Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk.Photo:Chesnot/Getty
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Mark Zuckerbergjust shared some disappointing news for those who’ve been waiting to see him andElon Muskface off in the octagon.
On Saturday, the Meta CEO, 39, announced onThreadsthat “it’s time to move on” from the proposed – andfrequently teased– cage match between the two billionaires, as he claimed Musk, 52, was not being “serious” about the potential fight.
“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.”
“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me,” he continued. “Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”
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The comment comes nearly two months after the duoseemingly agreed to a cage matchon social media, whenUFC President Dana Whitesaid in an interview withTMZthat he spoke with both men on the phone and that they were “dead serious” about the matchup.
“Because they both said, ‘Yeah we’ll do it.’ They both want to do it. Mark Zuckerberg hit me up first and said, ‘Is he serious?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, let me ask [Musk].’ I asked him and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m dead serious,” White said in June.
“Livestream will be on this platform and Meta,” Muskwrote on Xon Aug. 11. “Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all. I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location.”
“I’m getting an MRI of my neck & upper back tomorrow,” he wrote this month, before adding that he “may require surgery before the fight can happen” and “will know this week.”
“I don’t want to keep hyping something that will never happen, so you should either decide you’re going to do this and do it soon, or we should move on,” the Meta CEO wrote in Musk’s screen-grab message.
In response, Musk recommended they fight in Zuckerberg’s own octagon on Monday, and revealed that he personally had not been “practicing much.”
“While I think it is very unlikely, given our size difference, perhaps you are a modern day Bruce Lee and will somehow win,” Musk wrote.
source: people.com
