- The much-hyped cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg didn't materialize last year.
- But Musk said it would've been a "short fight" if it had taken place.
Elon Musk didn't get to fight Mark Zuckerberg last year, but he reckons it would have been a quick one if it had taken place.
On Wednesday, Musk said he was accepting Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro's challenge to a fight. Maduro issued the challenge on Monday after Musk repeatedly accused him of committing election fraud in the recent presidential elections.
Venezuela's opposition has disputed Maduro's reelection victory, claiming that their candidate Edmundo Gonzalez won instead.
I’m coming for you Maduro!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2024
I will carry you to Gitmo on a donkey https://t.co/RB5qltxsYI
But Musk couldn't resist taking a shot at Zuckerberg while talking about his odds against Maduro.
"Maduro is a big guy himself and probably knows how to fight, so this would be a real fight," Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday. "Zuck is a little fella, so that would be a short fight lol."
This wouldn't be the first time Musk has discussed fighting a foreign country's leader.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Musk challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to "single combat" over Ukraine.
Musk would later offer a handicap to Putin, saying that he will "use only my left hand" if Putin is afraid to fight.
Representatives for Musk and Zuckerberg didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
Musk first challenged the Meta CEO to a fight in June 2023 following speculation that Zuckerberg's company was building its own competitor to X. Meta would later unveil a new text-based social media platform, Threads, in July.
The fight, however, didn't take place despite Musk's and Zuckerberg's bluster and trash talk.
"If he ever agrees on an actual date, you'll hear it from me. Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on," Zuckerberg wrote in a Threads post on August 11.
That hasn't stopped Musk from bringing up the cage match every now and then.
When Musk visited Capitol Hill in July to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, he told reporters that he would fight Zuckerberg "any place, any time, any rules."
"Are we really doing this again?" Zuckerberg said in a Threads post in response.