Overview
- Mark Zuckerberg posted a video titled “Round 2” showing him sparring with former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili on a padded barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe on Sunday, Aug. 9.
- The clip shows real exchanges of punches, kicks and takedowns, moments where Dvalishvili hoists and tosses Zuckerberg into the water, and on-camera details such as a referee, multiple cameras and nearby spectators.
- This was the pair’s second filmed session after an 11-minute gym spar on Dec. 17, 2025 that was overseen by Aljamain Sterling, confirming the encounters are training exchanges rather than sanctioned fights.
- The video went viral and sparked mixed reactions online, with some praising Zuckerberg’s progress and others accusing Dvalishvili of taking it easy or ‘selling out’ for the produced footage.
- The spar adds to a running pattern of the Meta CEO training publicly with elite fighters and has practical implications for safety and optics, given Zuckerberg’s past ACL injury and concurrent coverage of his yacht and public statements on AI.