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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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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
76 Danny MacAskill 17k 42.8 12.6% Martial art
77 Cyrille Diabaté 17k 35.5 41.2% Martial art
78 Alistair Overeem 17k 23.6 0.0% Martial art
79 Morihei Ueshiba 16k 48.4 0.0% Martial art
80 Tony Bellew 15k 36.8 65.3% Martial art
81 Mickael Lebout 15k 37.1 23.6% Martial art
82 B.J. Penn 15k 32.7 6.8% Martial art
83 Alexandre Ribeiro 15k 50.1 39.2% Martial art
84 Gennady Golovkin 14k 35.4 44.6% Martial art
85 Joseph Parker (boxer) 14k 28.6 0.0% Martial art
86 Lyoto Machida 13k 30.1 0.0% Martial art
87 Stipe Miocic 13k 32.3 76.5% Martial art
88 Chuck Liddell 13k 29.2 3.7% Martial art
89 Dereck Chisora 13k 39.4 50.0% Martial art
90 David Haye 13k 36.9 51.8% Martial art
91 Frédéric Vosgröne 12k 37.2 20.9% Martial art
92 Frederic Vosgröne 12k 37.1 23.6% Martial art
93 Gracie family 12k 33.0 17.7% Martial art
94 Vitor Belfort 12k 32.8 14.9% Martial art
95 Rickson Gracie 12k 35.1 22.9% Martial art
96 Jorick Montagnac 12k 37.1 23.6% Martial art
97 Alexander Gustafsson 11k 39.8 19.0% Martial art
98 Thor Hushovd 10k 43.1 61.4% Martial art
99 Luke Rockhold 10k 36.6 25.6% Martial art
100 Roy Jones, Jr. 9.5k 35.6 60.5% 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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