Mark Zuckerberg Calls Out Elon Musk For Dodging Cage Match: ‘Elon Isn’t Serious’

Mark Zuckerberg is calling out rival billionaire Elon Musk for refusing to set a date for their much-hyped UFC-style cage match.

On Sunday, Zuckerberg took to his social media platform, Threads, to take a shot at Musk.

“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” Zuckerberg wrote.

“I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” he continued. “If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”

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In an earlier Threads post, Zuckberg wrote, “I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me. If he ever agrees on an actual date, you’ll hear it from me. Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on.”

On Friday, Musk took took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to claim that he’s found a venue for the fight, which he said would take place at an “epic location” in Italy — specifically, Rome.

Noting that the event will be live-streamed on both X and Meta, Musk wrote, “Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all.”

He added: “I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location.”

In subsequent posts, he wrote that proceeds from the fight will “go to veterans,” but didn’t single out an specific veteran-assisting organizations, adding, “Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of