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Tesla and X owner Elon Musk has once again challenged Meta (Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg for a fight. In fact, a video is going viral on the social media platform X, in which Musk is seen saying, ‘I am ready to fight Mark Zuckerberg anywhere, anytime and under any rules.’
In response to this challenge of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his social media platform Threads, ‘Should we really start all this again?’
Musk had challenged Zuckerberg to a fight last year too
Earlier, Elon Musk had challenged Zuckerberg for a cage fight in June last year. Both of them had also started training for this fight. Photos and videos of their training had also surfaced then.
In the photos, both were seen fighting with popular podcaster and AI researcher Lex Fridman. However, later Musk did not show interest in the fight, due to which the fight was postponed.
Photo of Friedman training with Musk
Elon Musk (above) takes on Friedman during a training session.
Photo of Friedman’s training with Zuckerberg…
Friedman training ju-jitsu with Mark Zuckerberg.
MMA fighters Israel Adesanya (left) and Alex Volkanovski (right) with Mark Zuckerberg (center).
How did the cage fight challenge start between the two
Zuckerberg’s company Meta had talked about launching a platform like Twitter. After this, Daily Mail published a report, whose headline was – Zuckerberg’s master plan to end Twitter revealed. This report started being shared on Twitter. On one such post, Elon Musk posted an emoji teasing Zuckerberg.
More details related to Zuckerberg’s new platform were shared from a Twitter handle named Mario Nafwal. Nafwal is also followed by Elon Musk. It was said that the name of Meta’s new app could be ‘Thread’. On this, a Twitter user wrote – Musk better be careful… I heard that Zuckerberg is now doing Ju-Jitsu.
Musk-Zuckerberg fight was to be live streamed from the Colosseum
This is where the cage fight challenge started. Musk replied to the post – I am ready for a cage fight. After this, when Zuckerberg asked Musk about the location of the fight, Musk replied – Vegas Octagon. Later Musk said that this fight could also take place in the Roman Colosseum. However, details of when this fight would take place were not revealed.
Then Musk had said that the fight will be managed by my and Zuck’s (Zuckerberg) foundation companies, (not UFC). Its live stream will be on this platform (X) and Meta (i.e. Facebook and Instagram). The income from the fight will be donated to the elderly.
Italy’s Colosseum, one of the historical heritage sites, is one of the seven wonders of the world. (File photo)
What did the fighter who trained with both of them say…
Friedman, who shared pictures of Musk’s training, wrote – I did a training session with Elon Musk for a few hours. I am very impressed with his strength, power and skill. It is really inspiring to see Elon and Mark doing martial arts. If both of them train in martial arts, it will be better for the world. But this training should not be for fighting.
Friedman had trained Ju-Jitsu with Zuckerberg and wrote- This is a video of me and Mark Zuckerberg training Ju-Jitsu. I am looking forward to training with Elon Musk as well.
Musk is a street fighter and Zuckerberg is a Ju-Jitsu champion
Musk, 51, is in better physical shape than Zuckerberg. He grew up in South Africa, where he said he got into “real hard-core street fights.” Zuckerberg, 39, is an aspirational MMA fighter who has already won jujitsu tournaments. Last year, he completed the Murph Challenge workout in less than 40 minutes.
What is Jujitsu and Cage Fighting?
Ju-jitsu is a Japanese technique of unarmed combat and physical training. In cage fighting, two fighters fight inside a cage. Fighters use many fighting techniques. In this, techniques like mixed types of martial arts such as boxing, wrestling, judo, jujitsu, karate, Muay Thai are used.
