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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/23/musk-zu ... llars.htmlMusk-Zuckerberg ‘cage match’ PPV would cost $100, bring in over $1 billion: ‘This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world’
Published Fri, Jun 23 202310:50 AM EDT Updated 5 Hours Ago
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are “absolutely dead serious” about trading blows in the Octagon, and fans will have to pay up if they want to watch. UFC president Dana White on Thursday told TMZ Sports that he spoke with both billionaires about their social media beef this week, which saw Zuckerberg accept a “cage match” challenge issued by Musk on Twitter.
“Mark Zuckerberg hit me up first and said ‘is he serious?’” White told the outlet. When the promoter reached out to Musk, the Tesla CEO told him: “Yeah, I’m dead serious.” White said that he is already in “early stages” of planning how to put on the fight, but didn’t hesitate to play up the excitement he expects the brawl will create. “This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, bigger than anything that’s ever been done,” he said. “It would break all pay-per-view records.”
The tech executives have a history of bad blood, with the fight challenge coming after reports emerged that Zuckerberg’s Meta is working on building a rival to Twitter. While a standard UFC pay-per-view costs $80, White said he would charge $100 for the Musk-Zuckerberg bout. The previous biggest pay-per-view ever was Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather in 2017, White said, which brought in more than $600 million in revenue. Mayweather reportedly took home $275 million after winning, while McGregor walked away with $85 million.
But a fight between Musk and Zuckerberg — the No. 1 and No. 10 richest men on earth with a combined net worth of $340 billion — would easily set a new record, White said. “I think it triples [Mayweather-McGregor],” he said. “There’s no limit on what this thing can make.” The pair likely aren’t looking to add to their net worth from the fight, however. Instead, White suggested they would each battle for a charitable organization of their choice. “I don’t think either one of them needs the money,” White said. “These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity,” he added. White declined to speculate about when the fight might take place, but said he’s ready to make it happen. “If these guys are serious, I make fights that people want to see,” he said. “That’s what I do for a living.”
TMZ:
https://www.tmz.com/2023/06/22/mark-zuc ... ana-white/DANA WHITE: MUSK & ZUCKERBERG 'DEAD SERIOUS' ...
About Fighting In UFC Octagon
EXCLUSIVE 6/22/2023 10:34 AM PT
THE BIGGEST FIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
TMZSports.com
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are "absolutely deadly serious" about fighting each other in a UFC Octagon and it would be the biggest fight in the history of the world, so says UFC Prez Dana White. Dana told Harvey and Charles on "TMZ Live" Thursday he's been talking and texting with Mark and Elon Wednesday night and into Thursday, and says both men want to square off in Vegas. "Talked with Mark and Elon last night, both guys are absolutely dead serious about this," White said.
It all started on Wednesday when Musk responded to a report Zuck was going to launch his own version of Twitter, to which Elon responded, "I'm up for a cage match if he is lol." The Facebook founder got wind of the tweet, and served up a message of his own, writing "Send me location." BTW that's code in the world of UFC for, he's really serious.
So, fight on?? People weren't exactly sure if the men were just messing around... but alas, White says they're not. As for how big the event could be -- Dana believes it would easily be the most-watched fight ever, saying "The biggest fight of all time was Floyd and Conor, I just think it triples that -- it triples what that did, there's no limit on what that thing can make."
Dana's confident both men are capable of handling themselves. Zuck has been in jiu-jitsu competitions recently, and Elon has done martial arts and told Dana he was involved in "plenty of fights growing up in South Africa." DW says the cost for Pay-Per-View would be $100 a pop... it's normally $80 for a UFC fight. Forget about what it would cost to watch it in the arena. Dana expects the fight would gross hundreds of millions of dollars, and the loot would go to charity.
Bottom line... this is no joke. Mark and Elon are serious, and Dana is determined to make it happen.
It's the weekend so this is for fun, but who knows. They are already hyping this up to the moon. This could become a trend: Marjorie Taylor Greene v Lauren Boebert, Warren Buffett v Rupert Murdoch, Mike Lindell v Steve Bannon... Foggy v Sharon Rondeau!
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