White says he was first approached by Facebook’s CEO who asked him, “Is he [Elon] serious?”
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“And I said, ‘I don’t know, let me ask him.’ I asked him [Elon] and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m dead serious.’”
White, who has presided as UFC president since 2001, acknowledged the enormity of the potential bout between two of the world’s richest people.
“This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, bigger than anything that’s ever been done,” White said, by no means understating the event’s magnitude.
“It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity,” White anticipated, going on to note the fight would generate significant general interest.
“You don’t have to be a fight fan to be interested in this fight. Everybody would want to see it.”
Plans for the fight first came together earlier this week when it was reported Facebook parent company Meta was developing a competitor to Musk-owned social platform Twitter.
“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol” Musk responded Tuesday to a commenter telling him he should be careful due to Zuckerberg’s jiu-jitsu training.
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