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Vincent Whelan

Conor McGregor praises Mark Zuckerberg's ‘f****** awesome’ MMA skills

Don't f**k with Zuck.

That could be one of many promotional taglines available to use if Mark Zuckerberg becomes the next celebrity to try their hand at professional fighting.

The 38-year-old has developed a love for training in Mixed Martial Arts since the onset of the pandemic and has clearly developed into being pretty good at it.

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He shared the below clip partly to show off but also to wish his training partner Khai Wu well in his UFC Fight Pass debut.

Unfortunately Wu was on the wrong side of the result last night.

But Zuckerberg's skills were the main takeaway from the post with a plethora of UFC fighters including Aljamain Sterling and Alex Pereira giving him the seal of approval.

And the biggest MMA star of all was also suitably impressed as Conor McGregor commented: "Yo!!! F**king awesome Mark!"

UFC commentator Joe Rogan was also loving it. He added: "This is great! I’m so happy to see this. Training looks solid too!"

Zuckerberg actually appeared on Rogan's podcast before where he went into detail on how MMA has become an obsession for him in recent years.

He said: “I really like watching UFC for example, but I also like doing the sport.

"It’s because I have a connection to it. Since Covid, I got super into surfing and foiling, and then really into MMA.

"I know a lot of people who do it. There’s actually this really interesting connection between people who surf and do jiu-jitsu.”

He also detailed his regret at not getting into combat sports at an earlier age as he had the opportunity to pursue wrestling in high-school but chose fencing instead.

He added: “The question isn’t how did I get into it, it’s how did I not know about it til right now?

“From, like, the very first session that I did, like, five minutes in — where has this been my whole life?

"My mum made me do three varsity sports and my life took a wrong turn when I chose to do fencing competitively instead of wrestling in high school or something.

"There’s something so primal about it, I don’t know.

"Since then I’ve just introduced a bunch of my friends to it — we train together, and we like, wrestle together, and there’s a certain intensity to it that I like.”

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