Elon Musk says his cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be streamed on X

Elon Musk says his potential physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be live-streamed on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The two tech billionaires reportedly decided to compete in a “cage match” face-off in late June.

In reality, Zuckerberg has experience in mixed martial arts, and the CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta recently wrote about winning his first jiu jitsu event.

“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a post on the platform on Sunday. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”

Musk claimed earlier on Sunday that he was weightlifting to prepare for the fight.

“Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work,” Musk wrote.

It remains to be seen whether Musk and Zuckerberg will actually enter the ring in Las Vegas, especially given that Musk frequently tweets about action but doesn’t actually do it. However, the banter has drawn attention even if their agreement to a cage match is just a joke.

It all began when Musk, who owns X, replied to a tweet about Meta getting ready to launch Threads, a new Twitter competitor. Musk made fun of the idea that the world would soon be “exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options”; however, a Twitter user quickly reminded Musk that Zuckerberg has jiu jitsu experience.

Musk wrote, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”

Emails requesting comment from X, Meta, and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which owns the location where the bout would occur, were not immediately returned.

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 candidacy for president, was marred by technical difficulties and a delay of almost 30 minutes.

The fact that so many people were attempting to listen to the audio-only event, according to Musk, was what was ‘straining’ the 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.