Musk confirms The Colosseum in Rome was locked up as a venue for the battle of the tech giants … until Zuckerberg pulled the plug on the fight.
Elon Musk is accusing Mark Zuckerberg of being the reason their big Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) “super fight” fell through.
Musk and Zuckerberg were circling each other for a “Billionaire vs. Billionaire” bout earlier this year, but things fizzled after the Zuck accused Musk of not taking things seriously.
That’s not how Elon feels things went, though.
“He chickened out,” the X (formerly Twitter) owner said on The Joe Rogan Experience. “Yeah, he chickened out.
“Italy actually was willing to let us use the Colosseum,” he added. “So, I was like, ‘Well, you can’t turn that down.’ And then I was like, ‘We don’t want to have tons of ads and UFC branding on the Colosseum because it’s a historical place, you don’t want it to be like NASCAR.’”
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“And then Zuck pulled out,” Musk continued. “He used the pull-out method. He was like, ‘Oh no, it’s got to be UFC rules. I’m like well, okay, we’re gonna have UFC rules in the Colosseum. It’s fine, but we just don’t want to have it — you got to respect the historical integrity of the place.
“He accused me of not being serious,” Musk continued. “And I said, ‘Listen, at the end of the day, I’ll fight you any place, anywhere under any rules.’’
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“I’m way bigger than him, it’s unfair — I don’t think he should fight me,” Musk said. “I’m like 50 percent bigger than him. I’ve got my patented walrus move where I just lay on him. The walrus doesn’t need martial arts training because it’s really big. You don’t want to go wrestling a walrus because it’s gonna roll on you.”
Musk is still convinced that he’d beat Zuckerberg, who is quickly climbing his way up the Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranks with daily private lessons.
“I think I’ll be decent,” he declared. “I did some martial arts competitions as a teenager.”
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