Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, two of the most well-known technology billionaires in the world, have agreed to square off in a cage match.

Musk and Zuckerberg agree to fight: Mr. Musk declared that he was “up for a cage fight” with Mr. Zuckerberg in a statement on the social media site Twitter.

A screenshot of Mr. Musk’s tweet with the message “send me location” was subsequently tweeted by Mr. Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook and Instagram parent firm Meta.

A spokeswoman for Meta told the BBC that “the story speaks for itself.”

The comment from Mr. Zuckerberg was then met with Mr. Musk’s response, “Vegas Octagon.”

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fights take place on a competition mat inside of a fenced-in arena called The Octagon. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the UFC.

Later this month, Mr. Musk, who will be 52, also tweeted: “I have this great move that I call “The Walrus,” where I just lie on top of my opponent and do nothing.”

Later, he tweeted brief walrus videos, possibly indicating that his challenge to Mr. Zuckerberg was not fully serious.

As he added in another tweet, “I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air.”

In the meantime, Mr. Zuckerberg, 39, has been practising mixed martial arts (MMA) and has lately triumphed in jiu-jitsu competitions.

The BBC approached Twitter for comment but received no response.

The debate over who would win the fight has gone widespread on social media, with fans posting memes and spoof advertisements for the match.

Seyi Taylor, a business consultant, tweeted, for instance, “Choose your fighter” along with images of the two tech executives.

“Potential Showdown: Zuckerberg vs. Musk – UFC President Dana White Excited”

The president of the UFC, Dana White, would be “licking his lips at the possibility of putting this fight on,” according to broadcaster and combat sports journalist Nick Peet on the BBC’s World at One show.

Because of Elon Musk’s mentality and unique temperament, he claimed, there was a good possibility it might actually happen. His professional history tends to imply that he doesn’t take voluntary retirement.

But when asked who he believed would triumph, he responded, “Zuckerberg all day! He’s younger by 12 years. He’s much, much smaller. Furthermore, He’s about 5’7”, and Elon is probably about 6′. Elon weighs perhaps a few of stone more than he did previously.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Musk has absolutely no training. It wouldn’t be difficult for Zuckerberg to take his back, put his arms around his neck and give him a good old cuddle and choke him out, even if he has only been doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for 18 months.

Mr. Musk has a history of making unreliable or unfulfilling statements.

For instance, he claimed to have appointed his dog as Twitter’s CEO when speaking to the BBC in April.

In 2017, he claimed to have “verbal government approval” for a hypothetical train system called the “hyperloop” that would link New York City to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. This hasn’t happened yet.

n 2018 After tweeting that he planned to take Tesla private, authorities prompted Mr. Musk to resign as Tesla’s chairman.

Additionally, Mr. Musk has followed through on several of his promises, such as resigning from his position as CEO of Twitter this year when the platform’s users supported him in a poll he sponsored.

However, he had already stated that he intended to leave his position as CEO in November 2022.

Tech competition

According to insiders who spoke to the BBC, Meta earlier this month presented staff designs for a text-based social network meant to challenge Twitter.

Users might be able to follow accounts they already follow on Meta’s photo-sharing programme, Instagram.

It might enable the business to attract users from decentralised platforms like Mastodon.

The BBC received confirmation from a Meta representative that the platform was under construction.

The text-based network, whose working name is P92, may end up being more of a Twitter competitor than either BlueSky or Mastodon.