One of Elon Musk’s training partners shared photos of his «impromptu training session» on Twitter Tuesday night as the platform executive prepares for his cage match with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
«I did an impromptu training session with Elon Musk for a few hours yesterday,» Lex Fridman, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tweeted.
Fridman shared two photos from the shoot. One appears to show the two wrestling with Musk in side control trying to isolate Fridman’s right arm. The other appears to show Musk completing a hip toss on little Fridman.
«I am extremely impressed with his strength, power and ability, on his feet and on the ground,» Fridman said, describing his session as «epic.» He continued: «It’s really inspiring to see Elon and Mark doing martial arts, but I think the world benefits much better if they train martial arts but don’t fight in the cage.»
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have agreed to a cage match, but a date has yet to be announced. (fake images)
The supportive Fridman added: «I’m there 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 has 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 it would be an absolute honor to help you and be your sparring partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg,» GSP, who is widely considered one of the greatest fighters of all time in the UFC franchise, tweeted.
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and SpaceX, previously admitted that he doesn’t exercise regularly. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
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«Okay, let’s do it,» Musk responded.
UFC legend Georges St-Pierre has reached out to Elon Musk via Twitter and offered to train him ahead of his potential cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg. (fake images)
«I did a practice round tonight with Lex Fridman,» he added about an hour later.
Musk, who also owns SpaceX, previously admitted he didn’t exercise regularly, though he tweeted Friday that he previously trained in «judo, Kyokushin (full contact) and no-rules street fighting.»
Zuckerberg has trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a self-defense martial art, for more than a year and won an amateur tournament.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook/Meta, poses with UFC President Dana White during the UFC Fight Night event at UFC APEX on October 1, 2022 in Las Vegas. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
The idea for the cage fight began on Twitter on Tuesday, June 20, when Musk and other Twitter users were discussing Meta and developing a Twitter-like competitor.
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Musk then offered to settle the competition with Meta CEO Zuckerberg, who owns Facebook and Instagram, in a cage match.
Zuck then accepted the challenge.
UFC president Dana White later confirmed that the two billionaires were «absolutely serious» about a potential fight.
White told TMZ Sports that the celebrity contest could be «the biggest fight in the history of the world.»
«Bigger than anything that’s ever been done,» White continued. «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 he could «triple» the revenue from the current biggest fight, which was between undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather and former UFC champion Conor McGregor.
Musk suggested that the fight take place in Las Vegas inside a UFC octagon. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
«I just think it triples that. I think it triples what it did. There’s no limit to what that thing can do,» White predicted. «Everybody would see it, everybody would want to see it.»
Musk suggested the fight should take place in Las Vegas, inside a UFC octagon, but no date has been set for the multi-million dollar fight.