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Top 100 Martial arts in France

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest martial arts in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 600 martial arts tracked in France, 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 6.4M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 140k, and the largest, Ultimate Fighting Championship, reaches around 3.4M people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each martial art, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

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

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in France. 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 France, 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 France. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Quinton Jackson 98k 43.1 31.8% Martial art
27 Ricky Hatton 81k 38.4 66.0% Martial art
28 Professional wrestling throws 80k 38.7 32.1% Martial art
29 Oleksandr Ussyk 79k 31.3 18.1% Martial art
30 GLORY Kickboxing 79k 31.7 10.7% Martial art
31 Daniel Cormier 76k 38.6 18.0% Martial art
32 Ben Askren 72k 40.6 23.4% Martial art
33 Manny Pacquiao 70k 33.8 21.4% Martial art
34 Devon Larratt 68k 33.2 26.1% Martial art
35 Demetrious Johnson (fighter) 68k 41.4 13.8% Martial art
36 Nate Diaz 64k 37.0 36.9% Martial art
37 Joe Frazier 63k 45.4 36.1% Martial art
38 Tony Ferguson 59k 38.3 16.5% Martial art
39 Buakaw Banchamek 58k 31.5 0.0% Martial art
40 Fedor Emelianenko 56k 37.7 49.5% Martial art
41 Anderson Silva 56k 40.1 26.6% Martial art
42 Deontay Wilder 56k 32.6 17.1% Martial art
43 Petr Yan 55k 34.8 23.6% Martial art
44 Rocky Marciano 55k 40.6 28.4% Martial art
45 Professional wrestling holds 54k 37.6 39.4% Martial art
46 Kimbo Slice 51k 28.2 4.6% Martial art
47 Badr Hari 48k 28.0 18.6% Martial art
48 Losene Keita 48k 37.1 23.6% Martial art
49 World Karate Federation 47k 34.7 33.8% Martial art
50 Kenjutsu 46k 43.4 29.1% Martial art

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across France 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 France?

Ultimate Fighting Championship currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.4M people in France.

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