Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to be training with UFC champions Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski, according to a photo posted to Adesanya’s Twitter account on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg’s move to work with Adesanya came just over the weekend after he appeared to agree to a cage fight against the head of Twitter and the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.
Meanwhile, Musk has been working out at the gym and keeping an eye out in case the reported fight with Zuckerberg comes to fruition. Photos recently surfaced of Musk, who also owns SpaceX, showing him training with computer scientist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Lex Fridman.
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks during the Silicon Slopes technology summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Friday, January 31, 2020. (George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
However, Musk admitted last week that he might have to work a lot harder to make it to a mixed martial arts arena.
Podcast Lex Fridman recently posted a photo of himself, Musk, UFC legend Georges St. Pierre, and MMA instructor John Danaher during one of their training sessions.
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The Twitter photo from Tuesday shows Adesanya, Volkanovski and Zuckerberg shirtless, accompanied by a caption that reads: «This is serious business.»
The potential cage fight between tech heavyweights has been teased for several weeks.
But, UFC president Dana White recently told the New York Times that he would help produce an exhibition event between the two billionaires and that «they both want to do it.»
White also told TMZ that Zuckerberg and Musk were «absolutely seriousabout a possible fight.
«This would be the biggest fight in the history of the world. Bigger than anything ever done, it would break all pay-per-view records, these guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity,» he said. White told TMZ. .
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have agreed to a cage match, but a date has yet to be announced. (fake images)
Errol Musk, Elon’s father, recently said that he believes his son would end up in a «no-win situation» if he ultimately decides to go ahead with the cage fight.
The elder Musk expressed concern that his son could be labeled a «bully» if the «mad fight» ensued.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are ready to fight, offline. In a now-viral back-and-forth seen on Twitter and Instagram this week, the two tech billionaires apparently agreed to engage in a «cage match.» (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, Stephan Savoia)
«Elon loses if he wins and loses if he loses,» Errol said. «He wins, he’s a bully. Loses, he’s a loser.»
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On Monday, Musk posted a series of tweets in which he resorted to insults as the war of words between the two intensified.
Musk’s tweets were posted the same day Meta’s new app, called Threads, was announced to have hit 100 million users. Musk also claimed that Meta misused some of Twitter’s «intellectual property.»
Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.