Total viewership for the recent UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House could be about double the initial figures Paramount+ announced, according to new numbers UFC released Friday morning.Paramount+ announced June 18 that UFC Freedom 250 drew an average of 7 million viewers to the streaming platform in the United States. That figure was based on numbers from Nielsen, which accounted for viewers aged 2 years or older who watched at least one minute of the broadcast. According to UFC, total viewership was 17 million people across the U.S. and Latin America.Now, the promotion says metrics from additional countries such as Australia, China, India, South Korea, New Zealand and the U.K. have pushed total viewership to an estimated 34 million people, making Freedom 250 one of the most-watched events in UFC history.UFC attributed the updated estimate to data from Nielsen and Paramount’s Adobe Analytics, as well as “an aggregate of internal and external data sourced from UFC’s broadcast partners.”The 34 million number also included “UFC Fight Pass performance” and pay-per-view buys in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. UFC said Spain and France are among several countries that will not report viewership data until mid-July at the earliest.“A portion of global viewership is also modeled on the past performance of comparable UFC events broadcast in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and Sub-Saharan Africa,” said a footnote in the UFC announcement.Domestically, UFC said Freedom 250 was the most-viewed event in the company’s history, as well as the most-watched live event replay in Paramount+ history. However, it did not provide any metrics for the replay viewership assertion.UFC is in the first year of a seven-year, multibillion-dollar broadcasting deal with Paramount, which acquired the rights to air the company’s events. UFC 324, the first numbered UFC event Paramount distributed under the deal, drew an estimated 5 million viewers in January.The seven-fight UFC Freedom 250 card on June 14 was headlined by 37-year-old Justin Gaethje, who broke Ilia Topuria’s undefeated record to claim the UFC’s lightweight championship.