Billionaire brawl: all the latest on the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

• Jun 28

  Jay Peters

  Elon Musk has trained with Lex Fridman.

  Seems like a way to prepare for the fight he agreed to do with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has also trained with Fridman, who is a black belt in jiu jitsu.
• Jun 25

  Wes Davis

  Elon Musk thinks his fight with Mark Zuckerberg “might actually happen.”

  In a Twitter Spaces session with Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance, at the 6:20 mark of the recording, Musk, who was at a friend’s birthday party, was asked about his proposed cage match with Zuckerberg (via Insider). Here’s an abridged transcript of the Spaces conversation:

  Vance: I would be remiss if I did not ask you about this cage match and how your training is going for that.

  Musk: Well, I haven’t started training yet, so… if it does happen, I will train.

  Vance: [Zuck] takes this stuff pretty seriously. This could go, this could go badly.

  Musk: Yeah that’s possible.

  Vance: Alright, we’ll go to space, unless you have other thoughts on the cage match.

  Musk: I mean I think it might actually happen.

  The roughly minute-long exchange preceded a discussion that touched on topics like SpaceX, Russia, and Starlink.

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• Jun 24

  Wes Davis and Richard Lawler

  Mark Zuckerberg wants more fans?

  A write-up in The Washington Post says the Zuck’s latest attempt at image rehabilitation (remember the “only eating meat from animals he’d personally killed” phase?) is, in part, a bid to win over Musk stans.

  Zuckerberg has appeared on podcasts hosted by provocateur Joe Rogan and AI researcher Lex Fridman, both popular among fans of Twitter owner Musk. He has posted sweaty action shots on Instagram displaying his jujitsu skills. And this week, he accepted Musk’s challenge to a cage fight after news reports on Meta creating a Twitter competitor.

  But Zuckerberg has really ramped it up over the past year, one of the people said, courting the same “tech bros” who have been captivated by Musk — who is suddenly Zuckerberg’s competition in more ways than one.

  The cage match between him and Musk may just be the most recent part of his new pitch, even before Instagram’s “sane” Twitter alternative arrives.
• Jun 23

  Alex Heath

  Musk versus Zuckerberg at the Octagon

  Photo illustration by William Joel/The Verge; photos by Nathan Laine and Kevin Dietsch via Getty

  Mark Zuckerberg is the overwhelming favorite to beat Elon Musk in a cage match.

  Will it actually happen? Potentially, but not before Zuckerberg releases his Twitter competitor next month. I have more details on all that, plus takeaways from Figma’s annual Config conference — the Coachella for product designers — in downtown San Francisco this week. 

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• Jun 22

  Alex Heath

  Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match

  Mark Zuckerberg / Meta

  Here we go.

  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.”

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