Thursday, May 7, 2009

Which fighters are popular in Japan?

Who is popular fighter at Japan?People saying about tv ratings etc.But I think that isn't enough to explain how really popular they are.Today I introduce Japanese biggest SNS's MMA fighter fan group's count.I don't pick up every fighter.Just do it for reference.There is possibility I overlook fighter's biggest fan group.

Which fighters are popular in Japan? People talk about TV ratings and such, but I don't think that's enough to gouge how popular certain fighters are. Below are the member counts for fighter "fan groups" on Japan's biggest social networking sites. I didn't catch every fighter and this is just for reference. I may have overlooked some big fighters' fan groups.

MMA - 21,703

Pride Fighting Championships- 22,190
Enson Inoue - 1,170
Rickson Gracie - 598
Ricardo Arona - 540
Igor Vovchanchyn - 416
Royce Gracie - 35
Renzo Gracie - 31

Hero's - 1,081
Genki Sudo - 10,849

Dream - 7,090
Kazushi Sakuraba - 4,179
Mirko Cro Cop - 3,800
Ikuhisa Minowa - 3,221
Shinya Aoki - 2,568
Kid Yamamoto - 2,385
Tatsuya Kawajiri - 1,022
Hayato "Mach" Sakurai - 931
Hideo Tokoro - 868
Masakazu Imanari - 762


Masakazu Imanari

Joachim Hansen - 699
Melvin Manhoef - 606
Katsuyori Shibata - 585
Masakatsu Funaki - 453
Hiroyuki Takaya - 358
Alistair Overeem - 199
Kazuyuki Miyata - 178
Mitsuhiro Ishida - 176
"Wicky" Akiyo - 176
Atsushi Yamamoto - 158
"JZ" Cavalcante - 115
Yoshiro Maeda - 88
Murilo "Ninja" Rua - 67
DJ Taiki - 65
Gegard Mousasi - 60
Dong Sik Yoon - 45
Riki Fukuda - 36

Sengoku - 3,365
Hidehiko Yoshida - 582
Kazuo Misaki - 461
Satoru Kitaoka - 358
Kazuyuki Fujita - 273
Hatsu Hioki - 138


Hatsu Hioki

Kevin Randleman - 130
Kazuhiro Nakamura - 119
Ryo Kawamura - 109
Shintaro Ishiwatari - 87
Kazunori Yokota - 81
"Kiss" Nakao - 61
Yuki Sasaki - 58
Kei Yamamiya - 54
Makoto Takimoto - 48
Michihiro Omigawa - 39
Hideki Kadowaki - 15
Jorge Santiago - 5

UFC - 5,132
The Ultimate Fighter - 590
Caol Uno - 2,107
Wanderlei Silva - 1,888
Big Nog - 982
Yoshihiro Akiyama - 660
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua - 558
Georges St-Pierre - 421
Akihiro Gono - 358
Heath Herring - 299
B.J. Penn - 282
Dan Henderson - 255
Ryo Chonan - 228


Ryo Chonan

Brock Lesnar - 171
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson - 162
Yushin Okami - 136
Randy Couture - 94
Mark Coleman - 76
Denis Kang - 74
Chuck Liddell - 69
Matt Hughes - 68
Lyoto Machida - 51
Anderson Silva - 31
Frank Mir - 22
Forrest Griffin - 1

Affliction - 214
Fedor - 7,995
Josh Barnett - 1,816
Sokoudjou - 144
Andrei Arlovski - 113
Vitor Belfort - 70
Lil Nog - 36

WEC - 163
Takeya Mizugaki - 81
Akitoshi Tamura - 17
Urijah Faber - 8
Miguel Torres - 3

Shooto - 3,019
Amateur Shooto - 752
Takanori Gomi - 3,921


Takanori Gomi

Rumina Sato - 1,360
Yuki Nakai - 192
"Lion" Takeshi Inoue - 137
Mamoru Yamaguchi - 98
Kotetsu Boku - 71
"BJ" Kojima - 70
Hiromasa Ogikubo - 56
Yusuke Endo - 36
Masakatsu Ueda - 33
Yuki Shoujou - 29

DEEP - 1,100
Dokonjonosuke Mishima - 259
Miku Matsumoto - 191
Katsunori Kikuno - 168
Sakoto Shinashi - 139
Jutaro Nakao - 54
Koichiro Matsumoto - 21
Nobuhiro Obiya - 8

Pancrase - 685
Yuki Kondo - 275
Takafumi Ito - 44
Katsuya Inoue - 22


Katsuya Inoue

ZST - 426
SWAT - 45
Naoyuki Kotani - 25

Cage Force - 293
Yasuhiro Urushitani - 132
Kuniyoshi Hironaka - 104


Kuniyoshi Hironaka

Smackgirl - 219
Hisae Watanabe - 296

Valkyrie - 162
Yuka Tsuji - 131
"Windy" Tomomi Sunaba - 51
Takayo Hashi - 21

Jewels - 72
Megumi Fujii - 172

Bellator - 0
Eddie Alvarez - 139

Strikeforce - 13
Frank Shamrock - 20
Phil Baroni - 11
Nick Diaz - 9

The Outsider - 3,506
Rings - 961

Powergate - 339
Goodman Tanaka - 32

Tribelate - 145
Shusshu - 60
Heat - 42

Kimbo Slice - 254

Big thanks to Chris Nelson (from Bloody Elbow) for English and editing.

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