Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg offered Rome’s Colosseum as cage fight venue ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )
Elon Musk is now offering Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta, $1 billion to rename Facebook, in yet another spectacular attempt to change the company’s name.
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The billionaire was replying to an article on the satirical news website BabylonBee that claimed Musk had offered Mark Zuckerberg $1 billion in exchange for renaming Facebook.
It would be a lot better name, Musk said, thus confirming the proposition.
It’s worth noting that tensions between the two digital behemoths have already erupted, with rumours of an upcoming cage fight between Zuckerberg and Musk becoming viral earlier this year. The much-anticipated fight hasn’t happened yet, though, since Zuckerberg said in a Threads post that the owner of X wasn’t serious about the fight.
How it started
To provide some context, the notion that the two billionaires would battle originated when Elon Musk, 52, issued a challenge to Mark Zuckerberg, 39, on X (the old Twitter). In response, Zuckerberg said, “Send me the location,” on Instagram.
Though Musk acknowledges that his first tweet was a jest, this June interaction started a verbal duel that seems to have no end in sight.
Shortly after daring Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, tweeted that he would be up to a cage battle in Las Vegas with the jiu-jitsu-trained CEO of Meta. The two billionaires exchanged training session images throughout the course of the following few weeks. Musk said on Twitter in July that the battle may occur at Rome’s famed Colosseum. It never happened, of course, but the tweets became increasingly strange.
Some chance fight happens in Colosseum
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2023