But why on earth is Mark Zuckerberg appearing alongside a champion of MMA, a combat sport?

The founder of Meta, owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg, caused a surprise by standing alongside a UFC champion on Saturday. The billionaire is passionate about MMA and more broadly combat sports.

Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t fighting Saturday night, but he was in the thick of the action. The big boss of the giant Meta caused a sensation by accompanying the Australian Alexander Volkanovski during UFC 298 in Anaheim in the United States. If the evening ended with an unexpected defeat for Volkanovski against Ilia Topuria, ending a four-year featherweight reign in the competition, she recalled that Zuckerberg, once challenged by Elon Musk, does not lack hobby.

Mark Zuckerberg and Alexander Volkanovski, training partners

A true combat sports fan, Mark Zuckerberg accompanied Volkanovski’s team during the main fight of the evening, wearing a tracksuit from the Australian champion’s team. But his support was not enough, since it was Ilia Topuria who won the precious belt, by knockout in the second round.

The founder of the Meta group had recently considered a cage fight with his rival Elon Musk. To prepare, Mark Zuckerberg, who is preparing in parallel for the end of the mode by having a mega bunker built in Hawaii, had trained with UFC champions like Alexander Volkanovski and Israel Adesanya in Australia in particular, which partly explains his presence in the room this weekend.

The founder of Facebook soon in the arena?

In Anaheim, not far from the grounds of the first Disneyland park, Mark Zuckerberg was invited this weekend by the boss of the UFC himself, Dana White. As a reminder, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest global MMA league, that is to say mixed martial arts, a compendium of disciplines that the creator of Facebook greatly appreciates, jiu-jitsu in particular, which he practices regularly.

It was his passion for MMA that led him to attend the event called “UFC 298”. Despite Volkanovski’s defeat, the presence of Mark Zuckerberg in the fighter’s corner, team outfit on, was the major event of the evening.

From there to imagining the billionaire taking the plunge and one day launching into the arena to feel all the adrenaline of this valiant competition, there is more than one step that we would not dare to take right away. In the meantime, Volkanovski has already requested his revenge.

Source : Independent