{"id":969623,"date":"2023-06-22T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=969623"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:21:28","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-tells-elon-musk-to-send-me-location-after-twitter-owner-challenges-him-to-a-cage-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/2023\/06\/22\/fn%e9%bb%91%e4%bd%93fs22bord1shad03ahbe4ah00fscx67fscy662chffffff3ch808080%e9%a9%ac%e5%85%8b%c2%b7%e6%89%8e%e5%85%8b%e4%bc%af%e6%a0%bc%e5%91%8a%e8%af%89%e7%8b%ae%e5%ad%90%e9%ba%9d%e9%a6%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Told Elon Musk to Send Him Location. The Cage Match Never Happened. Dana White Says the Colosseum Talks Were Real."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has taken extra effort to agitate political opponents since acquiring Twitter, including the progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/11\/03\/elon-musk-aoc-fight-8-fee-subscription-blue-check-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY), who has not held back from answering him. Lately, Musk has been needling a big rival in Silicon Valley: Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta is the parent of Instagram and Facebook. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/21\/23769263\/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight-cage-match-worldstar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge reported<\/a> that Zuckerberg was essentially daring Musk to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to reports that Meta was preparing a rival Twitter app eventually launched as THREADS, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1671364992665264131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk responded<\/a> on June 20 by writing, &#8220;I&#8217;m up for a cage match if he is lol.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/21\/23769263\/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight-cage-match-worldstar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Verge<\/a>, Zuckerberg replied by posting a screenshot of that tweet with the caption, &#8220;Send me location.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m up for a cage match if he is lol<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1671364992665264131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1671705216918474752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On June 21, Musk wrote<\/a>, &#8220;I have this great move that I call &#8216;The Walrus,&#8217; where I just lie on top of my opponent &amp; do nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have this great move that I call \u201cThe Walrus\u201d, where I just lie on top of my opponent &amp; do nothing<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1671705216918474752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/21\/23769263\/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight-cage-match-worldstar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Verge<\/a>, the feud traced back to Meta&#8217;s plans for a text-based app. During an internal all-hands meeting, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox told employees the company believed creators wanted a version of Twitter that was &#8220;sanely run,&#8221; a remark that drew cheers as Meta positioned Threads to court users frustrated with Musk&#8217;s platform.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReneSellmann\/status\/1667542932746825728<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/who-is-andrew-tate-the-self-styled-king-of-toxic-masculinity-arrested-in-romania-12776832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;king of toxic masculinity,&#8221;<\/a> kickboxer Andrew Tate &#8212; who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-65959097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facing charges in Romania<\/a> related to human trafficking and rape &#8212; weighed in on the rivalry between Musk and Zuckerberg. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cobratate\/status\/1671827221890179075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He tweeted on June 22<\/a>, &#8220;Meta banned me everywhere for telling the truth about vaccines. But now we can restore honour with a strike at the enemy clans leader. I will train you @elonmusk. You will not lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meta banned me everywhere for telling the truth about vaccines. <\/p>\n<p>But now we can restore honour with a strike at the enemy clans leader. <\/p>\n<p>I will train you <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You will not lose.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cobratate\/status\/1671827221890179075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>How the Cage Match Saga Ended<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all the online bravado, the two billionaires never actually stepped into a ring. UFC president Dana White initially insisted both men were &#8220;dead serious&#8221; and claimed the bout could become the biggest fight in history, and Zuckerberg &#8212; a trained jiu-jitsu competitor who completed his first tournament earlier that year &#8212; appeared genuinely ready to go. The talks escalated through the summer of 2023, with Las Vegas floated as a venue before Musk teased an &#8220;epic location&#8221; in Italy, even suggesting on August 11 that everything in frame would evoke ancient Rome and that the event would be run by his and Zuckerberg&#8217;s foundations rather than the UFC, with the proceeds going to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum collapsed soon after. Musk said he might require surgery on his neck and back, called the timing &#8220;in flux,&#8221; and at one point asked to do a practice round in Zuckerberg&#8217;s backyard. On August 13, Zuckerberg pulled the plug in a Threads post, writing, &#8220;I think we can all agree Elon isn&#8217;t serious and it&#8217;s time to move on.&#8221; He added that he had offered a real date, that Dana White had offered to organize a legitimate charity competition, and that &#8220;if Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me.&#8221; Musk later maintained the original challenge had been a joke while blaming Zuckerberg for the fight falling through.<\/p>\n<p>The story took an unexpected turn long after the hype died down. Dana White confirmed during a February 2025 appearance on Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show that the negotiations had been real, saying he had been on conference calls with the Italian government about staging the bout at the Colosseum in Rome &#8212; though Italy&#8217;s Ministry of Culture said it had never offered the ancient arena as a venue. White credited the saga with bringing him and Zuckerberg closer, and the Meta CEO later asked him to join Meta&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n<p>For the companion chapter of this saga, see our report on how <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2023\/06\/28\/ufc-legend-georges-st-pierre-to-train-elon-musk-in-preparation-for-his-cage-fight-with-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC legend Georges St-Pierre offered to train Elon Musk<\/a> for the proposed fight. The April 2024 rumor that the bout would co-main Tyson vs. Jake Paul was a gag \u2014 see <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2024\/04\/01\/mark-zuckerberg-vs-elon-musk-confirmed-as-co-main-event-of-mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-boxing-match\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zuckerberg vs. Musk as Tyson-Paul co-main<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a look back at how the viral feud unfolded below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Musk vs. Zuck, CNBC Style: The gloves are off\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDzAWrLxDhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg told Musk to send him location after a cage-match dare. The billionaire bout never happened. Dana White later said Colosseum talks were real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":969631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,193176,24],"tags":[209063,192944,3687,193226,3689,193302,1806,209062,190837],"class_list":["post-969623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-us-news","tag-cage-match","tag-elon-musk","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-tech","tag-tech-news","tag-technology","tag-threads","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark-Zuckerberg-tells-Elon-Musk-to-send-me-location-after-Twitter-owner-challenges-him-to-a-cage-match.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199019,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969623\/revisions\/1199019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/zh-cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}