The latest situation about the cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is curious. In fact, it all started with Elon Musk jokingly posting on his social media platform Twitter, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta’s CEO, Zuckerberg, stating that he was “ready for a cage fight”. interestingly progressed…
After Musk’s ready message, Zuckerberg, who studied Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and recently won Jiu-Jitsu tournaments, shared a screenshot of Musk’s tweet on his story and wrote the following sentences: “Send me a location”
From that point on, things got even more interesting.
WILL THE BILLIONARDS CAGE FIGHT AT THE COlosseum?
Now, the Colosseum claim has come for a possible cage fight that will bring two of the world’s most famous tech billionaires against each other.
According to the news of the BBC; The claim that the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum, where gladiator competitions were held in Ancient Rome, could be the scene of a fight between two billionaires was put forward by Elon Musk himself.
“There is a possibility that the fight will take place in the Colosseum,” Musk said in a message he shared on his Twitter today.
ALLEGED “TO ZUCKERBERG FROM ITALY MINISTRY OF CULTURE”
Some US-based news sites also claimed that the Italian Ministry of Culture made an offer in this direction to Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta company, which includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“This news will blow your mind: an official from the Italian government contacted Mark Zuckerberg to arrange his fight with Elon Musk on the world’s most legendary battlefield: at the Colosseum in Rome,” wrote TMZ Sports.
In the news, it was claimed that the person who brought this offer to Zuckerberg was an official from the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Upon the spread of the news, criticism began to come in Italy on social media and in the press.
Some social media users, reminding the reactions of a tourist who carved his name on the Colosseum a few days ago, argued that it was worse for the government to make such an offer.
EXPLANATION FROM ITALY MINISTRY OF CULTURE
The Italian Ministry of Culture, on the other hand, stated that the news was baseless.
In the statement, “There is no official contact or sending of written documents by the Ministry. Even though the news looks delicious, it is unfounded.
Reminding that the Colosseum can be rented for special events such as charitable works, the Ministry emphasized that the management of the Colosseum Archaeological Park evaluates the requests and that the decision is not theirs.
On the other hand, it was also stated that Musk and Zuckerberg could face each other in the Colosseum if there was no violence, and some of the income could be donated to Italy.
The following statements were included in the ministry’s statement:
“If Zuckerberg and Musk want to perform at the Colosseum, it should be a non-violent encounter, like a duel (certamen) with Latin strings. And they must make an appropriate economic contribution to the preservation of the Italian historical heritage and for example the region of Emilia Romagna (where the flooding took place).”