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Cage fight plans with Zuckerberg: Musk announces live stream
Rivals: The relationship between Twitter boss Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is considered tense. photo
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Are the rivals actually stepping into the ring? Twitter boss Elon Musk announces the cage fight between him and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – including live broadcast.
tech billionaire Elon Musk appears plans for a cage fight between himself and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are still in place.
The fight should be broadcast live on the Twitter platform, which he renamed X, Musk wrote on the online service. Proceeds will be donated to former US military personnel. He did not give any further details. At first there was no reaction from Zuckerberg – however, at the time it was already the dead of night in San Francisco.
Zuckerberg, 39, trains with martial arts trainers and is visibly fitter than Musk, 52. The latter wrote that night that he now lifts weights at work because he doesn’t have time to train. Among other things, Musk is the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and continues to make many decisions on the Twitter service he bought for $44 billion.
The prospect of the fight first surfaced in June. Musk challenged Zuckerberg, who agreed. After initial publicity, radio silence followed, leaving many doubting that the tech billionaires would come together in the ring. In the meantime, however, the “New York Times” reported that the fight was actually being prepared. Zuckerberg wrote on Meta’s Twitter Alternative Threads a few days ago that he now has an octagon in his yard – mixed martial arts fights are fought in an octagonal cage.
Musk and Zuckerberg: Strained relationship
Musk and Zuckerberg’s relationship has been strained for several years. According to media reports, one of the triggers was that Facebook’s expensive first satellite was destroyed in the explosion of a rocket from Musk’s space company SpaceX in 2016. The Facebook group then gave up the satellite plans. Musk later took many opportunities to tease Zuckerberg, such as when he claimed his understanding of artificial intelligence was limited.
In the night, when asked what the fight was supposed to be about, Musk wrote: “It’s a civilized form of war. Men love war.” Zuckerberg commented on Threads a few weeks ago that he loves martial arts: He’s “so raw” and lets him express his competitive self.