Celebrity Tech Match: Elon Musk admits cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg could go badly for him

With both Musk and Zuck seem to be “dead serious” about the fight according to the president of (UFC) Dana White, the fight is gathering momentum globally. In a recent Tweet, White was shown wearing a 'Zuckerberg vs Musk' UFC t-shirt.

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— danawhite (@danawhite) June 25, 2023

Fight gains momentum

The SpaceX founder told Ashlee Vance on Twitter Spaces on Saturday that the proposed cage match between him and Mark Zuckerberg “might actually happen.”

Additionally, Musk said, "I haven’t started training yet. If this does happen, I will train. I spend my time according to what is needed. I don't usually have to fight people, so I don't train therefore physically."

When Vance said that Zuckerberg took such notions seriously, Musk admits that the cage fight could go badly.

Come one, come all. Am talking commercial space tomorrow with @elonmusk https://t.co/w5KJS5lWD1

— Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) June 24, 2023

Social media users are going into a frenzy analyzing and predicting the outcome of the match as a result of the tech brawl between the two business moguls.

Fridman tweet last week on Thursday caught the audience’s attention. He said, “A jiu-jitsu match between Zuck and Elon would definitely be a fun plot twist in this simulation. I'm all for it.”

“Let’s go full MMA,” Musk replied.

A jiu jitsu match between Zuck and Elon would definitely be a fun plot twist in this simulation. I'm all for it.

— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) June 22, 2023

Social media contention

On Sunday, Fridman broadcasted a Jiu-Jitsu training video with Zuckerberg. The podcast host is also a black belt in jiu-jitsu and has been doing it for over 15 years along with judo and wrestling for 10 more.

Lex Fridman’s podcast interview with Mark Zuckerberg published in June this year uncovers his interest in Jiu-Jitsu, rapport with Elon Musk, and talks of a new text-based social media application, Project 92, competing with Twitter.

According to past reports, Project 92 is the root cause of the tech giants' brawl with Musk baiting Zuck on social media.

Zuckerberg told Fridman, "There is a project. I always thought that a text-based information utility is just a really important thing to society. For whatever, reason, Twitter has not lived up to what I would have thought its full potential should be. That probably may be one of the reasons that Elon bought it."

Additionally, the social media tycoon says that Musk led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner. A lot of the specific principles that he pushed were trying to make the organization more technical, around decreasing the distance between engineers at the company and him, with fewer layers of management.

"I think those were generally good changes even for the industry," Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg further added that he's not a heavyweight guy, therefore, back takes are important and have the most leverage advantage where people's arms are weak behind you.

"I feel like the right strategy is to not commit to any single submission. With that being said, I don’t like hurting people. I think chokes are the more humane way to go than joint locks.”

Let's hop we get a date in the diary soon.

More details on this story as we they develop.