Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg ‘Chickened Out’ of Their Proposed Cage Fight

Elon Musk appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience for a wide-ranging interview in which he addressed the proposed cage fight between himself and Mark Zuckerberg. Musk alleged that the Meta CEO was the one who backed out of the battle.

“He’s chickened out. Puck, puck, puck,” Musk said, laconically imitating a chicken. “Italy actually was willing to let us use the Coliseum,” he claimed.

The X (formerly Twitter) owner continued: “I was like, well, can’t turn that down. Then I was like, well, if it’s going to be in the Coliseum, I like UFC and everything, but we don’t have tons of ads in UFC branding on the Coliseum ‘cause it’s a place of great history. You don’t want to have it be all like NASCAR. And then Zuck pulled out.

“He used the pull-out method,” Musk said, cracking himself up.

Musk implied Zuckerberg was scared to face him, telling Rogan he tried to pay an unannounced visit to Zuck’s private residence. “He lives in Palo Alto. He’s like three miles from the Tesla California headquarters. But there was nobody there,” he reported.

“According to a spokesperson, he was traveling,” Musk said. “I just thought it was funny to go, ‘I’m coming over to your house. I’m gonna get ya!’”

While expressing a genuine eagerness to fight, telling Rogan he would duel “literally any time…anywhere, anyplace, under any rules,’” Musk revealed he wouldn’t require any training for the match.

“I’m way bigger than [Zuckerberg],” he reasoned. “A walrus doesn’t need martial arts training, ‘cause it’s really big. If a horse falls on you and dies, you can get trapped under a horse and not get yourself out.”

Musk originally challenged Zuckerberg to a dust-up over the summer, just as Meta was launching its X competitor Threads. “I’m up for a cage match if he is,” Musk commented on a thread. Zuckerberg responded simply by telling Musk, “Send me location.”

In August, Zuckerberg threw doubt on Musk’s intentions. "I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on," he wrote on Threads. "I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.

"If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me.”