Zuckerberg 'not holding breath' over Musk cage fight

Meta brag Mark Zuckerberg has said helium is "not holding his breath" implicit a projected cage combat with rival Elon Musk.

In a station connected the caller societal media app Threads, Zuckerberg said helium had projected 26 August for the showdown.

Responding to a station connected X successful which Musk claimed helium was grooming "throughout the day", Zuckerberg wrote: "I'm acceptable today... but helium hasn't confirmed."

The 2 became nonstop competitors successful July with the motorboat of Threads.

The societal media moguls person been egging each different connected successful caller months, with Elon Musk claiming connected Sunday that their combat would beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected his societal media level X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

Musk said that immoderate proceeds from a lucifer would spell to veterans charities.

When asked what the constituent of the bout was by 1 X user, Musk responded: "It's a civilized signifier of war. Men emotion war."

Rival X has faced disapproval connected respective occasions since Musk took implicit the steadfast (then called Twitter) and made a fig of changes to the platform, specified arsenic forcing users to log successful to presumption posts. He besides carried retired wide firings astatine the company.

Musk posted a connection connected the societal media level successful June claiming helium was "up for a cage fight" - a combat which typically involves fewer rules.

Zuckerberg past posted a screenshot Mr Musk's tweet with the caption "send maine location", portion Musk responded with: "Vegas Octagon."

The Octagon is the contention mat and fenced-in country utilized for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The UFC is based successful Las Vegas, Nevada.

Musk, 52, besides wrote: "I person this large determination that I telephone 'The Walrus', wherever I conscionable prevarication connected apical of my hostile & bash nothing."

He aboriginal tweeted videos of walruses, possibly suggesting his situation to the Facebook laminitis whitethorn not person been wholly beryllium serious.

Zuckerberg is simply a martial arts enthusiast and said connected Sunday: "I emotion this athletics and volition proceed competing with radical who bid nary substance what happens here."