Mark Zuckerberg wants to fight back. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Revelation that the Facebook founder invited him to spar several times while talking to human cringe factory Benny Johnson during an appearance on The Benny Show.

“Mark actually contacted me, he texted me twice. The jujitsu guy was so heavy, he wanted me to get down there and roll with him,” Mullin said. “He wanted to train, he wanted to get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d love for you to come down and fight me sometime.’ I think it’s good to go there and do that.”

Mullin is no stranger to fights, it’s just that he’s the one issuing the challenge. He made headlines in 2023 when he challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to fight on the floor of Congress of some critical tweets O’Brien made about him. The whole thing turns into a shouting match with a lot of posturing and no actual fisticuffs, which seems to be about the speed Mullin is most comfortable operating these days.

Mullin had some fights in his past—he registered a 3-0 record in three matches in the Xtreme Fighting League, a local fighting circuit in Oklahoma. But he hasn’t been in the octagon for an official match since 2007.

Zuck, on the other hand, has been building his fighting resume for several years. she IS reported took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu around 2022, getting professional training from UFC stars. The tech exec netted a decoration in the first tournament he showed, then famously got challenged to a cage match by Elon Musk. Unfortunately, that never came to fruition because when Zuck told Musk to drop a pin and buckle up, the Twitter owner unleashed a series of the saddest cop-outs ever to hit the internet, including that his mother intervened for him.

While Zuckerberg tore his ACL sparring Shortly after the online kerfuffle, he apparently recovered and was ready to return to the ring. He was so all-in on his MMA era that he added UFC head Dana White Facebook board.

So sure, why not challenge a Senator who has a history in the ring to be thrown? If nothing else, it informs Zuck’s entire right wing. He has been in touch with Trump for months and, according to Mullin, even met with the President-elect before announcing that Facebook would eliminate fact-checking—a feature that Trump has become famous for. mocked against.

If Zuckerberg shows up at Meta’s next keynote with a black eye, we’ll know how he fares with Mullin, but at least he’ll have a win at Facebook and no one can scrutinize him.