Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk had been teasing netizens with a ‘cage combat’ for weeks and the Meta CEO’s newest social media submit additional stoked interest concerning the possible showdown. In an Instagram submit, Zuckerberg was once observed posing with two famend Ultimate Fighting Champions (UFC) – Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski.
Earlier, the president of the American blended martial arts (MMA) promotion corporate – Dana White – advised the New York Times that he would assist arrange an exhibition match between the tech CEOs and that “they both want to do it.”
According to TMZ, Zuckerberg has been present process intense coaching up to now few days with two of the most efficient fashionable MMA warring parties of this era. Adesanya, the middleweight champion, and Volkanovski, the featherweight champion, arrived at Zuckerberg’s place of dwelling in Northern California after Saturday night time’s UFC 290 exhibit in Las Vegas. The 3 had been diligently coaching at a health club positioned in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as in line with media experiences.
“No fugazi with Mark. This is serious business,” Adesanya captioned the submit in a veiled connection with the ‘cage fit’ chatter. Zuckerberg spoke back to the submit via thanking the UFC stars for his or her fortify and the chance to coach along 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 showed that he “had a great training session” with Musk.
Musk’s pictures of him coaching with Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt Lex Fridman had emerged a couple of weeks in the past, which the web claimed to be ‘preparation for the fit’. The billionaire, who not too long ago introduced Twitter’s most powerful rival but – Threads – has educated in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for a while, securing two medals in his first Jiu-Jitsu match in May.
Talk of the cage fit 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 discussed being “up for a cage fight”, Zuckerberg wrote, “send me location.”
It is unclear if the extremely expected combat will happen, however tensions run top between the 2 tech titans as their text-based apps struggle it out within the virtual market. On the day Threads hit 100 million customers, Musk referred to as Zuckerberg a “cuck” and pitched a “literal dick measuring contest”. Musk threatened to sue Meta ultimate week for the usage of Twitter’s “trade secrets and intellectual property” to construct Threads via poaching former Twitter staff.