Musk: Fight with Zuckerberg will be live-streamed on X

Elon Musk. — © AFP JOEL SAGET

Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X.

Early Sunday morning, Elon Musk, apparently deciding it was just too quiet on the Internet front, choose to stir things up, posting on X: “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on 𝕏. All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”

Musk added that he was “lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight”, adding that he did not have time to work out so brings the weights to work.

One X-user asked Musk what was the point of the fight, reports the NY Post. Musk responded by saying “It’s a civilized form of war. Men love war”.

The whole cage fight Bruhaha came up in late June when Musk tweeted he would be up for having a cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This came about after rumors began circulating that Meta was creating a rival app to Twitter called “Threads.”

Musk commented that he was concerned that Metra already had several social media apps, tweeting, “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.”

Things escalated when one Twitter user jokingly warned Musk of Zuckerberg’s jiu-jitsu training. “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol,” Musk wrote, according to the Associated Press.

A day later, Zuckerberg, 39, who has posted pictures of matches he has won on his company’s Instagram platform, asked Musk, 51, to “send location” for the proposed throwdown, to which Musk replied “Vegas Octagon”, referring to an events center where mixed martial arts (MMA) championship bouts are held.

As brash as Musk is, you would not be surprised to learn this is not the first time Musk has called out a public figure to take him on. In March, the Tesla CEO jokingly summoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to “single combat” — and sparked a feud with some Kremlin officials in the process.

In another tweet, he tagged Putin’s official Twitter account and wrote: “Do you agree to this fight?” Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, tweeted in response to Musk, writing: “You, little devil, are still young.”

As this writer wrote in June, “If nothing else, it begs the question of why two men with a combined wealth of $340 billion would choose to step into the Octagon in Las Vegas just to bash each other’s brains into pulp.”

You might expect the men who between them control Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, to have better sense, however, sarcasm is usually the first casualty of digital conversations: Musk even put a “lol” at the end of his initial response to the idea of a cage fight.

Representatives of X, Meta, and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which owns the venue where the fight might take place, didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.