Elon Musk accepts incredible offer from UFC legend Georges St Pierre for Mark Zuckerberg fight

Elon Musk has accepted a sensational offer from UFC legend Georges St Pierre ahead of his blockbuster fight against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

St Pierre reached out to Musk on June 24, saying: ‘I’m a huge fan of yours and it would be an absolute honor to help you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg.’

The 51-year-old Musk has now finally replied three days later, saying: ‘Ok, let’s do it’ and following up with two fire emojis.

It’s an offer Musk would have been a fool to turn down – St Pierre is a former welterweight and middleweight UFC champion, one of the finest MMA fighters to enter the octagon.

It also marks another angle of UFC’s involvement in the fight, with its chief Dana White jumping straight onto the bandwagon to help with promoting it.

Elon Musk has accepted an offer from Georges St Pierre to train him for Mark Zuckerberg 

White believes it could be the most lucrative fight of all time, even though at present no firm official details of the place and time have been announced.

‘Talked with Mark and Elon… both guys are absolutely dead serious about this,’ White said to TMZ last week, before claiming it could be the most-watched fight in history.

‘The biggest fight of all time was Floyd (Mayweather) and Conor (McGregor), I just think it triples that,’ he said. ‘It triples what that did, there’s no limit on what that thing can make.’

White suggested the fight could happen in Las Vegas and that pay-per-view would come in at $100 – $20 more than what is usually charged for his UFC events.

Musk, 51, offered up the match last week after commenting under a post about Zuckerberg’s newest suspected project, which will reportedly be called Threads and rival Twitter. 

Zuckerberg, 39, replied on his Instagram story, sharing a screenshot of Musk’s challenge, writing: ‘Send me location.’ 

Musk has trained in Kyokushin karate, taekwondo, judo and ‘Brazilian jiu-jitsu briefly’ throughout his life, he revealed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and he’s shared a photo of himself fighting a sumo wrestler in the past. 

Musk (right) challenged jiu-jitsu-trained Mark Zuckerberg to a ‘cage match’ after making a backhanded comment about Meta’s reported new development Threads

Zuckerberg replied on his Instagram story, sharing a screenshot of Musk’s challenge, writing: ‘Send me location.’ The Meta CEO recently placed a jiu-jitsu tournament in May 

And speaking of Rogan, Musk even raised the possibility of the controversial podcast host refereeing their bout, replying with flame emojis on Twitter. 

Musk, though, might not find the match to be as easy as he thinks as his Meta CEO rival recently placed in a jiu-jitsu tournament in May. 

Either way, UFC boss White spies an opportunity and is eager to play his part and make it happen.