Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.
The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face-off in late June. Zuckerberg is actually trained in mixed martial arts, and the CEO of Facebook's parent company Meta posted about completing his first jiu jitsu tournament earlier this year.
“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a post Sunday on the platform. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”
Musk said earlier Sunday he was training for the fight by lifting weights.
“Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work,” Musk wrote.
Whether or not Musk and Zuckerberg actually make it to the ring in Las Vegas has yet to be seen — especially as Musk often tweets about action prematurely or without following through. But even if their cage match agreement is all a joke, the banter has gained attention.
It all started when Musk, who owns X, responded to a tweet about Meta preparing to release a new Twitter rival called Threads. He took a dig about the world becoming “exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options” — but then one Twitter user jokingly warned Musk of Zuckerberg’s jiu jitsu training.
“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol,” Musk wrote.
Representatives of X, Meta and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which owns the venue where the fight might take place, didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
Musk's push to stream the video live on X comes as he aims to turn the platform into a “digital town square.” However, his much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event in May with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president struggled with technical glitches and a near half-hour delay.
Musk had said the problems were due to “straining” servers because so many people were trying to listen to the audio-only event. But even at their highest, the number of listeners listed topped out at around 420,000, far from the millions of viewers that televised presidential announcements attract.
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EFD
A match so bad it’s a shame there has to be a winner.
TokyoLiving
Couple of clowns...
Roy Sophveason
It might be just me, but I'm getting really tired of sentences starting with "Musk says".
Sven Asai
At least their heads can’t be destroyed further. lol
dagon
Musk's professed inspiration, the Scottish Socialist author Iain Banks, would be looking down from an orbiting GSV and say " Musk, you are no Special Circumstances agent. "
u_s__reamer
An extra-large toddler pen should suffice for these two clowns to duke it out.
Lord Dartmouth
Note the last paragraph. AP just couldn't resist a little slap against Musk. This is the level of mainstream 'journalism' these days.
rainyday
These guys are both idiots.
EFD
How big of a jerk does one have to be to make people root for Zuck?
Answer: Elon-level jerk.
Blacklabel
Only the left would cheer for Zuck. And just because he complied with government censorship demands that benefit the left.
Roy Sophveason
A great number of people, here and in general, do not partake in and do not subscribe to one side of the US-American left vs. right trench warfare. It is entirely possible to completely apolitically find Phony Stark to be an insufferable asshat.
Mocheake
Not on either platform and I don't particularly like them but I hope Zuckerberg gets Musk via headlock guillotine or rear naked choke. Zuckerberg is the lesser of the two clowns.
Jimizo
It’s pretty good publicity though.
The types who talk about being ‘jacked’ and call others ‘cucks’ and ‘soy boys’ would into this type of thing. The types who call Musk ‘Elon’ would be into it too. Those who see everything through ‘left’ and ‘right’ would like it.
That’s a pretty good audience of idiots.
opheliajadefeldt
It is hard to believe that these are two grown men (well, boys really) 2 of the richest men in the world who have not quite grown up and realised their are greater problems in the world than them. Pathetic!!
Paustovsky
What a pair of absolute nimrods.
Jimizo
I think people are being a bit harsh here. Musk said the money would go to charity.
If this handbags at 10 paces doesn’t go ahead, they should donate money to charity anyway.
Chabbawanga
They should do this with all billionaires, but it should be a fight to the death.
EFD
LOL. That is genius. May I "borrow" that one?
Blacklabel
Simply daring to consider to let everyone speak freely causes the left to become crazed. He’s a Super villain!
following orders to censor other side from leftist government? Hero now.
Roy Sophveason
I can't claim authorship on that one, but for the life of me I can't remember where I got it from. Have at it.
Fredrik
Well, let's not judge this fight until we have seen it...
EFD
Yeah, because xenophobes, anti-Semites, misogynists, racists, Nazi-curious goobers and nut-jobs were so under-represented in the public square before.
As for censorship, there was none. It's the fever dream of a cult.
rainyday
You are the only one on here calling Zuckerberg a hero, or saying anything even remotely nice about him.
Roy Sophveason
I said it before, and I'll say it again: Musk does not champion freedom of speech, as he has demonstrated several times when that free speech dared to be directed at His Muskness himself. He sells the dream of freedom of consequence, which is neither a human right nor a right granted by any constitution or law.
He's an pubescent edgelord.
Rhaegar
As for censorship, there was none. It's the fever dream of a cult.
I'm no fan of either of these guys... but to be fair, Zuckerberg did admit to censorship based on FBI warnings.... turns out the FBI was wrong.... whether intentional or not....
Here is some politically correct mainstream "news" which should pass the bias filter:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Hope this "fight" takes place.... I recall a Friends episode with a rich guy wanting to be a UFC fighter... he got beat up every time... Kinda reminds me of Musk too.
N. Knight
Who cares?
Blacklabel
Yes he did. but the misinformation stays posted above and the truth is “off topic”. Typical.
CuteUsagi
How many times are we going to see this statement? media site X, formerly known as Twitter.
This is the same for 18 months of saying Ye formerly known as Kanye Weak....how many times????????
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How many times will we see this Invalid CSRF constant?
Bob Fosse
Which still uses and redirects web traffic to ‘twitter.com’
Big hat, no cattle.
All mouth, no trousers.
Express sister
lmao Zuck is a disgrace but Musk is just pathetic
Musk, June: Let’s have a cage fight
Zuck, pretending not to be a robot: Oh. Kay.
Musk: uh sorry my mom says I can’t boy that’s a shame
—-Two Months Later—-
Musk: I’m ready for the cage match, bring it!
Zuck, trying to pretend he’s from Earth: I’m. Ready.
Musk: oh no I just remembered I have to have surgery maybe I might not be able to make it oh what a shame
kaimycahl
Business clowns taking money from people who wants to see this crap entertainment at its worst!
BeerDeliveryGuy
Interesting origin to that insult. Buggs Bunny often called Elmer Fudd a “Nimrod” in reference to the Bible verse “Nimrod was a mighty hunter,”describing the king of Babel.
Marc Lowe
Why all the hate in the comments here? These two geniuses have made life better for the world via their innovation and superior knowledge. Without X or Meta the world would feel totally different. If they want to have a fight, it is pretty much guaranteed the money the fight makes will be given to worthy charities these pragmatic businessmen support. Everyone should just lighten up and be thankful they have blessed the world with Meta, X and some pretty amazing vehicles and space travel.
Express sister
Yes, it would be better.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The problem is that Musk didn't build the app formerly known as Twitter, he put it in the toilet.
EFD
Zuckerberg was plenty happy to take millions in disinformation ads from the Russians in the 16 cycle.
As for “censorship “ at Twitter, it’s kind of hard to censor a company when you’re not the administration in power at the time of the request.
Like I said, there was none. It’s the fever dream of a cult of rubes.
falseflagsteve
Evil men who are more likely sociopaths. What next? Fight in the arena to the death Roman Gladiator style. The world is a mess.
itsonlyrocknroll
Billionaires and there ego's, fisticuffs at dawn!
I doubt if either will be able to squeeze own pride/exaggerated sense of self-importance into a cage large enough.
Look matron, will bang your heads together, after a sound slippering over her knee
garypen
Next will be a note from his doctor claiming "bone spurs".
garypen
You say that like it's a bad thing.
EFD
He wants to ensure that as few people as possible watch a snarky younger man stomp his ass. (When he recovers from surgery for his non-existent weight training injury of course.)
Streaming it on the glitchy monstrosity known as “X” ought to do the trick.
justsomeguy8008
I used to respect Musk when his goals were about space and the betterment of mankind. Now he seems like a rich kid who just wants to one-up everyone and has too much free time on his hands. SMH
ClippetyClop
Get Bezos and Gates in there too. Winner takes all.