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Is Zuckerberg Fighting at UFC Show?

The worlds of fighting and technology have been torn apart this week over two simple questions, to which there’s not yet a clear answer: Has Meta CEO and apparent jiu-jitsu enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg bought out all the seating for a Saturday UFC show that will air on ESPN, and if so, is that because he seeks to test himself in the ultimate proving ground, the UFC Octagon?AdvertisementAs ESPN reported, in an unusual move earlier this week, the UFC announced it would be closing this weekend’s fight card at the Apex, a facility it owns in Las Vegas, to the press and the public. Why would it do this? UFC boss Dana White didn’t really say, claiming that he merely wanted to give the hard-working fight press “a night off.” On his Wednesday show, though, MMA insider Ariel Helwani said that a “very good source, very close to the event” had told him it had “something to do with Mark Zuckerberg,” and speculated that it might be Zuckerberg renting out the event so that he and his friends could watch, or possibly doing some sort of metaverse thing. And on that same day, UFC strawweight Mackenzie Dern—who would know, as she’s set to headline the card—stated as fact during a press conference that Zuckerberg would be there and had “rented out the whole event.”“I’m excited, and that just makes me more driven to put on a good show,” she said, “for Mark and whoever’s gonna be there.”Later in the day, White issued an oddly specific denial:White is a fight promoter who says all sorts of things, some of them true and some of them …

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