Musk's mother spoke up, Zuckerberg | Meta | Musk
The most valuable booking in history has attracted onlookers from all over the internet.
On June 21st local time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was going to have a duel with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook's parent company Meta. Zuckerberg, who loves boxing and fighting, quickly challenged him on his social media platform Instagram, "giving me his spot.".
Zuckerberg Instagram screenshot
In a subsequent tweet, Musk proposed a duel in the Las Vegas Octagonal Cage. "Octagonal cage" is the official name for the comprehensive fighting cage used by UFC.
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This "booking" may be the most valuable event in history, according to the latest data from Bloomberg Billionaires List, the combined wealth of the world's richest man Musk and the tenth ranked Zuckerberg reached $340 billion.
Bloomberg Billionaires List
Initially questioned by many netizens as just a "verbal battle", the duel has gained increasing popularity after receiving multiple side confirmations. The Meta spokesperson stated in an interview with BBC that "this story is self-evident.".
According to CBS reports, UFC Chairman Dana White has stated that he has contacted Musk and Zuckerberg regarding the proposed battle, and the two billionaires are serious about engaging in a competition within an octagonal cage.
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However, Musk's mother Mayer Musk denied the "fight" between the two super rich on Twitter.
She tweeted, "The fighting has been cancelled. It's really a relief." Then she added, "In fact, I cancelled the fighting and I haven't told them yet. But I will continue to say that the fighting has been cancelled just in case."
Screenshot of Meyer Musk's tweet
Although the "melon eating crowd" has been urging both sides to fight on social media, not many people actually believe that Musk can win over Zuckerberg.
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39 year old Zuckerberg is about 12 years younger than Musk, and he has been addicted to boxing, fighting, and more in recent years. At present, Zuckerberg is not only receiving professional comprehensive combat training, but also won the championship of a jujutsu competition just last month.
And Musk, as he himself said, "hardly ever exercises.". He jokingly added in his Twitter reply that he has a move called "Walrus", which is to lie on his opponent and do nothing.
Screenshot of Musk Twitter
If the duel between two billionaires goes as planned, it will become the pinnacle of their years of grudges.
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Dan Aives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, called the duel between the two sides "real hatred" because their conflict has been ongoing for many years, "the conflict has worsened, and it seems that the only solution is a cage duel."
However, Ives also said, "In the end, no matter who wins the game, I think the biggest winner is the Internet."
For many years, Musk and Zuckerberg have been at odds with each other across the air, and after Musk acquired Twitter, the two sides became even more at odds due to direct competition on their social media platforms.
Earlier this year, Musk tweeted that "Instagram has made people feel frustrated.". After the Cambridge Analytics scandal of Facebook user data leakage in 2018, Musk deleted Tesla and SpaceX's Facebook pages and praised them as "very poor.".
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In addition, Musk has also attacked WhatsApp, a chat app under Meta, and in May he tweeted that WhatsApp was "untrustworthy.".
Zuckerberg did not show any mercy towards Musk, as he had publicly criticized him in the past. After the failure of SpaceX's Facebook satellite launch in 2016, Zuckerberg said, "I am deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's launch failure destroyed our satellite. This satellite could have provided a connection for many entrepreneurs and everyone else on the African continent."
Recently, Zuckerberg announced that Meta will launch a direct competitor to Twitter and stated that it wants to create a "rational operating Twitter". Musk also publicly countered this plan, which also intensified the conflict between the two sides.