{"id":351759,"date":"2025-12-17T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:56:07","slug":"video-mark-zuckerberg-spars-3-rounds-with-merab-dvalishvili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/351759\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Mark Zuckerberg spars 3 rounds with Merab Dvalishvili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Merab Dvalishvili is bringing in the big guns to help him on his journey back to the bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this month, Dvalishvili lost the UFC bantamweight belt in his rematch with Petr Yan at UFC 323. Dvalishvili and Yan are now 1-1, and a rubber match is expected between the two sometime next year; and Dvalishvili is already back to training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Wednesday, Dvalishvili released footage of him doing a sparring session with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with Aljamain Sterling also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of the richest men in the world, Zuckerberg has fallen in love with MMA in recent years, and at one point, there was even talk of him fighting Elon Musk in the UFC. While Zuckerberg may not exactly be \u201cUFC-ready\u201d right now, he gives a decent account of himself over three rounds of sparring, even scoring a takedown on the former champion, though Dvalishvili is obviously not trying too hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the sparring session below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merab Dvalishvili is bringing in the big guns to help him on his journey back to the bantamweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-351759","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351759","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=351759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}