Childhood of billionaires? Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg seem ready to settle their differences in an MMA octagon. In any case, it is the proposal of the Twitter kingpin, taken literally by Meta.
The story began this Wednesday when Elon Musk commented on a post on Twitter detailing a Meta project to compete precisely with Twitter. “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be solely under Zuck’s control with no other choice,” he quipped.
And to relaunch “I’m in for a cage match” when a user reminds him that Zuckerberg is a fan of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
The joke could have ended there, except Mark Zuckerberg tersely replied “send me the address” in an Instagram story. An intention to fight that has also been confirmed by a Meta spokesperson for the American media The Verge.
Never stingy with the taunt, Musk added it on Twitter, proposing the Las Vegas Octagon as the location of the fight. “If it’s for real, I’ll do it,” he says.
However, most of his comments suggest that Musk does not necessarily intend to fight.
“I hardly ever train, except to pick my kids up and throw them up in the air,” she explains again.
Sports fight VS street fight
What could be the result of such a struggle? Mark Zuckerberg recently made a name for himself by winning a gold and a silver medal for his team (dubbed “Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu”) at a local Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition in California.
For his part, Elon Musk says he grew up in an “extremely violent” universe in his native South Africa. “I got punched in the face a lot and even once beat me to death.”
The resentment between the two men is not new and Elon Musk rarely hesitates to criticize “The Zuck” for his supposed obsession with controlling public debate, dubbing him “Zuckerberg XIV” after Louis XIV.
Lately, it’s Meta’s project to create a rival to Twitter that has lit the fire. Aware that the blue bird’s social network is in bad shape, the Facebook kingpin hopes to overturn the table with a similar platform.
Source: BFM TV
