{"id":120972,"date":"2023-11-04T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120972"},"modified":"2023-11-04T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:09:20","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-tears-acl-during-mma-sparring-session-ahead-of-debut-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/mark-zuckerberg-tears-acl-during-mma-sparring-session-ahead-of-debut-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL during MMA sparring session ahead of debut fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global tech genius Mark Zuckerberg&apos;s hopes of a future career in MMA have been dashed after suffering a horror injury during a sparring session.<\/p>\n<p>The man who owns Meta \u2013 which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp \u2013 tore his Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) while training for a competitive MMA fight set to take place early next year. The injury Zuckerberg has suffered takes anywhere from six to 12 months to repair, which has now seen his fight delayed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Instagram to post a photo of himself in a hospital bed with his leg heavily strapped up and being held up by a hospital gadget, he confirmed that he was looking forward to recovering. He wrote: \u201cTore my ACL sparring and just got out of surgery to replace it.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: UK would be &apos;uninhabitable nuclear wasteland&apos; when US wins World War 3, AI claims<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For more news, click here.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article31361745.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/1_zuck_1699048427_3228174645228079616_314216__1_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrateful for the doctors and team taking care of me. I was training for a competitive MMA fight early next year, but now that&apos;s delayed a bit. Still looking forward to doing it after I recover \u2013 thanks to everyone for the love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He posted the comments with four photos in total, including one showing his wife Priscilla Chan wiping his forehead while Zuckerberg lies in bed looking in pain. The post was liked by more than 600k people in less than 24 hours, and was swarmed with comments offering \u201clove and support\u201d \u2013 as well as thousands of spam comments about a \u201cfree Palestine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article31361747.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_zuck_1699048427_3228174645270106966_314216.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article31071152.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/0_MAINSOCIAL.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> Mark Zuckerberg takes &apos;bulking season to new levels&apos; with 6,000 McDonald&apos;s Happy Meals<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MMA legend Jon \u201cBones\u201d Jones commented: \u201cWe got this\u201d. And content creator Nina Drama, who has more than 1.6million followers on Instagram added: \u201cSo sorry to hear that Mark! Wishing you a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg hasn&apos;t given any update on his recovery time, but experts claim that the injury \u2013 normally suffered by professional footballers \u2013 could take a full year to recover from. He did not explain how exactly the injury occurred, either, or confirm who his opponent for the now-cancelled bout was supposed to be against.<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-97350715-7fff-7089-15fe-639828e462e9\"><b><i>To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters <\/i><\/b><b><i><u>here<\/u><\/i><\/b><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/mark-zuckerberg-tears-acl-during-31361711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global tech genius Mark Zuckerberg&apos;s hopes of a future career in MMA have been dashed after suffering a horror injury during a sparring session. 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