Mark Zuckerberg trains with UFC champions, preps for ‘cage fight’ with Elon Musk?

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been teasing netizens with a ‘cage fight’ for weeks and the Meta CEO’s newest social media put up additional stoked curiosity in regards to the potential showdown. In an Instagram put up, Zuckerberg was seen posing with two famend Ultimate Fighting Champions (UFC) – Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski.

Earlier, the president of the American combined martial arts (MMA) promotion firm – Dana White – advised the New York Times that he would assist arrange an exhibition occasion between the tech CEOs and that “they both want to do it.”

According to TMZ, Zuckerberg has been present process intense coaching prior to now few days with two of the very best trendy MMA fighters of this era. Adesanya, the middleweight champion, and Volkanovski, the featherweight champion, arrived at Zuckerberg’s residence in Northern California after Saturday evening’s UFC 290 showcase in Las Vegas. The three have been diligently coaching at a gymnasium situated in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as per media studies.

“No fugazi with Mark. This is serious business,” Adesanya captioned the put up in a veiled reference to the ‘cage match’ chatter. Zuckerberg responded to the put up by thanking the UFC stars for his or her help and the chance to coach alongside them.

In February, Zuckerberg shared a video of him and Volkanovski sparring within the Metaverse.

The transfer comes amid Musk accepting George St-Pierre’s invitation to coach over Twitter. In a July 3 tweet, the previous UFC legend confirmed that he “had a great training session” with Musk.

Musk’s photographs of him coaching with Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt Lex Fridman had emerged just a few weeks in the past, which the web claimed to be ‘preparation for the match’. The billionaire, who not too long ago launched Twitter’s strongest rival but – Threads – has skilled in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu for a while, securing two medals in his first Jiu-Jitsu match in May.

Talk of the cage match between the 2 broke after Musk and Zuckerberg traded barbs over Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. Sharing a screenshot of Musk’s tweet that talked about being “up for a cage fight”, Zuckerberg wrote, “send me location.”

It is unclear if the extremely anticipated combat will happen, however tensions run excessive between the 2 tech titans as their text-based apps battle it out within the digital market. On the day Threads hit 100 million customers, Musk known as Zuckerberg a “cuck” and pitched a “literal dick measuring contest”. Musk threatened to sue Meta final week for utilizing Twitter’s “trade secrets and intellectual property” to construct Threads by poaching former Twitter staff.