Within the battle, Volkanovski misplaced his title to Georgian fighter Ilia Topuria, however a lot on-line dialogue targeted not on the bout, however on a 10-second clip of Zuckerberg earlier than the battle.
Donning a tracksuit, the world’s fourth-richest individual nodded his head and stored providing his hand as one cornerman handed objects to a different.
Footage of Zuckerberg’s ignored makes an attempt to lend a serving to hand, maybe unsurprisingly, circulated quickly on X.
Quickly the Meta CEO’s pre-fight awkwardness was the topic of an entire lot of memes, gently poking enjoyable at one thing all of us expertise now and again: being in a scenario the place you are probably not absolutely what to do.
Customers on X in contrast Zuckerberg to somebody “making an attempt to be collaborative with the cashier whereas they ring up my groceries,” and “going to somebody’s home and asking if I can assist with something earlier than dinner.“
Different comparisons included evaluating him to Cousin Greg from HBO’s “Succession,” and to a finance employee attending an AI convention.
Zuckerberg’s look appeared to convey pleasure to some fighters, nevertheless, with Merab Dvalishvili, who defeated Henry Cejudo earlier within the evening, climbing onto the highest of the Octagon to offer the watching Zuck a high-five.
Dvalishvili even joked that Zuckerberg’s presence distracted him, saying in his post-fight press convention, per MMA Combating: “I bought too excited. I used to be Mark Zuckerberg and I had an excessive amount of enjoyable. Perhaps I ought to focus to complete.”
Saturday’s UFC journey shouldn’t be the primary time Meta’s CEO has discovered himself on the receiving finish of the meme therapy.
However no less than for Zuckerberg, this one is joking about one thing that is occurred to most individuals, slightly than evaluating him to a robotic.
