Numbers Are In: Here’s How Many People Watched UFC Freedom 250 Hosted At The White House

The UFC Freedom 250 event hosted at the White House was a complete success.

The event had it all.

It had service members in attendance, knockouts, President Trump ringside, and one of the greatest fights in UFC history when underdog Justin Gaethje defeteaed Ilia Topuria to win the lightweight championship.

In case you missed it here were some of the highlights:

This was awesome to see:

Now Paramount+ has just released the numbers of how many people watched the event in the United States and Latin America.

Yahoo Sports provided the numbers from Paramount+:

Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House drew a streaming audience of 17 million viewers across the United States and Latin America, Paramount+ announced on Thursday.

That audience set a record for a live event on Paramount+, according to numbers compiled by Nielsen (for the U.S.) and Adobe Analytics (for Latin America). The streaming telecast averaged 8.2M viewers across both markets.

The breakdown for the total viewership — that watched at least one minute of the event — was 15.26 million in the U.S. and 1.67 in Latin America. The average audience during the seven-bout UFC card was 7.0 million for the U.S. and 1.2 million for Latin America.

Those figures do not include delayed viewing or viewers who watched on DVR within one day of the event, known as +1 viewership.

Those however aren’t the final numbers.

Paramount also revealed they still have to count the number of people who watched the fight outside of the U.S. and Latin America:

Paramount+ today announced that viewership across the U.S. and Latin America for UFC Freedom 250 reached a record-breaking 17M total viewers on Paramount+ according to Nielsen (US) and Adobe Analytics** (Latin America). UFC’s unprecedented White House card marked the biggest exclusive live event in Paramount+ history, averaging 8.2M viewers across both markets. The UFC will announce viewership numbers outside the U.S. and Latin America next week.

It was also the first time in UFC history in which every fight on the card ended with a “Knockout” or “Technical Knockout” (KO or TKO), culminating with an upset by Justin Gaethje, who earned a win over Ilia Topuria following a fourth-round corner stoppage to claim the undisputed lightweight title. The event was available exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Latin America without the additional pay-per-view cost historically required for UFC Numbered Event main cards.

The event dominated X on fight night with 27 trending topics in the US including 10 hours at the #1 spot. Worldwide, the event generated 22 trending topics with 8 hours at #1.

More than 130,000 people also gathered over two days in the Ellipse across from the White House for the Fan Fest that featured athlete meet & greets, ceremonial weigh-ins, live music, and the thrilling UFC Freedom 250 watch party.

Here was Joe Rogan’s thoughts on the event:

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