UFC legend Georges St-Pierre to train Elon Musk in preparation for his cage fight with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

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Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, accepted Georges St-Pierre’s offer to coach him for his impending bout with Facebook rival Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. St-Pierre is a legendary UFC fighter.

Initially, on Saturday, the 42-year-old champion tweeted Elon Musk, saying, “I’m a huge fan of yours and it would be an absolute honor to help you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg.”

Soon after midnight, Musk, who had received a similar proposal from Andrew Tate, the alleged human exploitation perpetrator, announced that he was teaming up with Team GSP.

With two fire emojis, he responded to St-Pierre, “Ok, let’s do it.”

Musk, 51, first suggested a “cage fight” with Zuckerberg after Instagram, a company owned by Meta, revealed its plans to create a social networking site dedicated to written content in order to take on Musk’s Twitter.

Conor McGregor received a trending dare from Khabib Nurmagomedov, which Zuckerberg responded to by improvising and memeing, “Send me location.”

Along with Dave Caramillo, the founder of Facebook has recently taken a keen interest in mixed martial arts (MMA) and is currently studying the sport. In addition, he won his first-ever Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) match in an amateur division.

However, Musk has the greater advantage, having previously disclosed to Joe Rogan that he has experience with judo, taekwondo, and Kyokushin martial arts, as well as having “briefly practiced Brazilian jiu-jitsu” in his early years.

He tweeted early on Tuesday stating that he “engaged in a rehearsal session” with podcaster and BJJ black belt Lex Fridman, confirming that he has officially started training.

In addition, Fridman shared a video of himself working out on the mats with Zuckerberg on Monday.

“It’s inspiring to see both Elon and Mark taking on the martial arts journey,” The MIT scientist made mention of them without equating their abilities.

But not everyone seems to be as excited, as Maye, Musk’s mother, showed when she tweeted Fridman last week, saying, “Don’t encourage this match!”

“Actually, I canceled the fight. I haven’t told them yet. But I will continue to say the fight is canceled, just in case…” the model tweeted, and her son responded with an emoji of laughter.

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