Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to participate in a cage battle.
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, two of the world’s most prominent technology billionaires, have agreed to compete in a cage match.
Mr Musk said on his Twitter account that he was “up for a cage fight” with Mr Zuckerberg.
Mr Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, subsequently tweeted a screenshot of Mr Musk’s message with the comment “send me location.”
“The story speaks for itself,” said a Meta representative to the BBC.
Mr Musk immediately responded to Mr Zuckerberg’s remark with the phrase “Vegas Octagon.”
The Octagon is the fenced-in enclosure and competition mat used for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fights. The UFC is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mr Musk, who turns 52 next month, also tweeted: “I have this great move that I call “The Walrus,” where I just lie on top of my opponent and do nothing.”
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“I almost never work out, except for picking up my kids and throwing them in the air,” he added on Twitter.
Meanwhile, Mr Zuckerberg, 39, has started doing Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and has lately won Jiu-Jitsu tournaments.
When contacted by the BBC for response, Twitter did not issue a remark.
The arguments have gone viral, with social media users arguing who would win the battle and others posting parodies such as mocked up ads advertising the fight.
According to the BBC, Meta presented colleagues designs for a text-based social network aimed to compete with Twitter earlier this month.
It may allow users to follow accounts they currently follow on Meta’s image-sharing programme, Instagram.
It may allow the company to gain followers via decentralised networks such as Mastodon.
A Meta representative acknowledged to the BBC that the platform was in the works.
The text-based network, codenamed P92, may prove to be a more formidable competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter than BlueSky or Mastodon.
