“Jiu-Jitsu is the best sport” – Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg surprises Joe Rogan with his love for mixed martial arts
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UFC commentator Joe Rogan was just as surprised as anyone else in the world when he got to know that the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg was an MMA head.
The Facebook founder is no ordinary fan of the sport, he not only enjoyed watching the sport but also is an ardent practitioner of it. Mark Zuckerberg is the last person of all the top celebrities that one might have expected to say he loved violence just like any other fight fan. However, the billionaire does not look at it as just violence.
Joe Rogan, UFC commentator, and MMA connoisseur himself recently had the founder of the popular social media corporation on his podcast. Though Rogan mainly focused on grilling Zuckerberg on questions related to the media corporations and the influence of Facebook on the million lives, the two shared a common love for mixed martial arts.
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The Facebook founder has been into physical well-being for a long time he says. Mark was a huge fan of running, then switched to surfing, and finally felt at home with mixed martial arts. “It really is the best sport,” said Mark on mixed martial arts and practicing jiu-jitsu.
“The question isn’t how did I get into it, it is how did I not know about it until just now. From the very first five-minute session I did, I was like, ‘where has this been my whole life?'” said Mark talking to Rogan on the podcast.
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Zuckerberg has not only become an instant fan of training Jiu-Jitsu but the billionaire has peer-pressured his friends into taking up lessons with which he has had a “100% success rate” according to Mark himself. Joe was really impressed with Mark’s interest in the sport.
Zuckerberg has also been an ardent fan of UFC and follows almost all the top personalities from UFC on his social media. The businessman follows fights and got praise from top MMA personalities after his training video got out.
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Prateek Athanur
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