Mark Zuckerberg photo source from Facebook
Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unbelievably accepted a challenge to duel, of sorts, with Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and founder of Tesla. The two are now expected to hold a “cage match” against one another, and yes, you did hear that right.
The world now waits in horror at the thought that these two might actually cause physical harm to one another.
Wiktionary defines a cage match as an event in which wrestlers battle in an enclosed location. One wins by escaping over the top.
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So, wtf! How did this all come about in the first place?
Well, Elon Musk was not happy to hear that Mark Zuckerberg was planning to have his Meta/Facebook business start its own messaging platform that would compete with Twitter. At one point, Musk said of the idea that Facebook wanted to expand into another area of social media by saying, “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.”
So, Elon Musk, who claims to have been trained in Kyokushin karate, taekwondo, judo, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, is ready for a fight. On Thursday he bragged on Twitter, “I have this great move that I call “The Walrus”, where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing.”
For his part, Mark Zuckerberg has posted videos of himself learning jiu-jitsu on Facebook’s Instagram platform.
When a user replied to Elon Musk’s Twitter comments about Zuckerberg by warning the Tesla founder that the Facebook founder now knows jiu-jitsu Musk responded by saying, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
And, of course, Mark Zuckerberg picked up the proverbial glove with a pic of the Tweet which he captioned, “send me location.”
Elon Musk later raised the stakes by suggesting they fight in a “Vegas Octagon” referring to the octagon used by UFC for its ultimate fighting events. He then tweeted, “I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus,’ where I just lie on top of my opponent and do nothing.”
So, will there really be a fight? Do you actually care?
At least these two self-made billionaires are actually doing something to help make the world a better place to live in and are not wasting their energies on stupid things like volunteering to work with special needs children or in soup kitchens.
But if there is to be a fight, let’s all hope that no one gets hurt. Well, except maybe Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should be left with one of those bizarre and inexplicable injuries that leaves them both unable to ever use any social media platform ever again.
