Zuckenberg, Musk may settle business dispute in the rings

UFC President, Dana White, believes a potential fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk would easily be the most lucrative bout in sports history, reports mmafighting.com.

In case you missed it, over the summer, Zuckerberg and Musk — the two business magnates in charge of Facebook and Twitter respectively — decided they would be interested in fighting one another after Zuckerberg revealed Threads as an alternative to Twitter.

Talk quickly turned to the two settling the score in the UFC, and ever the businessman himself, White jumped at the chance to promote such a spectacle. And while talk on the possible matchup has cooled in recent weeks, White says that he is still working on making the fight happen.

“It’s real,” White said on the Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast. “They do want to fight. It’s real… It’s funny because we were talking about the Coliseum for that fight and I actually did have a meeting with the Minister of Culture’s team in Italy to actually hold that fight in the Coliseum if it would happen. We’re talking.”

White added that should it happen, the two billionaires would be drug tested for the bout as well, just like a real UFC fight. And while the fight certainly won’t be high level, White still thinks the matchup could be competitive. Zuckerberg, 38, is a big fan of MMA and is a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, even competing in some grappling tournaments recently. In contrast, Musk, 52, recently spent some time training with Georges St-Pierre and also has a background in judo.

“Zuckerberg takes this s*** very seriously,” White said. “He is a huge UFC fan. He trains. He’s an MMA fan… But Elon grew up doing judo. He’s a legit judo guy.”

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