Zuckerberg trains with UFC champion, muscular for Musk: 'No Fugazi with Mark The Shark'
It appears Meta Platforms Inc META CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the potential cage fight with Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk very seriously.
What happened: Zuckerberg trained with Israel Adesanya, the current UFC middleweight champion. After practice, Adesanya posted a series of photos with the Meta CEO on the Threads app and captioned an Instagram post, "No fugazi with Mark The Shark."
Adesanya, known for his 24-2-0 professional MMA career, has had a winning streak against other top contenders including Anderson Silva and Kelvin Gastelum. He is a triple threat - mixed martial artist, kickboxer and former boxer - with multiple championships in all three disciplines.
The unlikely partnership came as Musk prepared for the rumored cage fight.
The Tesla CEO was spotted training with UFC legend Georges St. Pierre and MMA instructor John Danaher. Commenting on the tough workout, Musk tweeted that it was a great honor but he needed "a lot more practice".
Jorge Masdival, another prominent UFC personality, has also offered to train Musk.
Also Read: Musk Vs. Zuckerberg: Benzinga Users Favor A Billionaire If The Biggest Fight In "The History Of The World" Happens
The billionaire rivalry has been simmering for more than half a decade, with disagreements spanning topics from artificial intelligence to rocket accidents.
Musk and Zuckerberg have since had no hesitation in throwing beards at each other. Their discord was further aggravated when they began to engage in a "di** measuring contest", initiated by Musk.
With both tech moguls having martial arts backgrounds, the proposed cage match just might be a reality.
Musk, who is 6'1″ tall and weighs between 185 and 200 pounds, received early martial arts training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), karate, taekwondo and judo.
In contrast, Zuckerberg, reported at 5'7″ and weighing around 155 pounds, holds a large BJJ portfolio. He won gold and silver medals in his first BJJ tournament and trained with five-time IBJJF black belt world champion Mikey Musumeci.
The billionaire rivalry also begins to form another deeper layer.
Zuckerberg's latest venture, Threads, a social media site touted as the 'Twitter Killer', gained 70 million subscribers within a day of its launch, angering Musk and his lawyers.
Accusations of unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property soon followed.
But the root of their feud goes back even further, with roots in a disastrous SpaceX launch in 2016 that saw Zuckerberg's satellite destroyed.
And it didn't take long for their professional disagreements to turn into personal affronts.
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It appears Meta Platforms Inc META CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the potential cage fight with Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk very seriously.
What happened: Zuckerberg trained with Israel Adesanya, the current UFC middleweight champion. After practice, Adesanya posted a series of photos with the Meta CEO on the Threads app and captioned an Instagram post, "No fugazi with Mark The Shark."
Adesanya, known for his 24-2-0 professional MMA career, has had a winning streak against other top contenders including Anderson Silva and Kelvin Gastelum. He is a triple threat - mixed martial artist, kickboxer and former boxer - with multiple championships in all three disciplines.
The unlikely partnership came as Musk prepared for the rumored cage fight.
The Tesla CEO was spotted training with UFC legend Georges St. Pierre and MMA instructor John Danaher. Commenting on the tough workout, Musk tweeted that it was a great honor but he needed "a lot more practice".
Jorge Masdival, another prominent UFC personality, has also offered to train Musk.
Also Read: Musk Vs. Zuckerberg: Benzinga Users Favor A Billionaire If The Biggest Fight In "The History Of The World" Happens
The billionaire rivalry has been simmering for more than half a decade, with disagreements spanning topics from artificial intelligence to rocket accidents.
Musk and Zuckerberg have since had no hesitation in throwing beards at each other. Their discord was further aggravated when they began to engage in a "di** measuring contest", initiated by Musk.
With both tech moguls having martial arts backgrounds, the proposed cage match just might be a reality.
Musk, who is 6'1″ tall and weighs between 185 and 200 pounds, received early martial arts training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), karate, taekwondo and judo.
In contrast, Zuckerberg, reported at 5'7″ and weighing around 155 pounds, holds a large BJJ portfolio. He won gold and silver medals in his first BJJ tournament and trained with five-time IBJJF black belt world champion Mikey Musumeci.
The billionaire rivalry also begins to form another deeper layer.
Zuckerberg's latest venture, Threads, a social media site touted as the 'Twitter Killer', gained 70 million subscribers within a day of its launch, angering Musk and his lawyers.
Accusations of unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property soon followed.
But the root of their feud goes back even further, with roots in a disastrous SpaceX launch in 2016 that saw Zuckerberg's satellite destroyed.
And it didn't take long for their professional disagreements to turn into personal affronts.
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