{"id":620259,"date":"2026-04-21T00:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:32:13","slug":"mikuru-asakura-34-is-a-japanese-mixed-martial-arts-mma-superstar-with-676-2-million-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620259\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikuru Asakura (34) is a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar with 676.2 million subscribers .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p refid=\"1\">Mikuru Asakura (34) is a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar with 676.2 million subscribers to six official SNS and YouTube channels. Since March 2021, he has also been the representative of Breaking Down.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"2\">Breakingdown created great synergy as one minute of content per round matched the trend of preferring short-breathing videos. According to MK Sports coverage, Mikuru Asakura posts a video related to &#8220;Black Kombat&#8221; on his 3.53 million subscribers YouTube channel in late May 2026.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"3\">Black Kombat is a mixed martial arts organization with 96 players ranked in the &#8220;Fight Matrix&#8221; world, sixth in Asia and 14th in the global rankings. Breakingdown was filmed in Korea until April 15 and auditioned in Japan after April 17.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/news-p.v1.20260421.64fa5a502d2f4054aee26734560fd4c2_P1.png\" orgwidth=\"660\" orgheight=\"330\" alt=\"Japanese MMA superstar Mikuru Asakura YouTube channel banner, Korean MMA organization Black Kombat YouTube channel banner. \uc0ac\uc9c4@mikuruasakura1\/@blackcombat\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Japanese MMA superstar Mikuru Asakura YouTube channel banner, Korean MMA organization Black Kombat YouTube channel banner. \uc0ac\uc9c4@mikuruasakura1\/@blackcombat                  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/news-p.v1.20260421.c07b0aff9ca04098b0b094cde173df8e_P1.png\" orgwidth=\"660\" orgheight=\"376\" alt=\"Global rankings of MMA players\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Global rankings of MMA players      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"6\">Auditions have established themselves as one of the representative content of Breakingdown since March 2022. The video featuring Black Kombat fighters is in charge of promoting Breaking Down 20.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"7\">Breakingdown 20 will be held on June 14, 2026 at Marine Metse A in Fukuoka, Japan, which can accommodate up to 1.5 million people. Whether all the Black Kombat players who participated in the audition got a chance to participate in the competition will be found out on the Asakura Mikuru YouTube channel at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/news-p.v1.20260421.3ee1f3ccc03b4cb5bdd6b9137ee8836d_P1.png\" orgwidth=\"660\" orgheight=\"365\" alt=\"Breakingdown 20 will be held on June 14, 2026 at Marine Metse A in Fukuoka, Japan, which can accommodate up to 1.5 million people. Japanese mixed martial arts superstar Asakura Meeruku has been the representative since March 2021. \uc0ac\uc9c4=BreakingDown\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                Breakingdown 20 will be held on June 14, 2026 at Marine Metse A in Fukuoka, Japan, which can accommodate up to 1.5 million people. Japanese mixed martial arts superstar Asakura Meeruku has been the representative since March 2021. \uc0ac\uc9c4=BreakingDown      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"9\">The audition was held with a maximum of 1 minute \u00d7 3 rounds of mixed martial arts competitions, including overtime. MK Sports confirmed the appearance of five Korean fighters, including \u25b2 3 in 4 games of Black Kombat \u25b2 1 in 2 games of Black Kombat \u25b2 1 in 0 games of Black Kombat.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"10\">In this breaking down audition, heavy Korean players such as \u25b3 Black Kombat Current Champion \u25b3 Black Kombat title match \u25b3 Korean other team champion \u25b3 Japanese MMA team champion \u25b3 Japanese kickboxing team champion added to the buzz.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"11\">[Kang Daeho, MK Sports Reporter]<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Black Combat<\/p>\n<p> Mixed Martial Arts<\/p>\n<p> Asakura<\/p>\n<p> Breaking<\/p>\n<p> Superstar<\/p>\n<p> Breaking Down<\/p>\n<p> MK Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikuru Asakura (34) is a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar with 676.2 million subscribers to six official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-620259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}