Elon Musk announced today that his fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be broadcast live on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on 𝕏.
All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
and that all proceeds from the fight will go to veterans’ charities, such as “Hope for the Warriors”.
In June, Musk and Zuckerberg agreed to a ‘cage match’ face-off.
While Zuckerberg is trained in martial arts and even completed his first jiu-jitsu tournament earlier this year, reportedly. Musk, on the other hand, posted about training for their fight by lifting weights. He tweeted saying, “Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work.”
Am lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight.
Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
Elon Musk has previously announced many things that he did not follow through and it cannot be guaranteed that this fight between the two tech billionaires will actually happen, his tweets draw attention every time.
For his part, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said again that he is ready to fight Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In a post on Threads, he said Musk should return to the date of the match and that he suggested August 26, but the latter did not confirm.
“I’m ready today. I proposed August 26 when he first challenged, but he didn’t confirm it. He didn’t hold my breath,” Zuckerberg said.
His latest comments come in response to Elon Musk’s post on X (formerly Twitter) where he wrote that his proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be broadcast live on the X social media platform and that all proceeds would go to the veterans’ charity.
“The Zuck v Musk fight will be broadcast live on 𝕏. All proceeds will go to Veterans Charity,” Musk said in an X platform post.
Zuckerberg responded by saying that they should “use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity”, (Facebook and Instagram have a built-in fundraising feature while X/Twitter does not.)
How did the cage fight decision come up?
When Meta prepared to release its Twitter rival called Threads, Elon Musk tweeted said that the world was becoming exclusively under “Zuck’s thumb” with no other options. This is when a Twitter user reminded him that Zuckerberg has jiu-jitsu training.
“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol,” Musk wrote.
Representatives of X, Meta and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which owns the venue where the fight might take place, didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
Musk wants to use X to create a “digital town square,” thus he is pushing to stream the footage live there. His widely-publicized Twitter Spaces launch event in May, where Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared his candidature for president, was marred by technical difficulties and a delay of about 30 minutes.
After many people attempted to listen to the audio-only event, Musk claimed that the issues were caused by “straining” servers. The number of listeners listed, even at their peak, was only approximately 420,000, a far cry from the millions of people that televised presidential announcements draw.
