Elon Musk says his likely in-particular person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media web site X, formerly regarded as Twitter.
The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” encounter-off in late June. Zuckerberg is actually experienced in mixed martial arts, and the CEO of Facebook’s parent firm Meta posted about completing his initial jiu jitsu match earlier this 12 months.
“Zuck v Musk battle will be stay-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a put up Sunday on the system. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”
Musk explained earlier Sunday he was teaching for the combat by lifting weights.
“Don’t have time to get the job done out, so I just deliver them to operate,” Musk wrote.
Whether or not or not Musk and Zuckerberg essentially make it to the ring in Las Vegas has nevertheless to be observed — primarily as Musk generally tweets about motion prematurely or without following via. But even if their cage match cagreement is all a joke, the banter has attained focus.
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It all started out when Musk, who owns X, responded to a tweet about Meta getting ready to release a new Twitter rival named Threads. He took a dig about the earth getting “exclusively less than Zuck’s thumb with no other options” — but then a person Twitter consumer jokingly warned Musk of Zuckerberg’s jiu jitsu education.
“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol,” Musk wrote.
Reps of X, Meta and Top Combating Championship, which owns the venue exactly where the fight might take spot, failed to instantly respond to emails searching for comment.
Musk’s push to stream the online video stay on X comes as he aims to convert the system into a “digital city sq..” On the other hand, his significantly-publicized Twitter Areas kickoff party in Might with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president struggled with technical glitches and a around half-hour delay.
Musk experienced said the problems were because of to “straining” servers for the reason that so a lot of people today ended up attempting to listen to the audio-only function. But even at their highest, the selection of listeners listed topped out at about 420,000, much from the thousands and thousands of viewers that televised presidential bulletins appeal to.