The owner of Twitter, the first person of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk will still meet with the head of Meta (activity companies (social networks Facebook and Instagram) banned in Russia as extremist) by Mark Zuckerberg in the octagon. The parties still agree to a sports duel, and in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) they have already planned everything and are quite rubbing their hands in anticipation of a fabulous profit.
The Coliseum is waiting for the gladiators
At first, this news seemed like a joke for social networks. Then — a planned action to promote the already large-scale names of Musk and Zuckerberg. Now, after two weeks of discussions and the release of the newsbreak to new and new levels of hype, it becomes clear: things have gone too far. In 2024, we may indeed see Americans in a cage.
True, the usual cell Musk and Zuckerberg was not enough. The men, realizing the grandiosity of the show, decided to go beyond the stadium. So Musk chose Las Vegas… the Colosseum arena in Rome. He made such a statement on social networks, and then published an excerpt from the comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian, in which the battle takes place just in the Colosseum. The crazy idea, as the press wrote, was supported by Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, who phoned Musk and Zuckerberg and offered an ancient monument-museum as a location for the tournament.
This has not been seen within the walls of the Colosseum for twenty centuries.
br>Something in the language of the rich
But seriously, only one city can take the fight. Not Rome, not even New York. This is Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) with its main arena T-Mobile. UFC President Dana White, who is doing interviews on TMZ and The Pat McAfee Show with might and main, will definitely insist on this point on the map of the States — after all, Sin City and its stadium are the main location in a prestigious organization.
And as Zuckerberg hones his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills and Musk trains and poses for photos with UFC Hall of Famer Georges St-Pierre, White continues to reveal details of the 300 Main Event -th numbered tournament, which will be held in the first half of 2024:
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"The fight is an exhibition fight, it will not be controlled by the athletic commission. But there are still many things to work on. They both want this fight… I think this fight will be the biggest in history. If the cost-per-view is a hundred dollars, as it most likely will be, then these guys will raise hundreds of millions of dollars that will go to charity. fight. In addition, the lack of doping control and the formal work of the referees can be assumed (if the fight does not end ahead of schedule, the fight will be declared a draw). However, at the moment this is just a guess.Khabib and McGregor's record is in danger
The UFC has a stranglehold on the superfight. It is difficult to come up with another such fight that will go beyond the MMA community and absorb people who are far from the concepts of «parterre», «submission», «low kick». Consequently, the world's premier promotion will gain even greater brand awareness and several million pay-per-view (PPV) sales that will dwarf the best in league history.
br>Recall what they were:
UFC 229 / Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor (2.4M PPV);
UFC 264 / Dustin Poirier vs. Conor McGregor III (1.8M);
UFC 202 / Nate Diaz — Conor McGregor II (1.65M);
UFC 246 / Conor McGregor — Donald Cerrone (1.4 million).
It is highly likely that the crazy numbers in the boxing match between McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will not stand. White claimed that the number of PPV sales in the summer of 2017 exceeded 6.5 million.How to show. Looking for a sporting component in this is as pointless as trying to see the chances of success for ex-UFC champion Francis Ngannou in a boxing confrontation with Tyson Fury. This is not even pop MMA, but a real freak show, which has both pluses (it really popularizes the sport, excellent advertising for mixed martial arts) and minuses (look at how «thanks» to the blogger brothers Paul blurs the line between the teenage » movement» and professional boxing).
But, no matter how much you spit on the Musk vs. Zuckerberg fight, it will be oh so difficult not to turn on the broadcast and, on principle, not to watch a resonant fight.
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A few opinions about the «Fight of the Century»
- AMC Fight Nights Head Kamil Gadzhiev in conversation with :
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"I support the initiative in every possible way. I, as a representative of the martial arts industry, am personally interested in the fact that as many people as possible pay attention to our craft. Thanks to the likes of Zuckerberg and Musk, this is possible. Cool story. As for freaking: well, there is such a raid … But at the same time, the scale of the personality is such that they can be forgiven for everything, even the inability to fight. By the way, I think that when they get into the cage, they will already make great progress in sports, because Zuckerberg is doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu. About Musk, you can say: a talented person is talented in everything.
Promoter Vladimir Khryunov — in the comments to the agency:
“You can only take this fight seriously when Zuckerberg puts Facebook on the line, and Musk puts Twitter on the line. And so far, this is not serious. From a marketing point of view, the fight is certainly interesting, but only for a Western audience. cities, most do not even know what Zuckerberg and Musk look like. If the fight was held here, we would have to further promote it. For example, send one of them to train with Nikolai Valuev. And so, God bless them. Their activity increases interest to martial arts and a healthy lifestyle».
Elon Musk's father(Fortune Magazine):
«If this crazy fight happens and if Elon beats this guy, then the son will be called a bully because he is much heavier and taller. Lose? It will be a complete humiliation. That's why it's a no-win situation for Elon.»
- UFC title contender Sean O' Mallie on social media:
«I would watch this fight. I think it will be a super hype, but at the same time a pathetic sight. It will be a battle of two white, completely unathletic guys. It's like two math students had a fight. I don't know … I would watch, but all this doesn't really bother me.»
- Famous UFC referee John McCarthy (Weighing In):
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«I'll tell it like it is. Recently, damn Dana White said, «We don't do freak fights.» That's the point! First he says one thing, and then something completely different. Dana always does only what she can earn on … However, if this is not a freak fight, then what is it ?! The duel will be the most shameful spectacle. It's like watching the sex of old people.»
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