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The long-hyped possibility of a cage match in between tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk seems no more, after Zuckerberg dismissed Musk for supposedly postponing their expected face-off in the ring.
“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” the Facebook co-founder composed Sunday in a post on Threads, the text-based app Meta released as a rival to X, the business previously referred to as Twitter.
The social networks executives have actually been teasing the possibility of a blended martial arts battle considering that June, calling it a “cage match,” a casual term describing battling in a closed-in area that combatants goal to get away from.
But in his newest talk about the matter, Zuckerberg stated that while he was all set to eliminate, Musk kept developing factors he could not.
“I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity,” Zuckerberg composed, describing the president of the Las Vegas- based business Ultimate Fighting Championship, who the New York Times formerly reported was attempting to arrange the battle.
“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” the ceo of Meta continued. Musk formerly declared he might require surgical treatment prior to battling his competitor.
“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously,” Zuckerberg concluded.
Musk has not yet openly reacted to Zuckerberg’s newest remarks, and a representative for X might not instantly be reached.
But earlier Sunday, he tweeted what he declared was a screenshot of a text discussion with Zuckerberg in which Musk appeared to recommend they fulfill for “a practice bout” on Monday in the yard of Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto house, where he formerly declared to have actually developed an Octagon, a UFC-branded ring, TMZ reported previously this month.
Their friendly competition magnified when Zuckerberg presented Threads last month in a quote to take on X. An lawyer for Musk consequently sent out a letter implicating Meta of misusing X’s trade tricks and working with ex-Twitter workers to make Threads.
“I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options,” Musk tweeted ahead of the Threads rollout.
Shortly after, in reacting to an X user who joked about Zuckerberg being trained in the Brazilian battle sport of jiujitsu, Musk responded, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
Meta’s interactions director, Andy Stone, reacted to reports of the letter from Musk’s lawyer, stating on Threads, “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.”
Musk and Zuckerberg are the 2nd and 16 th wealthiest individuals on earth, respectively, according to Forbes’ latest list of billionaires.
