Twitter owner Elon Musk has challenged jiu-jitsu-trained Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match.
Elon Musk, 51, offered up the match after commenting under a post about Mark Zuckerberg’s most recent suspected project, which will reportedly be called Threads and rival Twitter.
Elon Musk commented that he was sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options, and at least it would be sane, although he was worried there for a moment.
After another user reminded the Tesla CEO that the Facebook creator, 39, ‘does jiu-jitsu now’ Elon Musk brushed it off and said that he was up for a cage match if he was.
Mark Zuckerberg responded on his Instagram story, sharing a screenshot of Elon Musk’s challenge, writing: ‘Send me location’.
Elon Musk has trained in Kyokushin karate, taekwondo, judo and ‘Brazilian jiu-jitsu briefly throughout his life, he disclosed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and he shared a picture of himself fighting a sumo wrestler in the past.
However, Elon Musk might not find the match to be as easy as he believes as the Meta CEO, who recently placed in a jiu-jitsu tournament in May.
Mark Zuckerberg said on a podcast earlier this year that maybe to some degree, your ability to keep doing interesting things is your willingness to be embarrassed again and go back to step one and start as a beginner, and get your arse kicked.
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg bashed a New York Times report that he was knocked out during a Jiu-Jitsu fight after a referee ended the bout early and gave the win to an opponent.
A clip of him wrestling on the floor and attempting to break free from an opponent who pinned him down on the mat went viral.
They struggled for more than a minute before Mark Zuckerberg was locked in a submission before the referee called the match and gave the win to his opponent, and the official said he stopped the fight because he heard the tech CEO snoring and thought he’d passed out during the chokehold.
However, Mark Zuckerberg and his coach Dave Camarillo told the publication he’d not lost consciousness and the referee misunderstood his grunting for snoring.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote in an email that it never happened.
Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox commented on the company’s upcoming text-based app, referring to it as their response to Twitter, the Verge reported earlier this month.
My money would be on Elon Musk winning, but then as Mike Tyson said: ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’.
This could even be the birth of a new sport – billionaire boy fights – pillows at 10 paces.
It would be like the rhinoceros versus the salamander, and they’re acting like bored rich kids with self-inflated egos.
Boys will be boys, but these two just have bigger and more expensive toys.
This is all very sad – don’t they both have more pressing matters to attend to? Perhaps they’re just trying to ‘mark’ their territory with ‘musk’.
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