{"id":251195,"date":"2025-10-31T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251195\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:23:08","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-spars-takes-down-alex-pereira-in-training-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251195\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg spars, takes down Alex Pereira in training session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s list of UFC fighters he&#8217;s trained with continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The latest addition is UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, per a video he posted on social media Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The training session took place at Cruz Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Nutley, N.J.. The gym is owned by Pereira&#8217;s longtime coach, Plinio Cruz. It&#8217;s unclear when exactly it transpired, though Pereira indicated it was after his <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 320;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 320<\/a> fight vs. Magomed Ankalaev on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The UFC champ and the Meta CEO sparred and grappled with Zuckeberg even getting a &#8220;takedown&#8221; on Pereira, despite the vast size differential.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, 41, has emerged as one of mixed martial arts&#8217; most high-profile superfans since he began jiu-jitsu training over the COVID-19 pandemic. Zuckeberg has worked with UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, and newly-crowned UFC women&#8217;s strawweight champion Mackenzie Dern, among others. Zuckerberg has attended multiple events in person, and has partnered with the UFC, making Meta the official technology partner.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/30\/ufc-meta-mark-zuckerberg-vs-alex-pereira\/86993774007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mark Zuckerberg spars, takes down Alex Pereira in training session;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mark Zuckerberg spars, takes down Alex Pereira in training session<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s list of UFC fighters he&#8217;s trained with continues to grow. The latest addition is UFC light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11038,49,48,117302,641,2746,638,82,9210,640],"class_list":["post-251195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alex-pereira","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cruz-mixed-martial-arts-academy","tag-fighting","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-training","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251195","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=251195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}