Rival billionaire tech bosses it seems that agreed to a brawl in June, when Elon Musk tweeted he was once ‘up for a cage battle’.

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg says he’s transferring on from a rumoured cage battle with Elon Musk, claiming the Tesla founder “isn’t critical”.

The rival billionaire tech bosses it seems that agreed to a brawl in June, when Musk tweeted he was once “up for a cage battle”. Zuckerberg, who manages Fb and Instagram, took a screenshot of Musk’s tweet, replying “ship me location”.

Alternatively, Zuckerberg on Sunday mentioned at the social media platform Threads: “I believe we will all agree Elon isn’t critical and it’s time to transport on. I introduced an actual date. [Ultimate Fighting Championship boss] Dana White introduced to make this a official pageant for charity.”

Zuckerberg is educated in combined martial arts, posting about finishing his first jiujitsu event previous this 12 months.

Musk mentioned remaining week that he was once coaching for the battle by way of lifting weights. “Don’t have time to determine, so I simply deliver them to paintings,” he wrote.

“Elon received’t ascertain a date, then says he wishes surgical operation, and now asks to do a tradition spherical in my yard as a substitute,” Zuckerberg mentioned.

“If Elon ever will get fascinated by an actual date and reputable match, he is aware of how to achieve me. Differently, time to transport on. I’m going to concentrate on competing with individuals who take the game critically.”

Musk, proprietor of social media platform X, previously named Twitter, looked as if it would recommend the battle could be held in an “epic location” in Italy.

Italy’s Tradition Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano mentioned in a observation that he spoke to Musk about webhosting a “huge charitable and traditionally evocative match”.

He didn’t specify what the development could be or when it could be held, announcing handiest it could now not happen in Rome.

Opposition politicians denounced his willingness to let the social media and tech moguls struggle it out in Italy.

“I to find it merely mind-boggling that the Italian cultural heritage is being made to be had to 2 billionaires who need to indulge themselves like silly youngsters,” mentioned Carlo Calenda, a former business minister and head of Azione celebration.

“There are issues that merely aren’t on the market. Such a is the glory and historical past of an excellent country.”

The animosity between the 2 tech billionaires’ firms has greater in contemporary weeks after the July 2023 release of Threads, a text-based dialog app, by way of Zuckerberg’s Meta.

Twitter despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Zuckerberg after the release, claiming Meta had made “illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s industry secrets and techniques and different highbrow assets”.