Mark Zuckerberg is eager to fight. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, revealed that the founder of Facebook invited him to play several times while talking to the people factory Benny Johnson when he appeared on The Benny Show.
“Mark has reached out to me, texted me a few times. “The guy got into heavy jujitsu, he wants me to go down and roll with him,” said Mullin. “He wants to train, he actually wants to get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d like you to come down and have fun sometime.’ I think it would be great to go down there and do that.”
Mullin isn’t known for fights, it’s just that he’s often the one who issues the challenge. He also made headlines in 2023 when he challenged Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to a floor fight in Congress over O’Brien’s critical tweets about him. The whole thing turned into a shouting match with lots of submissions and no real fisticuffs, which seems to be about the speed Mullin is most comfortable operating these days.
There is some fighting in Mullin’s past—he posted a 3-0 record in three appearances for the Xtreme Fighting League, a local fight circuit in Oklahoma. But he hasn’t been in the octagon in an official match since 2007.
Zuck, on the other hand, has been rebuilding his fight for several years. He reportedly took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu sometime around 2022, receiving professional training from UFC stars. The tech executive won a medal in his first appearance, then was challenged to a cage match by Elon Musk. Sadly, that didn’t come to fruition because as soon as Zuck told Musk to drop the pin and kneel, the Twitter owner unleashed a series of the saddest self-policing on the internet, including his own mother stepping in.
While Zuckerberg tore his ACL shortly after the Internet, he has recovered and is ready to return to the ring. He’s so focused on his MMA career that he added UFC head Dana White to his Facebook board.
So, why not challenge a senator with a history in the ring to the floor? If nothing else, it shows Zuck’s full right-wing turn. He has had a relationship with Trump for months and, according to Mullin, even met with the President-elect before announcing that Facebook would end fact-checking — a feature Trump is notorious for.
If Zuckerberg shows up in the next Meta post with a black eye, we’ll know how successful his game with Mullin was, but at least he can know it’s successful on Facebook and no one can look at him.
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