Popularity ranking · Canada

The 100 most popular Martial Arts in Canada

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest martial arts in Canada, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 592 martial arts tracked in Canada, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Ultimate Fighting Championship, Professional wrestling and Anthony Joshua lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 9.9M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 219k, and the largest, Ultimate Fighting Championship, reaches around 6.3M people in Canada. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with each martial art, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Canada and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Canada. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Canada, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Canada. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Ricky Hatton 191k 37.0 11.8% Martial art
27 Paige VanZant 141k 33.3 0.0% Martial art
28 Nick Diaz 139k 34.3 3.9% Martial art
29 Oleksandr Ussyk 133k 33.0 25.6% Martial art
30 Petr Yan 133k 33.0 35.0% Martial art
31 GLORY Kickboxing 129k 34.9 0.0% Martial art
32 Daniel Cormier 121k 36.3 14.4% Martial art
33 Anderson Silva 116k 39.6 6.6% Martial art
34 Tony Ferguson 110k 34.9 8.7% Martial art
35 Georges St-Pierre 98k 36.4 15.3% Martial art
36 Oscar De La Hoya 85k 42.5 19.5% Martial art
37 Cain Velasquez 83k 28.6 48.0% Martial art
38 Amanda Nunes 82k 36.2 18.3% Martial art
39 B.J. Penn 82k 35.8 11.4% Martial art
40 Golden Gloves 81k 40.9 30.4% Martial art
41 Professional wrestling holds 81k 38.1 42.5% Martial art
42 Lennox Lewis 80k 43.4 15.6% Martial art
43 Rose Namajunas 76k 30.2 39.5% Martial art
44 Sherdog 75k 34.1 1.7% Martial art
45 Chael Sonnen 74k 37.8 8.2% Martial art
46 Chuck Liddell 73k 36.4 19.8% Martial art
47 Deontay Wilder 68k 28.1 0.0% Martial art
48 Dorian Yates 68k 31.0 15.3% Martial art
49 Bas Rutten 65k 30.7 74.0% Martial art
50 Holly Holm 64k 37.0 20.6% Martial art

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular martial arts compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Canada and ranks each martial art by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest martial art in Canada?

Ultimate Fighting Championship currently leads with an estimated audience of 6.3M people in Canada.

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