UFC President Dana White revealed that the long-teased combat between tech moguls Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is probably going lifeless within the water.
Over the summer time, MMA and mainstream media exploded when it was revealed that Fb co-founder Mark Zuckerberg had accepted a problem to combat Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in a contest promoted by White’s Las Vegas-based combat firm. The story shortly took on a lifetime of its personal as the boys continued to commerce barbs on social media, producing headlines each day.
At one level, the story reached such astronomical highs that the pair had been even rumored to take their combat to Italy, competing inside Rome’s iconic Colosseum. Nonetheless, issues started to collapse with Musk providing up a collection of updates relating to the bout on his not too long ago revamped platform, X, that Zuckerberg shortly debunked. One of many largest points ‘The Zuck’ took with Musk’s concepts is that it fully eradicated the UFC, or every other fight sports activities group, from being concerned.
Zuckerberg noticed the combat as a chance to characteristic a few of MMA’s largest names and elevate the game like by no means earlier than. Musk seemingly disagreed and took to petty insults and threats on social media earlier than the rivalry inevitably fell by the wayside.
Dana White Casts Doubt on Musk vs. Zuckerberg Struggle
Addressing the standing of the billionaire beatdown, Dana White instructed that it may have been the most important charity occasion within the historical past of the world.
“It might have been the most important charity occasion ever held in historical past,” White stated throughout an look on OutKick The Morning with Charly Arnolt. “Particularly for one evening and it could have helped lots of people.”
Requested if he believes whether or not or not the combat will occur sometime, White stated:
“I don’t know. I by no means say by no means, however most likely not.”
Whereas most combat followers are most likely respiration a sigh of reduction on the information, the actual fact stays that Musk vs. Zuckerberg may have been an enormous charity occasion, to not point out a chance for combined martial arts to succeed in an viewers like by no means earlier than.
