UFC legend Georges St-Pierre says he hopes the proposed cage match between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t end up happening, but if it does, the Quebec-born fighter is putting his money on the Twitter owner.
“We trained together and what I can say is that he is much stronger than the average man and he is very tough. He has a judo background,” said St-Pierre Thursday about Musk after announcing his return to combat. “I’m with Elon.”
In an interview with TSN (watch the video below), the MMA icon heaped praise on Musk after meeting him following hyped-up talk of the caged fight started on social media. It all started after the threat of Zuckerberg’s Meta launching a rival app to Twitter called Threads, which finally happened this week and was reportedly the most rapidly downloaded app in a blow to the company Musk took over in October.
“We know from his history, when he’s fixed [to] his goal, he’s …