The much-hyped cage fight between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will be streamed on Twitter, the social media platform that Mr. Musk recently rebranded as “X,” Mr. Musk has declared.
While it’s not clear when (and perhaps even if) the matchup will take place between Mr. Musk, who has little formal martial arts training, and Mr. Zuckerberg, who has won several medals in a recent jiu-jitsu competition, both billionaires appear serious to duke it out.
Most recently, Mr. Musk took to social media on Sunday to announce that the “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X.”
Mr. Zuckerberg responded to Mr. Musk’s remarks on his own recently-launched social media platform Threads by taking a jab at X.
“Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?” the Meta CEO quipped.
The public rivalry between the two tech CEOs perhaps dates as far back as 2016, when Mr. Zuckerberg expressed dismay that Mr. Musk’s company SpaceX failed to launch a Facebook satellite that was meant to provide internet connectivity in Africa.
Mr. Musk would later apologize for the incident, in which his SpaceX rocket carrying Facebook’s new satellite blew up, destroying Facebook’s payload too. But the rivalry between the two has only risen in the years since.
More recently, when reports emerged in June that Mr. Zuckerberg was working on a Twitter competitor that would later be officially rolled out as Threads, Mr. Musk first challenged the Meta chief to a cage fight.
Mr. Zuckerberg, who’s been training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu since 2022 and has already won medals in a tournament, promptly accepted.
‘Not Holding My Breath’
While questions have swirled whether the two tech titans are truly serious about the cage fight, UFC President Dana White has started hyping a potential matchup between the two.
By Tom Ozimek
