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Could We See Elon Musk v Mark Zuckerberg At ADCC 2024? Gordon Ryan Says Yes

Could We See Elon Musk v Mark Zuckerberg At ADCC 2024? Gordon Ryan Says Yes

The ADCC Superfight Champion said an ADCC match may be in the works between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and gave his pick for a potential showdown

Jul 18, 2023 by Joe Gilpin
Could We See Elon Musk v Mark Zuckerberg At ADCC 2024? Gordon Ryan Says Yes

During his recent appearance on Bruce Buffer and TJ DeSantis's podcast 'It's Time', ADCC Superfight Champion Gordon "The King" Ryan gave his thoughts on a potential grappling match between billionaire tech CEO's Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The two have been linked to a possible showdown since Zuckerberg began competing in local Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournaments and Elon began posting about a proposed match and training with several well-known grapplers. Gordon and his professor John Danaher have been linked to the bout since a photo of them training with Georges St. Pierre and Lex Friedman.

Elon actually was training with John and the guys here, because Georges came and he was training with Elon. Zuckerberg actually messaged me, he wants me go out to California sometime and train with him. I didn't actually get to train with Elon or Zuckerberg yet but John trained with Elon and I've seen Zuckerberg train and compete. Elon's a lot bigger but he's also in his fifties and Zuckerberg is in his thirties and trains pretty religiously from what I hear, and actually competes.

Gordon did drop that the match has drawn interest from ADCC head organizer Mo Jassim, and may potentially be made as a superfight for ADCC 2024.

So if they were to compete in jiu-jitsu right now, which Zuckerberg, I talked to him, and he's a hundred percent in to fight Elon at ADCC for a super fight next year, and Mo will actually make that happen if they both want to do it.

Gordon did ultimately give his pick for a match, if it were to happen, favoring the more experienced Zuckerberg over the larger Musk.

If they competed in jiu-jitsu right now, I think Zuck would win pretty easily. I don't think Elon trains very much, he trained judo apparently a long time ago, but the muscle memory probably isn't there and Zuckerberg is training every day, hard, and he's serious about it. I sent him some of my instructionals to watch, he is studying tape and taking it seriously. If they competed right now, I think Elon would get pretty tired pretty fast and Zuck would submit him. If he started training, who knows, since he is a lot bigger."

Is a future match between the two billionaires inevitable? Will we be able to see this match take place at one of the biggest tournaments of all-time?