Conor McGregor hails ‘f****** awesome’ Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook owner shows off MMA skills in training with UFC star
CONOR McGREGOR hailed “f****** awesome” Mark Zuckerberg as the Facebook owner showed off MMA skills in training.
The social media mogul uploaded a video on his Instagram sparring with UFC newcomer Khai Wu.
And it won the praise of perhaps the most famous UFC star of all time.
McGregor, 34, commented: “Yo!!! F****** awesome Mark!”
Zuckerberg, who created Facebook in 2004 and now has a net worth of £50.9BILLION, started training in MMA amid the coronavirus pandemic.
He said on Joe Rogan’s podcast: “I really like watching UFC for example, but I also like doing the sport.
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“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.”
Zuckerberg revealed choosing fencing over wrestling at school is among his greatest regrets after falling in love with MMA.
He said: “The question isn’t how did I get into it, it’s how did I not know about it til right now?
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“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.”