UFC Legend Georges St-Pierre to Train Elon Musk for Cage Match with Mark Zuckerberg

LAS VEGAS, NV – Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Legend and Hall-of-Famer Georges St-Pierre offered on Monday evening to train Elon Musk – an offer that the Twitter CEO immediately accepted – before his potential cage match showdown with his main rival in the social media business, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 

The retired St-Pierre (26-2-0), 42, is widely regarded as the greatest fighter in mixed martial arts (MMA) history, having been a two-division champion in the UFC, winning titles in the welterweight and middleweight divisions.  

The French-Canadian fighter – often referred to by his initials “GSP” – tweeted to Musk Monday evening, offering to whip him into shape for the bout with Zuckerberg, whose company Meta owns Facebook and Instrgram and is developing a new microblogging platform to directly compete with Twitter. 

“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,” tweeted GSP. 

 “Ok, let’s do it,” Musk responded, adding two fire emojis to his tweet. 

Musk had previously claimed that he does not get much exercise on a day-to-day basis, but recently tweeted that he had some past experience training in “judo, Kyokushin (full contact) & no rules streetfighting.” 

Earlier in June, the South African tech tycoon had called out Zuckerberg to fight in a cage via a tweet; the Meta CEO responded with an Instagram post agreeing to do so, with Musk later confirming that his challenge was 100 percent serious and not a joke. 

UFC President Dana White later confirmed that he had personally spoken with the two billionaires, and said that they were “absolutely dead serious” about meeting up in a UFC cage to duke it out. 

“They both said, ‘Yeah, we’ll do it.’ They both want to do it,” White said. “This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world. Bigger than anything that’s ever been done. 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 fighting fan to be interested in this fight. Everybody would want to see it.”