Facebook boss says the brand new Twitter proprietor did not reply to August combat date.
The Battle of the Billionaires might not occur in spite of everything. Despite Elon Musk suggesting he is planning on streaming the combat on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg says the world’s richest man hasn’t been responsive a few recommended combat date. In a Threads publish Sunday night, Zuckerberg not solely stated he is prepared to combat at a second’s discover, however his potential opponent hasn’t been responsive to his recommendations.
“I’m ready today. I suggested Aug 26 when he first challenged, but he hasn’t confirmed. Not holding my breath,” Zuckerberg stated on the brand new Meta-owned social platform.
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In a separate publish on Threads, Zuckerberg poked enjoyable on the stability of X since Musk took over, responding to one in every of Musk’s Sunday morning tweets in hilarious trend. “Shouldn’t we use a more reliable platform that can actually raise money for charity?” the Facebook government stated in response to Musk’s suggestion the combat can be streamed on X.
The Zuckerberg and Musk bout has gained critical traction on-line, with UFC boss Dana White saying he’d be prepared to assist promote.
“Just to give some clarification, what he said was Mark Zuckerberg responded with send me location, which is something Khabib Nurmagomedov says when people challenge him. So that’s what send me location meant, and I was talking to both Elon and Mark last night. Both guys are absolutely dead serious about this,” White advised TMZ earlier this summer season.
He added, “Because they both said ‘yeah, we’ll do it’ (laughs). They both want to do it. Mark Zuckerberg hit me up and said ‘is he serious?’ And I said I don’t know, let me ask him. I asked him and he said ‘I’m dead serious.’ And I agree with you Harvey. This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world.”
The longtime UFC boss says the combat has the potential to be “bigger than anything that’s ever been done” and believes it might break any standing pay-per-view data.
“If these guys are serious, I make fights that people want to see. That’s what I do for a living. If they really want to do it and they’re serious and we can figure it out, figure out a way to pull this off, I would absolutely positively do this”, White stated. When requested if they’d do the combat for charity, White stated, “I don’t think either one of them need any money. I don’t think it would be a money thing for either one of them. They’ve both talked about what they could raise for charity. It would be a massive number. They both pick a charity they care about, and crazy money.”
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