Billionaire technology rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to square off in a cage match.
On Tuesday, Musk responded to posts about Zuckerberg readying a rival to his social media site by saying, “I’m up for a cage match if he is.”
Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO, shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.”
While this all might seem like immature jesting, ‘The Verge’ claimed Meta spokesperson, Iska Saric duly informed it that Zuckerberg was not joking about participating in a fight noting the ‘ball was now in Musk’s court’.
“The story speaks for itself,” it said quoting Saric.
Musk has since responded by proposing a fight at the ‘Vegas Octagon’, the eight-sided caged fighting arena used in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is based in Las Vegas
Musk, who completed a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of Twitter last October, joked: “I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus’, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.”
He also tweeted: “I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids & throwing them in the air.”
It’s hard to picture either billionaire with fighting capabilities, but Zuckerberg began training in Brazilian jiujitsu during the pandemic, and competed in his first tournament in May where he won gold and silver medals.
As for Tesla boss, he previously boasted about participating in “real hardcore street fights” as a kid growing up in South Africa.