Ripped Zuckerberg poses alongside UFC champions
Mark Zuckerberg has turned heads with his ripped physique in a photo posted alongside UFC champions Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanovski.
The Meta founder has clearly been hitting the gym and spending time training mixed-martial arts with the two UFC world champions as rumours of a fight with Tesla founder and Twitter owner Elon Musk get louder.
UFC middleweight champion, New Zealand's Adesanya, and Australian featherweight UFC champion Volkanovski posted a photo posing with Zuckerberg on Wednesday morning.
“No fugazi with Mark. This is serious business!" Adesanya captioned the post.
Zuckerberg replied: “It’s an honour to train with you guys!”
“You’re a beast! Always great to catch up,” Volkanovski added.
There is no indication as to when the picture was taken but Zuckerberg did appear on Adesanya’s Instagram story surfing off the back of a boat.
The Instagram post gathered over 1.6 million likes and nearly 20,000 comments with thousands amazed by Zuckerberg’s muscles.
“Bunch of goats right there! Mark’s hard work and consistency has him moving like and looking like a (flexed arm emoji) fighter!” commented MMA athlete James Terry.
English YouTuber Chunkz wrote: “Oi wtf, Zuckerberg looks incredible.”
There were hundreds of references to a potential bout between Musk and Zuckerberg in the comments with fans trying to speculate whether he was preparing for the celebrity punch-on.
Last month Musk claimed he was “up for a cage match” with Zuckerberg as the tension between the two tech moguls ramped up.
Zuckerberg’s launch of Threads – a social media app very similar to Twitter – has riled Musk because Twitter users have begun using the Meta platform following Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
The speculation about a “cage match” between the two billionaires has also ramped up since the revelations that Zuckerberg competes in jiu-jitsu martial arts tournaments.
The Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads boss won his first jiu-jitsu tournament in May after training with coach Dave Camarillo, who has trained several UFC fighters.
