Featured Image Credit: @yilongma.meta/Instagram.
Topics: Boxing
Jayden Collins
Elon Musk’s doppelgänger is amping up his boxing training just in case he needs to replace the X owner ahead of the fight with Mark Zuckerberg.
As if this whole ordeal couldn’t get any weirder, right?
The two tech billionaires have been beefing online, with a clear social media honcho rivalry building.
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And as you do nowadays, Musk decided to challenge Zuckerberg to cage fight back in June.
Zuckerberg replied to the challenge: “Send me the location.”
The Tesla owner may have bit off a bit more than he can chew, however, with photos emerging of the Meta owner looking ripped alongside Alex Volkanovski and Israel Adesanya.
And what would you know… Zuckerberg actually trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
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So, just in case Musk decided to pull out of the fight, which to be honest, who could blame him, a Chinese TikToker who bears a resemblance to Musk has been training… just in case.
Yilong Ma has long been building a following online due to his uncanny looks that looks eerily similar to that of Musk.
Wearing doge shorts and a pair of boxing gloves, Ma pretends to box Musk's tech billionaire rival in a series of videos, while shouting 'come on, come on, come on, come on' and 'KO!'
In the videos, Ma stands in front of a Tesla and pretends to box a man who is wearing a cardboard box over his head with a photo of Zuckerberg taped to it, who he has dubbed... Zuckerbox.
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Ah, the internet is a weird and wonderful place.
In one of the videos, Ma's parody of Musk says he will give away a Tesla if he beats Zuckerberg. In another one of the videos, the man with the box on his head writes an X on Ma's chest in permanent marker before Ma pretends to box him.
Ma first went viral in December 2021 in a video uploaded to Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, which was then shared on Facebook.
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After noting his uncanny resemblance to the X CEO, his followers began calling him 'Yi Long Musk'.
His training might not be utilised after all though, with Elon seemingly pushing forward with the fight.
He tweeted last week: “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X. All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”
This could actually be happening.