The current and former CEOs of two major social metier companionship – MetaandTwitterrespectively – have agreed to campaign each other in a John Milton Cage Jr. .

Yesterday , Elon Musk responded torumorsthat Facebook is creating a Twitter - like political platform .

ⓘ IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from extraneous sites .

A Twitter drug user warned Musk that Zuckerberg is train in warriorlike artistic production , to which Musk responded – likely in jest – that he would be up for a combat .

So far , so stupefied – but then 39 - year - old Zuckerberg , who haswon medalsin Brazilian jiu - jitsu , posted to Instagram necessitate for Musk to send a location for the match .

Muskrespondedto the spot that " if this is for real , I will do it " . Unfortunately for Musk , and fortuitously for anyone who wants to see two tech billionaires wail on each other , Zuckerberg ’s invitation is serious about the invitation , as corroborate byThe VergeeditorAlex Heath .

A lot of multitude are root for the cage .

Musk has since answer to Heath , bring up the Vegas Octagon as his favored venue . However , it ’s not altogether too clear whether he will go ahead with it , as he acknowledges he is perhaps not in peachy physical consideration .

" I almost never work out , except for break up up my kids & throwing them in the air , " he wrote in onetweet . " I have this great move that I call ' The Walrus ' , where I just dwell on top of my opponent & do nothing , " he total inanother .

Musk , 51 , is not without engagement experience , according to previous interviews with the tech billionaire in which he said he had had fights develop up in South Africa .

“ I ’ve been in real hard - core street fights , ” Musk assure theFull Sendpodcast . “ I got beaten up real badly in a few of them , actually . ”

Musk claimed that citizenry stopped trying to amaze him up " because it did n’t work out well for them , " tally " they tried , and I strike hard a guy out . "

We may shortly see if those same moves work on a Brazilian jiu - jitsu - trained man 16 years his Jr .