Israel Adesanya has mocked Mark Zuckerbag’s rival Elon Musk.
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‘South Africans to deal with’: Izzy shades Elon Musk [photos]
Another enemy? Elon Musk has been shaded by MMA fighter Israel Adesanya after he trained with the former’s rival Mark Zuckerberg this week.
Israel Adesanya has mocked Mark Zuckerbag’s rival Elon Musk.
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@stylebender/ JOEL SAGET, AFP
With his questionable business practises, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has made plenty of enemies. Now, the Twitter CEO has indirectly found an enemy in MMA fighter Israel Adesanya, who has been spotted training with his nemesis Mark Zuckerberg.
The UFC middleweight champion – nicknamed Izzy – has taken cheap shots at Elon over Twitter. Izzy is set to fight fellow South African Dricus du Plessis, while Elon has propositioned Mark for a boxing match.
IZZY THROWS SHADE AT ELON MUSK
This week, Israel Adesanya posted pics of his training with Facebook and Instagram founder Mark Zuckerberg and fellow UFC fighter Alex Volanovski.
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According to TMZ, Mark reportedly flew Izzy and Alex to his Californian home after their UFC290 appearance last weekend.
Izzy followed up the post with another of him reportedly training Mark in the ring.
“We both have South Africans to deal with,” he captioned the pics.
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It’s no secret that Elon Musk and Mark have a hot rivalry over their social media businesses, Twitter and Facebook. This was intensified with Mark’s new popular platform, Threads.
The duo are set to face off in the ring on a date which has yet to be announced. Meanwhile, Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya will go head-to-head on 10 September in Sydney, Australia.
Both Elon and Dricus hail from Pretoria, South Africa.
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MORE CHEAP SHOTS AT DRICUS DU PLESSIS
Meanwhile, Izzy has continued to post more cheap-shot comments at his opponent Dricus du Plessis.
This includes comments from an MMA fan who claimed he would make “biltong” out of the SA star. Izzy also mocked Dricus’s affection with his team following his UFC 290 match win over Robert Whittaker.
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Dricus has yet to respond to the trash talk.
