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Comparison of interest in the MMA promotions (UFC, ONE Championship, Bellator & Rizin) according to Google Trends.

United States: UFC is king and if you somehow needed confirmation, McGregor is massive.
Japan: UFC & Rizin are about the same, small spikes when Rizin has their events. Ignore the spike at the end because full data is not in yet. Will probably be much bigger than the other 3 spikes.
Singapore: UFC reigns supreme in ONE’s hometown.

ONE’s spike in May is thanks to Angela Lee’s fight with Mei Yamaguchi in Singapore. Angela withdrew injured from the November card hence the much smaller spike.

Again, the McGregor effect in October.
Thailand: ONE had Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in a world title boxing fight headline the October card in Bangkok. Not that much more interest than their Bangkok card earlier in the year.

Again, McGregor dwarfs everything
Philippines: It’s been a massive year for Team Lakay in ONE. Ended the year with 5 champions. However, the interest isn’t really mainstream. UFC is still more popular even when ONE is in town.

Manny Pacquiao is of course the big daddy (July 15th, vs Matthysse)
Myanmar: The only country where ONE is legitimately more popular. Aung La N Sang is truly very popular there. In this regard, he beat McGregor.

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Credit: Idea from Redditor u/hdx514
UFC/NFL/NBA/MLB

Even with a McGregor boost, basketball and football blow UFC out of the water.
Ok one last comparison. Since Chatri claims ONE is bigger than F1, a comparison is in order.

Globally, ONE is just a rounding error compared to F1. In ONE’s hometown, F1 is more popular yearlong and kills it when the Singapore F1 race is around.

#ONEChampionship #F1
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