The highly anticipated cage fight between two well-known technology billionaires and social media titans, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, has been called off.
The Meta Chief Executive Officer and founder says he is moving on from the cage fight with Musk, adding the Tesla founder “isn’t serious”.
Recall that the X owner, formerly known as Twitter challenged follow technology billionaire to a cage battle, Musk tweeted “I’m up for a cage match if he is. lol”. Zuckerberg, took a screenshot of Musk’s tweet, replying “send me location”.
Musk responding in a series of tweets on his Twitter page, said “Vegas Octagon.
“I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus’, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.”
He also added, “I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air.”
Following the cage match proposed by Musk, Zuckerberg took it serious and have been training with New Zealand/Nigerian mixed martial arts star Israel Adesanya.
Elon Musk had earlier shared a screenshot where he texted Zuckerberg asking for a practice round of the fight at his home next week. However, Zuck responded by saying that he should train on his own, “if he wants to fight seriously and that he doesn’t want to ‘hype something’ that will never happen. “You should either decide we’re going to do this and do it soon or we should move on,” Meta CEO said.
Musk replied by saying they should fight in Zuckerberg’s Octagon (that he recently put up in his garden). The Tesla founder added that even though he has not been training much, Zuckerberg is unlikely to win given their size difference. Unless of course, he is a ‘modern day Bruce Lee’.
However, in a recent development, the American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg, via his newly launched platform ‘Threads’ said his rival isn’t serious about the fight.
He wrote on his new app that, “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.”
Responding to Zuckerberg’s post, Musk, 52-year-old called the 39-year-old Zuck a chicken.
He wrote, “Zuck is a chicken.”
