Elon Musk has accepted help from a former UFC champion for his proposed fight with Mark Zuckerberg.
The Twitter and Facebook bosses recently seemed to agree to take part in an MMA fight on social media. Responding to a post about Facebook CEO Zuckerberg’s potential plans to launch a rival platform to Twitter, Musk replied, "I'm up for a cage match if he is.” Zuckerberg then reacted by asking Musk to “send location”.
This sparked a flurry of offers from combat sport stars to help train the tech billionaires ahead of their bizarre fight. Among them was UFC legend and former two-weight world champion Georges St-Pierre, who bowed out of the sport by winning the middleweight belt against British fighter Michael Bisping in 2017.
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"I'm a huge fan of yours and it would be an absolute honour to help you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg,” St-Pierre said. It was an offer that Twitter boss Musk seemingly could not turn down, replying, "Ok, let's do it."
The celebrity fight has certainly piqued the interest of UFC president Dana White, who has already posed in a promotional t-shirt and defended the possible bout on social media. White is convinced that both men want the event to take place and is eager to host the fight in a UFC octagon.
"I probably spent an hour and a half with them on the phone, both guys are absolutely dead serious about this,” White told TMZ Sports. “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."
