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Top 100 Martial arts in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest martial arts in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 612 martial arts tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Ultimate Fighting Championship, Professional wrestling and Professional wrestling promotion lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 10M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 150k, and the largest, Ultimate Fighting Championship, reaches around 5.9M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each martial art, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan 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 Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. 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 Japan, 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 Japan. 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 37k 36.0 68.8% Martial art
27 Toy Machine 37k 25.7 45.3% Martial art
28 Dustin Poirier 36k 28.5 11.5% Martial art
29 Deontay Wilder 34k 34.2 71.1% Martial art
30 Golden Gloves 33k 33.4 56.5% Martial art
31 Devon Larratt 33k 34.5 12.7% Martial art
32 Saúl Álvarez 31k 33.6 20.4% Martial art
33 George Foreman 30k 27.7 61.7% Martial art
34 Dana White 28k 28.8 28.5% Martial art
35 Ben Askren 28k 36.4 23.1% Martial art
36 Israel Adesanya 28k 32.4 28.4% Martial art
37 Quinton Jackson 28k 32.7 18.3% Martial art
38 Oscar De La Hoya 24k 49.9 0.0% Martial art
39 Oleksandr Ussyk 24k 30.2 47.0% Martial art
40 MMAFighting.com - The Mixed Martial Arts News Website 24k 31.1 24.6% Martial art
41 Buakaw Banchamek 22k 40.9 66.7% Martial art
42 Nate Diaz 22k 35.6 53.6% Martial art
43 Anderson Silva 19k 50.4 49.0% Martial art
44 Demetrious Johnson (fighter) 17k 37.8 13.9% Martial art
45 Dorian Yates 15k 31.4 12.9% Martial art
46 Tony Ferguson 15k 24.3 28.3% Martial art
47 FBT (company) 15k 33.2 0.0% Martial art
48 Petr Yan 14k 32.4 28.4% Martial art
49 Fedor Emelianenko 14k 34.8 11.1% Martial art
50 Paige VanZant 14k 39.9 7.7% Martial art

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan 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 Japan?

Ultimate Fighting Championship currently leads with an estimated audience of 5.9M people in Japan.

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