Meta CEO and avid Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Mark Zuckerberg needs you to know that he undoubtedly didn’t get choked out at a contest final month. However, in case you have the video of Mark Zuckerberg getting choked out at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitors final month, please ship it to Gizmodo.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Zuckerberg, who started coaching in Brazilian jiu-jitsu throughout the pandemic, was choked out final month throughout his first, and probably final, competitors within the sport. On the occasion in Woodside, California, Zuckerberg confronted off in opposition to an unknown contender when referee, José Lucas Costa da Silva, a veteran fighter, halted the match after he heard Zuckerberg loud night breathing, an indication that he had handed out. Shortly after the New York Occasions’ piece was printed, Zuckerberg instructed the outlet that he by no means misplaced consciousness.
“That by no means occurred,” Zuckerberg wrote to the Occasions in an e mail. Zuckerberg’s coach Dave Camarillo, a preferred jiu-jitsu teacher within the Bay Space, stated the referee mistook Zuckerberg’s grunts as snores. Elana Widmann, a spokesperson for Meta doubled down on Zuckerberg’s denial to The Daily Beast, claiming “At no level throughout the competitors was Mark knocked unconscious. That by no means occurred.” Widmann additionally claims {that a} Meta worker who watched the competitors says that Costa da Silva apologized to Zuckerberg for calling the match early.
Unverified claims from a large company and its CEO apart, the large query on everybody’s thoughts is: The place’s the video of Mark Zuckerberg getting strangled? Within the age of vigilante paparazzi and social media clout, somebody needed to have been filming the match—the Daily Mail has some footage from the competitors, however not of Zuckerberg allegedly losing consciousness. We stay in a world the place cat lovers were able to track down a cat murderer over the Internet and Taylor Swift fans incessantly hunt for Easter eggs on TikTok, so somebody has to have the video of Zuckerberg flailing round and loud night breathing.
If you have the video of Mark Zuckerberg getting choked out, please ship it to tipbox@gizmodo.com
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