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Michael Tharrington
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Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg 🤪🥊

You probably heard the news, but here's the TL;DR — Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a "cage match" over Twitter and Zuckerberg responded on Instagram with the words “Send me location”. Musk then messaged back with "Vegas Octagon".

Here's a Medium post for a slightly longer breakdown.

MTV’s “Celebrity Deathmatch”, from the late 90’s, fed the public’s imagination (Illustration: Erik Wiedenmann)

Only time will tell if this match happens, but in the meantime, I'm curious about what y'all think...

  • Do you think this fight will happen?
  • Who do you think will win if it does?
  • Of the two, who would you most like to see punched in the face and why?

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Ben Halpern • Edited

Zuckerberg is 12 years younger than Musk, in way better shape, and actually does martial arts as a pretty active hobby.

He also recently provided data that he's in pretty great shape.

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Michael Tharrington

Very true! Zuckerberg does have the stats advantage by a lot. Exactly like you said — youth, better shape, and actual fighting experience. The only thing Elon has going for him is his larger size, but if he's all mush, then it's not likely going to be much help.

If it really becomes serious, I'd imagine that Musk will get some training in, but Zuckerberg has a huge head start. As it stands, I'd have to put my money on Zuck.

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Rachel Fazio

WOW did not know this about martial arts + the 5K stats are super impressive

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Jean-Michel (double agent) • Edited

I've always thought that's the way (business) wars ought to be fought.
Let's the people who want the war do the war.
Dogfooding

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Chris Jarvis

Also this needs to be a loser leaves the net fight.

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, oh yes! I'm all for that outcome.

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Smitter

There is no way Musk is winning unless he implants a brain chip to outsmart zuck

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AntDB

I wonder why this happened? why they want to kick each other's ass?

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Michael Tharrington

This bit from a Vox article titled Why in the world are Elon and Zuck planning to punch each other? might help provide some context:

screenshot from the aformentioned Vox article... paragraphs under the heading "How much meat is there to this beef?"

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AntDB

now I see, thanks for posting this

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Michael Tharrington

No probs at all!

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Michael Tharrington

I'm typically a pacifist, but I'd be lying if I said I don't wanna see these two go at it. 😅

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Chris Jarvis

Zuckerberg has martial arts training and is younger. Musk is the guy that shoots his mouth off but can't back it up.
That said I wouldn't give their sites the traffic to watch the fight.

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Michael Tharrington

Good points all around, Chris! And, I completely understand not wanting to give them the traffic.

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Clara Situma

haha i Don't think it will happpen

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, I feel you on that, Clara! These 2 talk a lot of crap... especially Elon.