“Men Love War”
Elon Musk wants to broadcast the cage fight live
08/06/2023 2:09 p.m
The idea of two men fighting in a cage may take some getting used to. But tech billionaires Musk and Zuckerberg are planning to do just that and are already training. Musk also explains what the fight is supposed to be about.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is apparently still planning a cage fight between himself and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The fight should be broadcast live on the Twitter platform, which he renamed X, Musk wrote on the online service. Proceeds will be donated to former US military personnel. He did not give any further details. There was no reaction from Zuckerberg – although it was already the middle of the night in San Francisco at the time.
Zuckerberg, 39, trains with martial arts trainers and is visibly fitter than Musk, 52. The latter wrote that night that he now lifts weights at work because he doesn’t have time to train. Among other things, Musk is the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and continues to make many decisions on the Twitter service he bought for $44 billion.
Zuckerberg has octagon in the garden
The prospect of the fight first surfaced in June. Musk challenged Zuckerberg, who agreed. Then came radio silence, leaving many doubting the tech billionaires’ in-ring clash would happen. In the meantime, however, the “New York Times” reported that the fight was actually being prepared. Zuckerberg wrote on Meta’s Twitter Alternative Threads a few days ago that he now has an octagon in his yard – mixed martial arts fights are fought in an octagonal cage.
Musk and Zuckerberg’s relationship has been strained for several years. According to media reports, one of the triggers was that Facebook’s expensive first satellite was destroyed in the explosion of a rocket from Musk’s space company SpaceX in 2016. The Facebook group then gave up the satellite plans. Musk later took many opportunities to tease Zuckerberg, such as when he claimed his understanding of artificial intelligence was limited.
In the night, when asked what the fight was supposed to be about, Musk wrote: “It’s a civilized form of war. Men love war.” Zuckerberg commented on Threads a few weeks ago that he loves martial arts: He’s “so raw” and lets him express his competitive self.