Musk early this morning, Musk’s Twitter (now rebranding as X) will livestream the cage bout between Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Musk announce that the money would be donate to a veteran’s organization.
Musk says fight with Zuckerberg will be live: Musk’s tweet was retweet by Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who added the comment that she was clearing her schedule. The situation on Zuckerberg’s end, however, seems to be calm for the time being as he has not yet reacted on Threads or Instagram this morning.
The two billionaires first announced their intention to fight in a cage in a series of social media posts on their respective platforms in June (Musk on Twitter, Zuckerberg on Instagram). However, since the end of June, there hasn’t been much discussion about the fight. In late July, a Reuters piece quoted Zuck as stating he wasn’t sure if the fight would “come together.”
Before that, UFC champion George St-Pierre and computer scientist Lex Fridman, who is skill in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, had seen Musk working out. Dana White, the president of the UFC, is reportedly serving as their mediator. Talk of the fight comes as Zuckerberg reportedly tries to repair his reputation in an effort to win over Musk haters, even as his new social network, Threads, poses the largest threat yet to Twitter’s supremacy in short-form publishing.
Given Zuckerberg’s statement from last month, it is still unclear whether this genuinely implies the fight will go place. “If it does, sports betting enthusiasts still consider Zuckerberg, who has been spotte putting in a lot of training and even winning MMA matches, as the favorite to prevail.”
Regarding Musk’s remark, we’ve contacted Meta and Twitter. If we hear back, we’ll update.