The Republican senator says Mark Zuckerberg challenged him to a cage fight

Mark Zuckerberg is itching to fight. Markwayne Mullen, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, open That the Facebook founder called him out on sparring multiple times while speaking to human bending factory Benny Johnson during an appearance on The Benny Show.

“Mark has actually reached out to me, texted me a few times. The guy’s gotten really into jiu-jitsu, and he wants me to come out there and roll with him,” Mullen said. “He wants to train, he really wants to get into Cage and fight. “I’d like you to come down and fight with me sometime,” he said. I think it would be great to go out there and do that.

Mullen is no stranger to fighting, it’s just that he tends to be the one issuing the challenge. He made headlines in 2023 when he challenged Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Truckers, to say: Fighting on the floor of Congress Due to some critical tweets O’Brien wrote about him. The whole thing turned into a shouting match with a wide range of stances and no actual fighting, which seems to come down to how quickly Mullen is more comfortable these days.

There’s some fighting in Mullen’s past – he scored an A.J Record 3-0 In three matches in the Xtreme Fighting League, a local fighting circuit in Oklahoma. But he hasn’t been in the octagon for an official bout since 2007.

Meanwhile, Zuk has been building his fighting resume for two years. he It is said He picked up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu sometime around 2022, receiving professional training from UFC stars. Technical Director A medal In the first tournament he appeared in, he then won it famously He was challenged to a cage match by Elon Musk. Unfortunately, that never came to fruition because as soon as Zack told Musk to put down a pin and surrender, the Twitter owner issued a series of the worst walkouts ever committed on the internet, including For his mother to intervene for him.

While Zuckerberg Sajal tore his ACL Shortly after the online brawl, he appears to have recovered and is ready to return to the ring. He was so involved in the mixed martial arts (MMA) era that he added UFC president Dana White to it Facebook board.

Sure, why not challenge a senator with a history in the ring to take him down? If nothing else, it signals Zuck’s complete shift to the right. He’s been friends with Trump for months and, according to Mullen, even met with the president-elect before announcing that Facebook would get rid of fact-checking — a feature Trump has become known for. Objected against.

If Zuckerberg shows up at the next Meta keynote with a black eye, we’ll know how his match with Mullen ended, but at least he can claim victory on Facebook and no one can verify his authenticity.