Mark Zuckerberg‘s placing his martial arts coaching to good use — the Fb founder gained gold and silver medals at an area jiu-jitsu tourney in Northern California … his first time competing!

38-year-old Zuckerberg kicked ass at a tourney on Saturday in Redwood Metropolis, CA — about 10 miles from Palo Alto — the place he put his new abilities on show, competing in each Gi (jacket) and no Gi.

It is tremendous spectacular for a man who has solely been coaching for a brief period of time. In actual fact, Zuckerberg instructed Joe Rogan final yr that he started practising martial arts in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Regardless of Mark successful most of his matches, the day wasn’t with out controversy. Throughout one combat, Zuckerberg turned visibly upset with a ref. It is unclear why Zuck was upset, however after a brief, however quite heated convo with the official and his opponent, everybody shook fingers.

However, all in all … Zuck was superior.

And, a number of the largest stars in MMA congratulated him on the medals … with guys like Israel Adesanya, Brandon Moreno, and Alex Volkanovski heaping reward on the billionaire.

“Wow congrats 👏👏,” Moreno, the UFC flyweight champ wrote.

Volk, the UFC featherweight champ commented … “Legend! Love the shorts mate”

“When the #1 pound-for-pound fighter on the planet provides you shorts, you put on them” … Zuckerberg responded to Alex.