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One of Elon Musk’s sparring partners shared photos of their “impromptu training session” on Twitter on Tuesday night, as the platform’s director prepares for his cage match with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
“I did an impromptu training session with Elon Musk for a few hours yesterday,” tweeted Lex Fridman, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Fridman shared two photos from the session. One appears to show the two grappling with Musk in a sideways check trying to isolate Fridman’s right arm. The other appears to show Musk performing a hip throw on the smaller Fridman.
“I am extremely impressed with his strength, power and skill, on foot and on the ground,” said Fridman, who described their session as “epic”. He continued, “It’s really inspiring to see Elon and Mark doing martial arts, but I think the world would be much better served if they train martial arts but don’t fight in the cage.”
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have agreed on a cage match, but a date has not yet been announced. (Getty Images)
The supportive Fridman added, “I’m here for them no matter what.”
“That was fun!” Musk commented on the photos.
The training session comes ahead of an unscheduled fight between Zuckerberg and Musk, who also agreed to begin training with UFC Hall of Famer George St-Pierre to prepare for the bout.
“I’m a huge fan of yours and would be an absolute honor to assist you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg,” tweeted GSP, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time in the UFC. franchise.
Elon Musk, owner of Twitter and SpaceX, previously admitted not exercising regularly. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
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“Okay, let’s do it,” Musk replied.
UFC legend Georges St-Pierre reached out to Elon Musk via Twitter and offered to train him ahead of his potential cage match with Mark Zuckerberg. (Getty Images)
“Took a practice run with Lex Fridman tonight,” he added an hour later.
Musk, who also owns SpaceX, previously admitted to not training regularly, though he tweeted on Friday that he previously trained in “judo, Kyokushin (full contact) and no-rules street fighting.”
Zuckerberg trained for over a year in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art for self-defense, and won an amateur tournament.
Facebook/Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg poses with UFC President Dana White at the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 1, 2022 in Las Vegas. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
The idea for the cage contest started on Twitter last Tuesday, June 20, when Musk and other users on the platform discussed Meta and the development of a Twitter-like competitor.
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Musk then offered to compete with Meta CEO Zuckerberg, who owns Facebook and Instagram, in a cage match.
De Zuck later accepted the challenge.
UFC president Dana White later confirmed that the two billionaires were “absolutely deadly serious” about a possible fight.
White told TMZ Sports that the celebrity match could be the “biggest fight ever in the history of the world.”
“Bigger than anything ever done,” continued White. “It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. You don’t have to be a fight fan to be interested in this fight. Everyone would want to see it.”
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He also said it could “triple” the proceeds of the current biggest fight between undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather and former UFC champion Conor McGregor.
Musk suggested that the fight take place in Las Vegas in a UFC Octagon. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
“I just think it triples that. I think it triples what that did. There’s no limit to what that thing can make,” White predicted. “Everyone would watch it, everyone would want to see it.”
Musk suggested the fight would take place in Las Vegas, in a UFC Octagon, but no date has been set for the billionaire brawl.
