After days of hullaballoo over the internet over an epic cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta Chief on Sunday said that the Space X CEO is not serious about the competition and asserted he is now going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.
In a Threads post, Zuckerberg said he is ready for the challenge if Musk ever gets serious about a real date and official event.
“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously,” the Facebook founder wrote.
Musk on Friday said that the fight between him and the CEO of rival social media platform Meta will be held in Italy.
Taking to social media platform X, Musk said he held a conversation with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the nation’s culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano about the fight and its location.
“The fight will be managed by my and Zuck’s foundations (not UFC). Livestream will be on this platform and Meta. Everything in the camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all. I spoke to the PM of Italy and the Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location. Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy,” Elon Musk said in a series of tweets.
“And all proceeds go to veterans,” he further added.
The feud between the two tech titans began following the launch of X’s rival Threads which Musk alleges has copied a lot of its features from X. In June 2023, Elon Musk while interacting with X, then Twitter, users said he is up for a ‘cage fight’ if Mark Zuckerberg is ready. Zuckerberg responded by saying, “Send me location”.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White, who earlier proposed to facilitate the fight between both billionaires, said both of them are dead serious about the fight.
Zuckerberg, 39, is an amateur mixed martial arts fighter and trained in jiu-jitsu and was seen training with two world-class UFC fighters namely Israel Adesanya
and Alexander Volkanovski.
Musk is a self-proclaimed street fighter and was spotted training with MMA legend Georges St-Pierre, renowned jiu-jitsu and martial arts coach John Danaher and podcaster Lex Fridman.
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