Cage fight does not take place
Zuckerberg has the fax thick from Musk
08/14/2023, 03:20 am
For weeks, Facebook boss Zuckerberg has been getting in shape with professional help for the cage fight proposed by Elon Musk. The Twitter owner, on the other hand, is more concerned about an appropriate backdrop and is obviously not in a hurry to hold the event. Now Zuckerberg is tired of the excuses.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has lost patience with Elon Musk’s lurching course over the potential cage fight between the two tech billionaires. The final straw came when Musk proposed a practice session at Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto. “I think we can all agree that Elon doesn’t mean it,” Zuckerberg wrote on his new online service, Threads. It’s time to focus on other things.
Zuckerberg emphasized that he had suggested a specific date for Musk. And the head of the martial arts organization UFC, Dana White, offered to organize an official match. “Elon doesn’t confirm the appointment, then says he needs an operation and now instead suggests a training session in my backyard,” he said. If Musk ever wants to get serious about a specific date and official event, “he knows how to reach me,” added Zuckerberg. Until then, he will compete with people “who take the sport seriously”.
Musk then berated Zuckerberg on Twitter, which he recently renamed X, as a “coward”. In a screenshot from a chat exchange between the two tech billionaires, Musk gives the impression that after the training offer, he also suggested that the actual fight on Monday be held in the octagon in Zuckerberg’s garden. Zuckerberg, 39, trains with martial arts experts and is visibly fitter than Musk, 52.
Musk wanted to go under the knife first
The prospect of the fight first surfaced in June. It was Musk who challenged Zuckerberg, who immediately agreed. After that, the Facebook founder repeatedly emphasized that he was already ready for a fight, but Musk had not agreed to any proposed date.
Tesla CEO Musk, meanwhile, wrote on Friday that he needed surgery for a problem with his right shoulder blade, from which he would need several months to recover. At the same time he claimed that the fight should take place against a historical backdrop in Italy. He spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano and they promised an “epic place”. It will not be Rome, Sangiuliano clarified shortly afterwards.