Mark Zuckerberg tears his ACL while MMA sparring as the Facebook chief undergoes surgery… days after Elon Musk reignited super-fight talk with ‘anytime, anywhere, any place’ jibe
- Zuckerberg said he was training for a competitive MMA fight in early 2024
- It pushes any possible fight between him and Elon Musk even further
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Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was forced to undergo surgery after tearing his ACL while training mixed martial arts.
Zuckerberg said he would have an MMA fight early next year, but those plans will likely have to be adjusted.
He shared a number of photos from his hospital bed on Friday afternoon – with the announcement of his illness detailed in the caption.
‘I tore my cruciate ligament during sparring and have just come out of the operating room to have it replaced. Grateful for the doctors and the team that cares for me,” Zuckerberg, 39, wrote on Instagram.
‘I was training for a competitive MMA fight early next year, but that has now been delayed a bit.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he tore his ACL while training for an upcoming MMA fight
Zuckerberg went under the knife and began the months-long recovery process
It also pushes off any potential fight between Zuckerberg and fellow billionaire Elon Musk
“I’m still looking forward to doing it after I recover. Thank you everyone for the love and support.”
It is not clear exactly who Zuckerberg would face early next year, nor was it publicly announced that a fight was planned.
He has trained with the likes of Henry Cejudo and has become friends with top MMA fighters Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski.
Zuckerberg had publicly feuded with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and challenged his fellow tech billionaire to a fight, but nothing came of it.
Both billionaires blamed each other for the fact that a fight never broke out, but Musk went on Joe Rogan’s podcast earlier this week and said he would fight Zuckerberg “anytime, anywhere, anytime.”