, in fact, an 11% decrease.
So Anderson Silva is able to make Brazilian people stop masturbating, apparently. Damn. [link – surprisingly safe for work]