Musk Drops Big Announcement About His Cage Fight With Zuckerberg

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David Rufful
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Mark Zuckerberg (left) interviewed by Laurie Segall via CNN and Elon Musk (right) interviewed on Real Time With Bill Maher via HBO
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The billionaire battle between tech leaders Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is heating up as both men have released statements on social media.

“Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work,” Musk said in reference to how he is lifting weights at work to prepare for the fight.

“I’m ready today,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I suggested Aug 26 when he first challenged, but he hasn’t confirmed. Not holding my breath. I love this sport and will continue competing with people who train no matter what happens here.” (Trending: Bombshell Report Reveals Collusion Between FBI and Clintons)

“All proceeds will go to charity for veterans,” Musk confirmed in a statement. “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X.”

Zuckerberg shot back: “Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?”

Zuckerberg is actually trained in mixed martial arts and competed in his first jiu-jitsu tournament in 2023.

It’s unclear whether the pair will actually make it to the ring. In July, Musk accused Zuckerberg of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees and stealing Twitter’s intellectual property and trade secrets. Zuckerberg released a “copycat” version of Twitter called “Threads.”

Musk said he is preparing to sue Meta and Zuckerberg for violating numerous laws. “I am officially suing Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram’s Threads,” Musk announced. “They will lose this battle. Trust me.”

Within one day, more than 30 million people signed up to use Threads. Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro wrote, “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”

A Meta spokesman responded, “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.” Zuckerberg claims Musk has failed to create a social network with mass appeal. (Trending: North Face Has A Bud Light Moment And It’s Ugly)

Zuckerberg said, “I think there should be a public conversations app with 1bn+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

The app, which uses people’s Instagram details to log in and allows users to follow people and post text updates, is a direct challenge to Twitter, which Mr Musk paid $44bn (£35bn) for last year. Following the launch of Threads, Zuckerberg said, “Wow, 30m sign ups as of this morning.”

“Feels like the beginning of something special, but we’ve got a lot of work ahead to build out the app.” He said it was “as good of a start as we could have hoped for. The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands,” he added. “I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success. That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as it should have, and we want to do it differently.”