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Mark Zuckerberg is losing patience with Elon Musk, well, more so than usual, it seems. According to the screenshot of a text exchange reportedly between the X owner and Facebook founder, Zuckerberg gave Musk an ultimatum regarding the cage match Musk proposed in June<\/a>. Musk took the bait, proposing a showdown in California on Monday.<\/p>\n It’s been a roller coaster of braggadocio since Musk first tweeted that he’d happily fight Zuckerberg, whose Instagram is peppered with posts about his rigorous martial arts training<\/a>. The 38-year-old discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu during the pandemic, ESPN reports<\/a>, and participated in his first tournament in May while competing at 149 lbs.<\/p>\n Musk, who is 52 years old, initially proposed that the two meet at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) venue in Las Vegas but admitted that he needed<\/a> \u201ca lot more training\u201d to meet Zuck in the octagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n As the summer went on, Musk continued to publicly goad Zuckerberg, even challenging him<\/a> to a \u201cliteral dick measuring contest.\u201d Meanwhile, Zuckerberg seemed to lose faith that the matchup would ever happen, telling staffers last month,<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t have any kind of official update on this \u2026 I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s going to come together.”<\/p>\n Last week, Musk announced that the matchup would be live-streamed on X (formerly Twitter), the social network Musk purchased for $44 billion last October. \u201cAll proceeds will go to charity for veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis all came as a surprise to Mark Zuckerberg,\u201d Platformer reported at the time<\/a>. \u201cBehind the scenes, the billionaire\u2019s teams had been negotiating for weeks to nail down details of the fight,\u201d and Zuckerberg’s camp had already proposed the two meet in the ring on August 26.<\/p>\n Shortly thereafter, Musk announced a litany of reasons why he couldn’t fight Zuckerberg then, including that he might need surgery<\/a> to fix an unspecified issue with his neck and back. But a text exchange between Musk and Zuckerberg, which Musk sent to biographer Walter Isaacson on Sunday, suggests that those concerns might have fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nInstagram content<\/h4>\n
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