Elon Musk trains for Zuckerberg fight with UFC legend Georges St-Pierre

Elon Musk is apparently starting to take his training seriously for a potential fight versus Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The Twitter owner had a training session with UFC legend George St-Pierre this week, alongside famed jiu-jitsu trainer John Danaher and researcher/podcaster Lex Fridman. After hearing of the potential fight between Musk and Zuckerberg, St-Pierre reached out with an offer to train the Tesla CEO.

Fridman posted a picture of the group, to which Musk replied: “Really fun! The obvious conclusion is that I need a *lot* more training.”

Really fun! The obvious conclusion is that I need a *lot* more training.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2023

St-Pierre is one of the greatest mixed martial artists in the history of the sport. He was the long-reigning welterweight champion in the UFC. After stepping away, he eventually came back and won the middleweight title before health issues forced him back into retirement.

It’s unclear how Musk would match up against the much-lighter Zuckerberg.

The two “tech bros” exchanged a series of messages across multiple social media platforms. Both indicated they’d be down for a fight.

It started when Musk replied to two users on Twitter that he’s “up for a cage match if he is,” referring to Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO. Zuckerberg then took a screenshot of that and added a “send me location” graphic, posting it to his Instagram account on Wednesday.

UFC president Dana White said a fight pitting  Zuckerberg vs. Musk would be “the biggest fight ever.”

“Both guys are absolutely serious about this,” White said in a TMZ exclusive. “This would be the biggest fight ever, in the history of the world. Bigger than anything that’s ever been done. It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity.”

Zuckerberg launches new Twitter rival

The octagon is not the only flighting ground for Musk and Zuckerberg lately. The Meta CEO launched a brand new platform this week, intended to provide yet another rival to Musk’s own social media, Twitter, which he purchased for $44 billion late last year.

Threads, an Instagram-linked platform, reportedly has 30 million sign-ups within the first 24 hours of the launch.

“Wow, 30 million sign ups as of this morning. Feels like the beginning of something special, but we’ve got a lot of work ahead to build out the app,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday. 

The Facebook creator hadn’t Tweeted since 2012, but took to the platform on Wednesday to share the Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman meme as if to say it’s the same as Threads.

“It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram,” Musk responded to a tweet of a photo that shows the Twitter owner explaining why he quit Instagram in August of 2018, calling it “weak sauce.”

Twitter users recently slammed the Musk-run social media platform after he announced there would be a limit to how many posts a user could read in a day as the company. The temporary limits were to help “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” per Musk.