Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seemingly ready to fight Meta CEO rival Mark Zuckerberg after accepting a training offer from Canadian MMA icon Georges St-Pierre.
, Musk said he would be up for a cage fight against Zuckerberg after speculation of Meta creating a rival app to Twitter called "Threads." Musk made a comment on his concern for the Meta CEO owning several social media apps, tweeting, "I鈥檓 sure Earth can鈥檛 wait to be exclusively under Zuck鈥檚 thumb with no other options."
A Twitter user jokingly warned Musk over his comments because Zuckerberg practises jiu-jitsu, to which Musk proposed a cage fight against his fellow tech billionaire. In response, Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of the Twitter thread with the caption "send me location" in an Instagram story.
On Tuesday, Quebec-born UFC legend , offering to be his training partner in a potential fight against Zuckerberg.
"I'm a huge fan of yours and it would be an absolute honour to help you and be your training partner for the challenge against Zuckerberg," St-Pierre tweeted.
"Ok, let鈥檚 do it," replied Musk, who also owns Twitter.
While there is no confirmation as to whether the tech billionaires will actually fight offline, support online continues to fuel the promise of a potential cage fight.
Podcast host and jiu-jitsu black belt of him training with Zuckerberg and said he was looking forward to training with Musk as well.
, UFC President Dana White also egged on the tech billionaires while wearing a shirt that read 鈥淶uckerberg vs. Musk.鈥
Here's a highlight video of Mark Zuckerberg and I training jiu jitsu. I look forward to training with as well. It's inspiring to see both Elon and Mark taking on the martial arts journey. See the full video here:
鈥 Lex Fridman (@lexfridman)