The Biggest Kickboxing Franchises (2026)

On the fitness side, kickboxing has real national franchises — 9Round, iLoveKickboxing, CKO Kickboxing, TITLE Boxing Club and Jabz Boxing run cardio-kickboxing and boxing-fitness studios coast to coast. But the honest headline is that most kickboxing gyms are independent, locally owned rooms. Here's the franchise league table from our directory, and the equally useful question it points to: what else do these gyms teach? Updated 2026-07-19.

The franchise league table

These are the multi-location kickboxing and boxing-fitness franchises we can identify by gym name across the 5,673 gyms in the directory, ranked by how many locations each runs. A franchise brings a consistent class format, branded equipment, and a familiar workout from one studio to the next — handy if you like knowing what you're walking into.

#	Franchise	Locations in directory
1	9Round	130
2	TITLE Boxing Club	92
3	CKO Kickboxing	47
4	UFC Gym	23
5	iLoveKickboxing	19
6	KickHouse	14
7	Jabz Boxing	6
8	Ultimate Kickboxing	1

Even so, most gyms stay independent: 5,341 — 94.1% of the directory belongs to no national franchise. And a well-known brand is a starting point, not a guarantee — every gym is still its own room with its own coaches, so how to choose a gym (coaching, class vibe, cleanliness, whether it's cardio-focused or competitive) matters as much as the name over the door.

What else do kickboxing gyms teach?

Kickboxing gyms are rarely one-discipline rooms. 93.9% of them also teach at least one other martial art, an average of 3.3 other disciplines each — many American kickboxing gyms are really full striking-and-fitness houses. Self-Defense is the most common companion art, on the schedule at 63.7% of gyms.

Discipline	Kickboxing gyms that also teach it	Share of all gyms
Self-Defense	3,614	63.7%
Boxing	3,575	63%
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu	3,071	54.1%
Muay Thai	2,998	52.8%
MMA	2,705	47.7%
Karate	1,543	27.2%

Browse any of these as its own layer — every gym that pairs kickboxing with, say, MMA or muay thai — from the disciplines directory. Weighing arts against each other? Start with kickboxing vs muay thai vs boxing.

How many arts under one roof?

Counting kickboxing plus every other art a gym trains, the typical gym is a small multi-style room, not a one-class studio. The most common profile is a gym teaching kickboxing plus 4 other arts. Only 345 gyms show kickboxing on its own so far — and some of those simply haven't had their full schedule surface in our crawl yet.

Other arts taught (besides kickboxing)	Gyms
Kickboxing only (so far)	345
+ 1 other art	911
+ 2 other arts	889
+ 3 other arts	1,023
+ 4 other arts	1,109
+ 5 other arts	1,064
+ 6 other arts	332

These are evidence floors — a gym counts an art only once its website or a reviewer names it — so single-art counts shrink as the crawl fills in.

Cite this data

Suggested attribution: “The Biggest Kickboxing Franchises” — KickboxingClasses.net, 2026, linked to https://www.kickboxingclasses.net/kickboxing-stats/chains/. The tables are CC BY 4.0: chart them, quote them, publish them — just link back. Want a custom cut (by state, metro, or discipline)? Email us.

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Methodology: franchise assignment comes from gym names and the brands' own location lists; a gym is "independent" unless it clearly belongs to a known franchise. The disciplines mix is mined from each gym's website and its customer reviews — a discipline counts only when named in the gym's own copy or a reviewer's words, never guessed from the business category — so all shares are floors that grow with each re-crawl of our 5,673-gym directory. Share = gyms teaching that art ÷ all directory gyms. We are not affiliated with any gym or franchise. More data: the stats hub and America's kickboxing capitals.