Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg ‘dead serious’ about octagon fight, claims UFC boss Dana White after talks with pair

DANA WHITE said Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are "absolutely dead serious" about fighting each other after holding talks with them.

The tech billionaires agreed to a bout online when Musk, 51, tweeted: "I'm up for a cage match if he is."

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And Facebook boss Zuckerberg, 39, replied: "Send me location." Which is a nod to UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov.

It did not take long for UFC president White to get involved, having already held talks with both social media moguls.

He told : "I was talking to both Elon and Mark last night, both guys are absolutely dead serious about this."

White revealed Zuckerberg was the first to contact him, asking if new Twitter owner Musk truly wanted to fight.

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And having had the green light from both, he predicts the celebrity fight would be the biggest of all time, topping Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor.

White said: "This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world.

"Bigger than anything that's ever been done, it would break all pay-per-view records, these guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity.

"And you don't have to be a fight fan to be interested in this fight, everybody would want to see it."

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Mayweather beat UFC superstar McGregor in 2017 in a crossover super-fight that sold 4.3m PPVs and made around £600m.

White similarly held talks in 2019 for pop icon Justin Bieber to fight Hollywood's Tom Cruise although it never materialised.

Zuckerberg opens as a bookies favourite over Musk, having competed in jiu jitsu and trained in MMA before.

But Musk insisted to White that he has also trained martial arts before, leaving the promoter ready to make the match.

He said: "Listen, if these guys are serious, I make fights that people want to see, that's what I do for a living.

"So, if they really want to do it and they're serious and we can figure out a way to pull this off, I would absolutely, positively do this."

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