UFC fighter rips Mark Zuckerberg amid Meta CEO's potential fight against Elon Musk

UFC fighter Sean Strickland weighed into the potential bout between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday and expressed his support for the Tesla and Twitter CEO.

Strickland appeared to have a distaste for the Facebook social media platform and ripped Zuckerberg in a tweet.

"Man f--- Mark Zuckerberg.. Dirty communist.... No one wants your goggles and your disinformation censorship but.... Facebook market gets a pass...." he tweeted. "@elonmusk come to Vegas. We will put in work!"

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Strickland, a middleweight competitor, is 26-5 overall. He is set to square off against Abus Magomedov in July. He is coming off a decision victory over Nassourdine Imavov back in January. He is currently No. 7 in the UFC Middleweight rankings as Israel Adesanya reigns over the division.

The idea of a fight between Zuckerberg and Musk popped up when he issued a challenge to fight in a cage match with the Meta CEO.

"Send Me Location," Zuckerberg said on Instagram, providing a screenshot of Musk’s original challenge. In the initial tweet, Musk said: "I’m up for a cage match if he is lol."

UFC president Dana White told TMZ Sports he spoke to both multibillionaires Wednesday night and said that "both guys are absolutely dead serious about this."

When asked why White felt that way, he said that "they both said, 'Yeah, we'll do it.' They both want to do it."

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White said Zuckerberg reached out first, asking if Musk was serious, so White contracted Musk, who then said he was.

If this bout were to happen, White says the amount of money it could raise would be unprecedented.

"This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world. Bigger than anything that's ever been done. It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. You don't have to be a fighting fan to be interested in this fight. Everybody would want to see it."

"The biggest fight of all time was Floyd Mayweather and Conor [McGregor], I just think it triples that. I think it triples what that did. There's no limit on what that thing can make. … Everybody would watch it, everybody would want to see it."

Zuckerberg practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), while Musk has done martial arts, BJJ and was in "plenty of fights growing up in South Africa," says White.

Maye Musk, Elon’s mother, jokingly wrote on Twitter she "canceled" the fight.

"Actually, I canceled the fight. I haven’t told them yet. But I will continue to say the fight is canceled, just in case," she wrote.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

Oklahoma death row inmate rejects chance for clemency, takes parting shot at Republican governor

An Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of raping and killing a University of Oklahoma dance student in 1996 plans to proceed with his death sentence, rejecting his chance for a clemency hearing. 

Anthony Sanchez, 44, told the Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday that he does not suspect Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, would spare his life.

"I’ve sat in my cell, and I’ve watched inmate after inmate after inmate get clemency and get denied clemency," Sanchez said. "Either way, it doesn’t go well for the inmates."

Sanchez cited the recent cases of Bigler Stouffer and James Coddington, both of whom were executed after a five-member Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency in a 3-2 vote. It was later ultimately rejected by Stitt. 

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"They went out there and poured their hearts out, man," Sanchez told AP. "Why would I want to be a part of anything like that, if you’re going to sit there and get these guys’ hopes up?"

"Why wouldn’t I try to prove my innocence through the courts," he added.

In 2021, the Republican governor granted clemency to Julius Jones, commuting his death sentence to life in prison without parole.

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In April, the Oklahoma Court of Criminals rejected Sanchez's plea of innocence. 

Sanchez has maintained that his father, Thomas Sanchez, was 21-year-old Juli Busken's actual killer. 

Previously, Thomas' former girlfriend alleged that he confessed to killing the college student prior to his death by suicide. The court ruled that the allegations were hearsay and not enough to overcome "compelling evidence" of Anthony Sanchez’s guilt.

Busken's death went unsolved for years until DNA recovered from her clothes linked Anthony Sanchez to the crime. He was convicted of rape and murder — and sentenced to die in 2006.

She was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from her apartment complex in Norman, Oklahoma. Her body was found that evening in southeast Oklahoma City. She had been raped and shot in the head. 

Since Sanchez plans to reject a chance at clemency, he is expected to be killed by lethal injection on September 21, 2023. 

Governor Stitt's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.