Elon Musk AND Mark Zuckerberg’s Possible “cage fight” talks last year would have been, if they had materialised, the “biggest fight ever”, according to UFC CEO Dana White.
What happened: Talking about Lex Fridman podcast on which it was published Youtube On Monday, White was asked if he really thought the confrontation between Musk and Zuckerberg would be good.
In response, White immediately said, “It would have been the greatest fight ever.”
When Fridman pressed further, the UFC president said that many people talk back and forth or file lawsuits against each other. However, these two tech titans were “literally talking about facing each other in the Octagon and fighting.”
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He went on to say that both Musk and Zuckerberg come from work backgrounds that are considered “geek.” White said, “I’m tech nerds. I’m this, I’m that. These are two guys willing to jump down and fight.”
White later said he was taking the entire debacle seriously. “I had projections, I had numbers. I was looking at the locations. I was on the phone to the fucking Colosseum in Italy. Whatever you say, I was there,” he said, adding: “These guys were serious. And this was something that would actually happened.”
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Because it is important: The whole conversation started with rumors about Meta Platform Inc. the launch of “Twitter rival”, which began to peak in June. Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022.
Although the news of Zuckerberg’s Meta plot to take away Twitter’s “bread and butter” had already been reported in December 2022, but it was the time when the rumors about Discussions they were getting stronger.
In a comment on Xformer Twitter, Musk stated that this platform, referring to Threads, would guarantee the CEO of Meta exclusive control over the Earth.
It was this tweet that prompted one user to warn the Tesla CEO on Zuckerberg’s new martial arts skills, to which Musk responded with his now famous words: “I’m ready for a cage match if it’s lol.”
Meta launched Threads in July 2023, which gained 100 million users in just five days of launch.
However, after much back and forth, Zuckerberg said in August that Musk is not serious about the fight and that it’s time to “move on” considering the tech billionaire’s reluctance to confirm a date.
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