Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk aren't going to fight – or are they? (but if they...

[Shawn Knight]

Bottom line: Here's one I didn't have on my bingo card this week – a potential cage match between two of tech's most well-known personalities. It's almost certainly never going to happen, but it's fun to think about what could transpire if it did.

Update: This might have some legs to it after all. UFC boss Dana White told TMZ on Thursday that he's been in talks with Zuckerberg and Musk since Wednesday night and that "both guys are absolutely dead serious about this."

Tesla and Space X chief Elon Musk said in a recent tweet that he would be "up for a cage match [with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg] if he is." According to The Verge, Zuck responded on Instagram with a screenshot of Musk's tweet and the caption, "Send Me Location," which is a reference to former UFC champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and his feud with Conor McGregor.

UFC president Dana White spoke to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about their cage fight and says they're 'dead serious'

"This would be the biggest fight in the history of the world"

PPV would cost $100 and all proceeds would go to charity pic.twitter.com/tF9UQy1pfr

– Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) June 22, 2023

Musk later fired back with, "Vegas Octagon." Musk then said he had a great move called The Walrus, where he just lies on top of his opponent and does nothing.

It's all fun and games at this point, and you probably should not expect much of anything to come of it. But if the stars were to align just right and the two were to find themselves face to face in competition, how might it play out?

Neither man is exactly a spring chicken at this point. Zuckerberg just celebrated his 39th birthday and Musk will be turning 52 later this month. What's more, Meta's chief started training in both Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts in 2022. He also attended a UFC event in October and sat cageside with his wife and UFC president Dana White.

Just last month, he won gold and silver medals at a BJJ competition in Redwood City, California.

The Boss & The Zuck �"� #UFCVegas61 pic.twitter.com/WOEnGdaowi

– UFC (@ufc) October 2, 2022

As far as we know, Musk has no formal training under his belt. Factoring in training and age alone, we would have to give the edge to Zuckerberg in a grappling or MMA match. Size isn't much of a factor, especially when your opponent has been training.

Again, nothing is likely ever going to materialize between the two. But if it did, it would be a spectacle for sure and one that could raise a lot of money for charity if done right.

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[wiyosaya]

Unless Zucky is training several hours a day and several days a week, IMO, two years, even with the supposed gold medals, is not much training.

In any event, I think both are suffering from testosterone poisoning.

 

[Achaios]

(but if they did, Zuck would smash Musk)

Blatant trolling. 2/10

 

[Haaky]

Let me fight them , I would love to kick Mark Zuckerberg ***

Guy looks like a stoned robot

 

[The Truth]

Elon would crush the pencil-necked geek and spit out the boney remains.

 

[gingerbill]

I have done martial arts I am not knocking it but people who do it get carried away with themselves. I got fitter and its great but I wouldn't take much of it into a proper fight , if anything at all . I would bet more people have got hurt through delusion than had some heroic victory.

two years of training is laughable , I did 20 but I was still an amateur who knew I was still not very good. You don't get seriously better unless your training is serious . And doing it once a week even for 20 years isn't serious.

I could train for a hundred years and the guy at the local pub who has a proper fight every other week would still destroy me.

 

[Shawn Knight]

I have done martial arts I am not knocking it but people who do it get carried away with themselves. I got fitter and its great but I wouldn't take much of it into a proper fight , if anything at all . I would bet more people have got hurt through delusion than had some heroic victory.

two years of training is laughable , I did 20 but I was still an amateur who knew I was still not very good. You don't get seriously better unless your training is serious . And doing it once a week even for 20 years isn't serious.

I could train for a hundred years and the guy at the local pub who has a proper fight every other week would still destroy me.

Which discipline(s) did you train?

 

[RandomWAN]

"Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk aren't going to fight (but if they did, Zuck would smash Musk)"

Go back and watch his sparring sessions again. He's not going to smash anything. At best this would look like another celebrity boxing match.

 

[kiwigraeme]

I for one support Billionaire Death Match

 

[nulll]

I have done martial arts I am not knocking it but people who do it get carried away with themselves. I got fitter and its great but I wouldn't take much of it into a proper fight , if anything at all . I would bet more people have got hurt through delusion than had some heroic victory.

two years of training is laughable , I did 20 but I was still an amateur who knew I was still not very good. You don't get seriously better unless your training is serious . And doing it once a week even for 20 years isn't serious.

I could train for a hundred years and the guy at the local pub who has a proper fight every other week would still destroy me.

Strongly agree, after nearly 20 years of different combat sports from Taekwondo to Roman Greco wrestling and finally Kick boxing (tiny home town in the sticks, lots of free time) I took 10 years off to build my small business thinking I could just get back into it later when I had time. You really don't appreciate how much speed, coordination and flexibility you loose without noticing then before you know it you're in your 40's and ya kinda gotta make sure all the right joints have had their little cracks and pops before you even consider rolling or throwing a kick with anything on it.

Maybe they should just have a celebrity invitational Quake 3 or Unreal tournament, stream it and charity the profits?

 

[Trapped Nowhere]

 

[gingerbill]

Which discipline(s) did you train?

Karate , Judo and kick boxing

Karate isn't very good to be honest , any martial art that teaches blocking punches I wouldn't bother with . It was still fun and good for fitness.

And I was always awful at kicking so I treated kick boxing as boxing.

 

[brucek]

I can not think of another fight where the audience would so enjoy every punch, kick or slap landed. Truly the definition of a win/win at least from the audience perspective.

 

[trgz]

Make it 'to the death' (or 'to the pain?!) and I'd begin to care.

 

[Nobina]

Let me fight then instead!

 

[captaincranky]

I've seen clips of Brazilian jujitsu. It looks like a cross between collegiate wrestling and male gay porn. Hey, I call 'em the way I wince at 'em.

I don't suppose there's been any mention made yet, as to whether this will be in mud, oil, or jello?

 

[captaincranky]

 

[wiyosaya]

I have done martial arts I am not knocking it but people who do it get carried away with themselves. I got fitter and its great but I wouldn't take much of it into a proper fight , if anything at all . I would bet more people have got hurt through delusion than had some heroic victory.

two years of training is laughable , I did 20 but I was still an amateur who knew I was still not very good. You don't get seriously better unless your training is serious . And doing it once a week even for 20 years isn't serious.

I could train for a hundred years and the guy at the local pub who has a proper fight every other week would still destroy me.

Agreed. I did three years of Wing Chun (once or twice a week for about 1.5 or 2 hours, passed my first level test, but no longer train) and consider myself a novice - even then. I'd have to say that the best move I learned during that time, from the Sifu of the school, was not part of the art.

Fortunately, the Sifu made every effort to keep those who were just looking to fight out of the school.

After Musk saying he'd face Putin, this does not surprise me in the least coming from him.

Back when I was training, my boss wanted to fight me. I said NO. As I said, there are some guys out there who just seem to suffer from testosterone poisoning.

 

[wiyosaya]

Maybe they should just have a celebrity invitational Quake 3 or Unreal tournament, stream it and charity the profits?

IMO, Musk or Zucky doing anything, together no less, for charity would really be news.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

The winner will be the one that runs out of money last to buy more substitute fighters.

 

[JKnight]

It should be fight to the death. With the winner getting a one trip to Mars. Win-Win

 

[Beerfloat]

I don’t often root for Mark Zuckerberg, but when he’s up against that shitstain I’ll have some popcorn ready.

 

[Marco Mint]

I'm in my 50's and I'd take zuck on just for sh*ts n giggles. He's done some martial arts training and I haven't. However I can look after myself and knocked a black belt Judo guy out while he was putting one of his throwing manoeuvres on me (whilst I was in his hold). I also held my own against some **** karate guy whose blocks were very frustrating for me tbh, but he never got one hit on me either.
How about it Zuck? I'd enjoy the exercise.

 

[Kam7r]

I'll pay big money to be unleashed in an octogon with the 2 of them... without rules

 

[RandomWAN]

I'm in my 50's and I'd take zuck on just for sh*ts n giggles. He's done some martial arts training and I haven't. However I can look after myself and knocked a black belt Judo guy out while he was putting one of his throwing manoeuvres on me (whilst I was in his hold). I also held my own against some **** karate guy whose blocks were very frustrating for me tbh, but he never got one hit on me either.
How about it Zuck? I'd enjoy the exercise.

Zuckerberg has the done the guided safari equivalent of training. He's had some people hand-hold him through some demonstration-paced movements. He's had no real training that have been released on video. Top that off with the videos we have seen being his "highlights reel," so there is a lot more footage of him looking worse and more inept than what was released.