UFC Hall of Famer Georges St-Pierre to train Elon Musk for fight against Mark Zuckerberg
UFC Hall of Famer Georges St. Pierre is willing to train Elon Musk for a potential MMA fight against Mark Zuckerberg.
Dana White already said it would be the biggest fight ever and seemingly wants to make it happen. Zuckerberg, who trains and competes in jiu-jitsu and standard MMA, looks to have the advantage.
So enter St. Pierre, who wants to train Musk for this fight.
“(Elon Musk,) I’m a huge fan of yours and it would be an absolute honor to help you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg (fist emoji, smiling emoji),” St. Pierre wrote on Twitter.
Musk, who now runs Twitter, responded promptly on the app.
“Ok, let’s do it (two fire emojis),” Musk wrote back.
Zuckerberg and Musk exchanged a series of messages across multiple social media platforms indicating 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.
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.”
Former UFC champion Matt Serra seems to be on the side of Zuckerberg, at least in terms of who would win the fight. He said Musk would have no chance.
So Musk better start training with St. Pierre as soon as possible.
“I say Zuckerberg wins by a rear naked chokehold in the first round,” Matt Serra, a former UFC fighter, told the New York Post. “I don’t think his [stand up] striking is going to crack an egg, but I think he’s smart and will close the distance in grappling on the ground.”
It’s not that Musk never trained in martial arts before, but it is unclear how experienced he is. The Twitter CEO reportedly has training in Kyokushin karate, taekwondo and judo.
St. Pierre is considered one of the greatest mixed-martial artists in the history of the sport. He was the long reigning welterweight champion in the UFC and after stepping away, eventually came back and won the middleweight title before health issues forced him back into retirement.
Musk and St. Pierre together? Sign us up for that corner in a fight against Zuckerberg.