The match “could really happen,” Musk said.
Twitter owner Musk tweeted Tuesday that he fancied a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently announced that he will start preparing if the mixed martial arts cage fight he initiated with fellow billionaire media magnate Mark Zuckerberg actually takes place.
Twitter owner Musk tweeted Tuesday that he fancied a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu.
“I haven’t started training yet. So if this happens, I will,” Musk said in a conversation on Twitter with Ashlee Vance, the author of a book about Musk and the space race.
This challenge came after Zuckerberg’s company Meta, which owns Instagram, announced its plans to create a text-based social media platform as a competitor to Twitter.
The match “could happen,” Musk said while attending a birthday party in Europe, adding that it could potentially end badly if Zuckerberg takes the match seriously.
Elon Musk teases Zuckerberg with provocative comments on Twitter. According to The Verge’s report, Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, expressed a belief at an internal company meeting that creators want a version of Twitter that is “well managed,” drawing enthusiastic responses from employees.
Notably, 39-year-old Zuckerberg had also recently won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament. On the other hand, Musk, age 51, has the upper hand over Zuckerberg in terms of sheer physical size, and has talked about participating in “genuine hardcore street fighting” while growing up in South Africa, the report said. .
The social media exchange has sparked much discussion on social media with Twitter users suggesting they could train Elon Musk.
Musk also said SpaceX investments in the Starship rocket, whose debut flight exploded over the Gulf of Mexico in April and raised questions about its environmental impact, could approach $3 billion this year.
Musk said SpaceX was working on improvements to Starship.
