The Republican senator says Mark Zuckerberg challenged him to a cage fight

Mark Zuckerberg is itching for a fight. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, revealed which the Facebook founder invited him to share multiple times while talking to human cringe factory Benny Johnson during an appearance on The Benny Show.

“Mark actually contacted me, texted me a couple of times. The guy’s got into jujitsu really heavy, he wants me to get down and break with him,” Mullin said. “He wants to train, he really wants to get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d love for you to come and spar with me sometime.’ I thought it would be great to go down there and do that.”

Mullin is no stranger to fights, it’s just that he tends to be the one issuing the challenge. He made headlines in 2023 when he challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, for struggle in the floor of the Congress about some critical tweets that O’Brien had made about him. The whole thing turned into a screaming match with lots of posturing and no punches, which seems to be the speed Mullin is most comfortable operating these days.

There is some struggle in Mullin’s past – he recorded a 3-0 record in three matches in the Xtreme Fighting League, a local fighting circuit in Oklahoma. But he hasn’t been in the octagon for an official match since 2007.

Zuck, meanwhile, has been building his fighting resume for a couple of years. He reported took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu around 2022, receiving professional training from UFC stars. The technology executive made a net medal in the first tournament that he appeared, and then famous challenged to a cage match by Elon Musk. Unfortunately, this never came to fruition because as soon as Zuck told Musk to drop a pin and spank, the Twitter owner posted a series of the saddest cop-outs ever to hit the internet, including have his mother step in for him.

While Zuckerberg tore his ACL sparring Shortly after the online kerfuffle, he is apparently recovered and ready to return to the ring. He is so all-in on his MMA era that he has added UFC boss Dana White The Facebook board.

So sure, why not challenge a senator with a history in the ring to throw? If nothing else, it signals Zuck’s full turn to the right. She has been friends with Trump for months and, according to Mullin, even met with the president-elect before announcing that Facebook would end fact-checking — a feature that Trump notoriously lacks. raided against.

If Zuckerberg shows up at the next Keynote Meta with a black eye, we’ll know how his match with Mullin turned out, but at least he can claim victory on Facebook and no one can verify it.