{"id":744530,"date":"2026-06-18T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744530\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:28:08","slug":"joe-rogan-reveals-ufc-white-house-event-had-over-150-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744530\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan reveals UFC White House event had over 150 million viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re still waiting for the official ratings numbers from Paramount+ on how huge the UFC White House event<\/a> was, but Joe Rogan is sharing the numbers he\u2019s heard, and they\u2019re pretty damn huge.<\/p>\n

To put things in perspective, UFC 324 was streamed<\/a> in 7.18 million households. Netflix announced that their Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano event averaged 12.4 million viewers with a 17 million viewer peak<\/a> for the main event. The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight averaged 108 million viewers.<\/a> Now Rogan is claiming that the UFC White House event was viewed 150 million times on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n

After weeks of being a bit of a negative Nancy over the outdoor setup, Rogan gushed about how amazing the whole event was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a hyperbolic individual and I\u2019m always like, \u2018This is the greatest! This is awesome!\u2019\u201d he admitted on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. \u201cLike, that was the wildest experience that I\u2019ve ever had in my twenty whatever years of calling combat sports. There\u2019s nothing even close. Nothing even close. It was the greatest night of fights of all time. And it was the only night in the history of the sport where every single fight ended by knockout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then, it was like you were doing porn or something, or snuff films,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you were doing something that was damaging for your career. And people would look at you like, \u2018Why are you working for a cage fighting organization? Why would you do that? Cut to twenty five years later, it\u2019s on the lawn of the White House and it is one of the most watched sporting events in the history of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogan didn\u2019t say who he got Paramount+ ratings numbers from, but we already know from UFC CEO Dana White that Paramount+ executive David Ellison was very happy with them.<\/a> If they\u2019re anywhere near Rogan\u2019s numbers, we can see why.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the total overall views are as of now,\u201d Rogan noted. \u201cBut I know that it was well over, I think it was 150 million just by Monday. Just by Monday. So that\u2019s the night of and then people that watched the replay that weren\u2019t there when the fight took place because they heard about it. But now \u2026 between then and now, now we\u2019re dealing with Tuesday. Like, it\u2019s probably another 50 or 60 million people who have watched it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s quite the accomplishment considering Paramount+ currently has around 80 million subscribers worldwide. If everyone with a subscription watched the event once, and they estimated that at least 2 people per stream watched, you\u2019d start getting to Rogan\u2019s numbers. With the event cut up into individual fights, are they counting each video watched? Are they counting viewers on non-Paramount+ broadcast partners internationally? That could pump the numbers up.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, we\u2019re looking for a slightly more reliable breakdown of the numbers from an official source before crowning UFC White House as the most watched MMA event in the history of the sport. But if it\u2019s anywhere even close to what Joe\u2019s saying, the event was a massive success for the UFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re still waiting for the official ratings numbers from Paramount+ on how huge the UFC White House event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,344025,125620],"class_list":["post-744530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-ratings","tag-ufc-white-house-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744530","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=744530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}