Elon Musk remains to be speaking about that sumo combat he as soon as had, and it positive feels like battling a skilled wrestler did land Musk in a world of damage.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO was reminiscing concerning the bout on X, previously Twitter, on Sunday after a consumer shared a picture of Musk’s match.
This is not the primary time Musk has introduced up his expertise dueling a sumo wrestler. In March 2022, the mercurial billionaire challenged Russian chief Vladimir Putin to “single fight” for Ukraine.
When then-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao expressed doubt at Musk’s combating prowess, Musk proceeded to share an image of his sumo match. He didn’t specify when or the place the combat befell.
Representatives for Musk did not instantly reply to requests for remark from BI despatched exterior common enterprise hours.
“Managed to throw him, however it value me smashing my c5-c6 disc & 8 years of mega again ache! Lastly fastened with c5-c6 disc fusion,” Musk wrote after he posted the picture.
That mentioned, the expertise hasn’t brought about Musk to swear off future fights.
Again in June, Musk challenged Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match amid hypothesis that Zuckerberg was planning to launch a Twitter rival. Meta would launch their text-based social media platform, Threads a month later.
“Ship Me Location,” Zuckerberg mentioned in an Instagram story when he accepted Musk’s problem.
The face-off, nonetheless, didn’t occur regardless of months of backwards and forwards between Musk and Zuckerberg. Musk, Zuckerberg mentioned, didn’t comply with an precise date for the combat with him.
However Musk hasn’t forgotten concerning the cage match simply but.
“If solely Zuckerberg had been as robust (sigh). I’ve supplied to combat him anywhere, any time, any guidelines, however all I hear is crickets,” Musk wrote on X final week in response to a satirical information story a couple of combat between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
To make sure, Musk is not the one tech titan who has demonstrated a newfound curiosity in flaunting his bodily health and masculinity.
For one, Musk’s nemesis, Zuckerberg picked up combined martial arts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to getting shredded, Zuckerberg has additionally gained medals in jiu-jitsu matches.
Likewise for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s gone from scrawny to swole.
“The apparent conclusion is that I would like a *lot* extra coaching,” Musk wrote in July after a coaching session with Canadian UFC legend Georges St-Pierre. Â
