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The long-hyped chance of a cage match between tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk seems to be no extra, after Zuckerberg dismissed Musk for allegedly delaying their anticipated showdown within the ring.
“I believe we are able to all agree Elon is not critical and it is time to transfer on,” the Fb co-founder wrote Sunday in a put up on Threads, the text-based app Meta launched as a competitor to X, the firm previously generally known as Twitter.
The social media executives have been teasing the potential of a combined martial arts struggle since June, calling it a “cage match,” a casual time period referring to wrestling in a closed-in area that combatants intention to flee from.
However in his newest feedback on the matter, Zuckerberg mentioned that whereas he was able to struggle, Musk saved developing with causes he could not.
“I provided an actual date. Dana White provided to make this a legit competitors for charity,” Zuckerberg wrote, referring to the president of the Las Vegas-based firm Final Combating Championship, who the New York Occasions beforehand reported was making an attempt to prepare the struggle.
“Elon will not verify a date, then says he wants surgical procedure, and now asks to do a follow spherical in my yard as an alternative,” the chief govt officer of Meta continued. Musk beforehand claimed he may have surgical procedure earlier than combating his rival.
“If Elon ever will get critical about an actual date and official occasion, he is aware of learn how to attain me. In any other case, time to maneuver on. I’ll concentrate on competing with individuals who take the game severely,” Zuckerberg concluded.
Musk has not but publicly responded to Zuckerberg’s newest feedback, and a spokesperson for X couldn’t instantly be reached.
However earlier Sunday, he tweeted what he claimed was a screenshot of a textual content dialog with Zuckerberg during which Musk appeared to recommend they meet for “a follow bout” on Monday within the yard of Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto dwelling, the place he beforehand claimed to have constructed an Octagon, a UFC-branded ring, TMZ reported earlier this month.
Their pleasant rivalry intensified when Zuckerberg rolled out Threads final month in a bid to compete with X. An lawyer for Musk subsequently despatched a letter accusing Meta of misappropriating X’s commerce secrets and techniques and hiring ex-Twitter workers to make Threads.
“I am positive Earth cannot wait to be solely underneath Zuck’s thumb with no different choices,” Musk tweeted forward of the Threads rollout.
Shortly after, in responding to an X consumer who joked about Zuckerberg being skilled within the Brazilian fight sport of jiujitsu, Musk responded, “I am up for a cage match if he’s lol.”
Meta’s communications director, Andy Stone, responded to studies of the letter from Musk’s lawyer, saying on Threads, “Nobody on the Threads engineering crew is a former Twitter worker — that is simply not a factor.”
Musk and Zuckerberg are the second and sixteenth richest folks on the planet, respectively, in response to Forbes’ most up-to-date listing of billionaires.
