Elon Musk, the CEO of X formerly Twitter, announced Sunday that his proposed mixed martial arts bout against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be streamed live on the social media platform and "all the proceeds will go to charity for veterans"
The competition between the billionaire social media moguls has heated up in recent weeks since Meta released its new Threads platform, meant to rival Twitter.
Musk threatened a lawsuit, accusing Zuckerberg's company of using Twitter's "trade secrets" and "other intellectual property" to build their version of the app.
No date has been set for the fight. But the proposed location has been the UFC Apex in Nevada. Both men have been training and Musk has been updating his followers on how it’s been going.
"Am lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight," Musk wrote on X. "Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work." "The first episode of 𝕏-Videos!" Musk added.
The Meta CEO appeared to be training with UFC champion Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski ahead of the proposed cage match. Musk has been training with UFC legend Georges St. Pierre and podcaster Lex Friedman in recent weeks, a report by Fox Business says.
The Tesla and Space X founder had challenged Zuckerberg to a mixed martial arts cage match earlier this year in tweet where he wrote, "up for a cage match".
The Facebook founder who is trained in jiujitsu responded, "send location," to which Musk retorted, "Vegas Octagon."
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