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Jon Jones Offers To Train With Mark Zuckerberg For Elon Musk Fight

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Battle lines are being drawn in the cage fight between tech giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Musk issued the challenge earlier this week, with the META founder quickly accepting. According to the UFC’s Dana White, both men are “dead serious” about taking part.

Some logistical obstacles do remain, such as a date, location, and promotion. Furthermore, Musk is significantly heavier than Zuckerberg, as much as three weight classes higher per standard MMA division. Despite this, oddsmakers are giving Zuckerberg a significant advantage over his South African rival.

Meanwhile, kickboxer and influencer Andrew Tate stepped in with an offer to train Musk. This comes as a result of Tate being banned on all META-owned platforms due to his spreading of COVID misinformation. Now Zuckerberg is getting his own training offer, this one from UFC champion and MMA legend Jon Jones.

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Jon Jones Says He’s “Team Zuck”

Jones tweeted out his support for Zuckerberg on June 23. Their friendship formed earlier this year, when Jones commented positively about a video of Zuck sparring in the metaverse with Alex Volkanovski. In return, Zuckerberg wished Jones luck in his upcoming title fight against Ciryl Gane.

Jones is one of the UFC’s most decorated fighters. 27-1 in his career, he currently holds the heavyweight division belt after forcing a first-round submission out of Gane. Before that, he spent nine years defending the light heavyweight title and forging a career as one of the faces of the promotion.

With the fight set to be a cage match, aka MMA, Jones’ training could be invaluable to shoring up the victory for Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is already reportedly proficient in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but Jones’ tutelage could make him unstoppable. Zuckerberg is yet to publicly respond to the offer.

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Jones Could Be Training Zuck And Fighting Fury

Musk v Zuckerberg is not the only headline fight that Jones could find himself involved in. According to reports, the UFC recently submitted a fight offer that would see him take on boxing champion Tyson Fury. The idea of a Fury v Jones fight came about after Joe Rogan suggested that Jones would dominate in a fight between the two juggernauts.

Fury responded with an expletive-laden video, calling out both Rogan and Jones. Furthermore, Fury is currently struggling to find people willing to fight him. WBC president Mauricio Sulaimán recently said that Fury was a “victim of his own success” and “He’s that good, people don’t want to fight him.”

Jones was quick to respond to Fury’s comments on Twitter. “Hey Tyson, it seem like Joe may have struck a nerve. I’ll admit there’s no one touching you in that ring right now, but let’s not let that confuse you with what would happen if you stepped foot in my cage. If you ever want to put some of those questions you got going on to rest, give Dana a call. I’ll help you out.”

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Andrew Tate Offers To Train Elon Musk For Mark Zuckerberg Fight

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In one of the more bizarre stories of the week, Elon Musk challenged tech rival Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight. Zuckerberg promptly accepted, sparking the very real idea that the two tech giants could soon be squaring off.

Furthermore, according to the UFC’s Dana White, the two men are “dead serious” about fighting. It’s unclear if White is angling to get the UFC involved in the bout. Regardless, White believes the fight could become the most profitable bout ever staged.

There are some issues, however. According to their self-professed weights, Musk sits two to three weight classes higher, per standard MMA class definitions. Either Musk would need to cut or Zuckerberg bulk to make the fight manageable. Despite this, bookmakers currently back Zuckerberg. Per Oddspedia, Zuckerberg holds odds of -333 (Bet $3.33 to win $1.00) while Musk has odds of +220 (win $2.20 per $1.00 bet). Now another controversial figure has entered the story – Andrew Tate.

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Tate Offers To Coach Musk

Andrew Tate initially rose to fame as a kickboxer, holding a 73-9 record in his professional career. However, Tate is better known as a male lifestyle influencer. Tate’s courses teach men how to make money by shunning women and compassion as evil distractions.

Additionally, Tate is a very vocal anti-vaxxer. This belief is what led him to enter the Musk v Zuck discussions. Tate was banned from all META-owned platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) for spreading COVID misinformation. He has apparently taken this personally, as he has cited it as the primary reason why Tahe wishes to train Musk for the fight against Zuckerberg.

However, this may be somewhat difficult to do, given recent developments in Tate’s legal troubles. Romanian officials have officially charged Tate, along with his brother, with rape and human trafficking. Tate has been held on house arrest for several months while prosecutors build a case against him.

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While Elon Musk rarely fails to make the news, it’s just not just fight offers that have earned him the spotlight in recent months. Stories relating to his many tech companies have also dominated the news in 2023, rarely for positive reasons.

On April 20, the very public launch of SpaceX’s “Starship” went horribly wrong as engineers were forced to terminate the 77-minute mission after just 4 minutes. The mission, which was meant to demonstrate Starship’s ability to reach a low-Earth orbit, failed due to catastrophic engine failures.

More recently, amid the Titan submersible disaster, people have turned their attention to Musk’s wireless communication service, Starlink. Initial reports, based on OceanGate’s own social media, suggested that the submersible’s communications were powered by Starlink. This has since been debunked. However, it led a number of people to speculate as to whether Musk’s fight offer was a way to divert attention away from this theory.

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Dana White Hypes Up Cage Fight Between Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg

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Celebrity boxing matches have become all the rage in recent years However, the most recently announced fight is perhaps the most bizarre yet. Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight. Perhaps more bizarrely still, Zuckerberg agreed to the bout.

There is no love lost between the two tech giants. Zuckerberg, who already owns Facebook, is reportedly working on a Twitter competitor called Threads. The fight rhetoric came about as a result of a tweet spree from Musk. To many people’s surprise, Zuckerberg accepted the challenge, writing “Send Me Address” on his Instagram story.

While some have claimed that the move is way for Musk to divert headlines away from the connection between Starlink and the Titan submersible disaster, both men are “dead serious” about the fight according to the UFC’s Dana White. In fact, White appears to be all-in on the idea of the two duking it out in the cage.

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White Speaks To Monetary Opportunity Of Musk-Zuckerberg Fight

On the sincerity of the fight, White, as mentioned, assured TMZ that both men were “dead serious” about taking part. Furthermore, White gushed about the monetary potential of a Musk v Zuck bout. “The biggest fight of all time was Floyd and Conor, I just think it triples that — it triples what that did, there’s no limit on what that thing can make.”

The potential for a record-breaking fight is certainly there, if not for the reasons White thinks. It’s likely that most viewers would be tuning in purely for the spectacle of two unhealthy white billionaires humiliating themselves while trying to prove that they are the alpha tech dog.

Furthermore, White’s insertion into the proceedings is likely an attempt to get UFC, the premier MMA promotion around, in on the action. While the UFC is not exactly wanting for money, this spectacle could be exactly the thing the promotion needs in light of Paul v. Diaz and Crawford v. Spence Jr.

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UFC Going All In On Spectacle Fights

Musk v Zuck is not the only thing marquee fight that the UFC is angling for. There are also reports that a fight offer has been formally submitted to Tyson Fury by the promotion. That “hybrid fight” bout would pit Fury, one of the all-time greatest boxers against Jon Jones, the UFC superstar.

The idea of a Fury-Jones fight came about as a result of comments made by Joe Rogan. “You want to talk about who’s the baddest man on the planet?” Rogan asked. “If Jon Jones and Tyson Fury are locked into a room, I’m pushing all of my chips on black. [Fury] doesn’t have a fucking chance in hell of making it out of that room.”

As Fury gave an expletive-laden response to Rogan, Jones also got his shots in on the heavyweight champion. “Hey Tyson, it seems like Joe may have struck a nerve,” Jones said on Twitter. “I’ll admit there’s no one touching you in that ring right now, but let’s not let that confuse you with what would happen if you stepped foot in my cage.” Furthermore, Jones issued a challenge to Fury in a follow-up tweet. “If you ever want to put some of those questions you got going on to rest, give Dana a call. I’ll help you out.”

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