{"id":119652,"date":"2025-09-04T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119652\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:47:06","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-encouraged-execs-to-do-mma-training-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119652\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg encouraged execs to do MMA training with him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Zuckerberg is so dedicated to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/01\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-pro-mma-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mixed martial arts (MMA) training<\/a> that he invited his senior executives to join him for workout sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This amusing revelation comes from Nick Clegg\u2019s forthcoming book. Meta\u2019s former president of global affairs shares the story in what Fast Company unfavorably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91397852\/nick-clegg-book-meta-revelations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">describes<\/a> as a book with \u201cthin prose,\u201d save for some \u201csurprising anecdotes,\u201d such as this tale of Clegg sparring with his deputy Joel Kaplan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Clegg\u2019s anecdote, Zuckerberg gathered some of Meta\u2019s most senior executives to practice MMA with him at a management offsite. Kaplan, who has since taken over Clegg\u2019s role after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgrw785585wo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">stepped down<\/a> earlier this year, apparently executed a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_%28grappling%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mount<\/a> that Clegg described as \u201ctoo close for comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judging by some brief research into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/2LJnu1lo-y4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MMA mounts<\/a>, this does seem to be an intimate maneuver for a corporate setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What ever happened to good old-fashioned golfing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg is so dedicated to his mixed martial arts (MMA) training that he invited his senior executives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,20132,2746,638,66631,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-119652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-in-brief","12":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-nick-clegg","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}