Why Oscar De La Hoya Is Hyped Up About the Musk/Zuck Cage Fight

The years-long feud between tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk came to a point last month when Musk challenged the Facebook creator to a literal cage match. Zuckerberg, a passionate jiu-jitsu hobbyist, agreed. 

Though there has been some speculation about the scene of the contest being the Colosseum in Rome, Musk's preferred location is the Vegas Octagon. 

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Predictions about the outcome of the fight have proliferated since it was announced, with many gravitating toward Zuckerberg because of his jiu-jitsu (the CEO won a couple of medals in a tournament in May). 

Oscar De La Hoya, a former boxing champion, has come out on the side of the masses in this conflict. 

"I love that. I'm following it. If they are or want to box inside a ring, give me a call, I will promote it," he said. "I like Zuckerberg because his Jiu-Jitsu is crazy, he looks like he has better coordination. But you can't count out the richer man."

Musk -- the world's richest man by a $30 billion dollar gap -- is worth around $234 billion while Zuckerberg, at number eight, is worth around $110 billion. 

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Zuckerberg and Musk have been feuding in public since 2016. This public-facing conflict got off to an explosive start when a SpaceX rocket carrying a Facebook satellite blew up on the platform. Since then, they've traded verbal barbs over the years, but things began to really heat up when news broke that Meta was working on developing a competitor to Twitter in order to take advantage of the chaos Musk had sewn into the platform (advertisers fled amid a rise in hate speech). 

Musk spent the early days of Threads' successful launch criticizing Meta, Threads and Zuckerberg while his attorneys fired off a cease-and-desist letter that accused Meta of illegally copying Twitter. Zuckerberg, however, seems unphased.

"I'm very optimistic about how the Threads community is coming together," Zuckerberg posted Monday. 

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