Italy ‘has invited Meta Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner, Elon Musk, to stage their cage fight at Rome’s Colosseum.
An Italian government official reportedly offered up the 2,000-year-old venue as a battleground for the historic cage fight between the Twitter owner and Facebook founder a few days ago.
The Minister of Culture is said to have reached out to Zuckerberg about staging the head-to-head at the landmark, which is one of the seven wonders of the world.
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age.
Musk, on June 20, tweeted that he was ‘up for a cage match if he (Zuckerberg) is’, to which the Meta boss responded on Instagram ‘send me the location’.
Now the tech tycoons may have come to an agreement on where to stage the clash, with TMZ Sports reporting that both would love for it to go down at the Colosseum.
The website reported that Zuckerberg’s team passed on the message to Ultimate Fighting Championship President, Dana White, whose people contacted the Italian Minister.
While both men have trained in different forms of fighting, there has yet to be confirmation that the spectacle has been scheduled.
The 51-year-old Twitter owner is by far the richer of the two and is both heavier and taller than Meta CEO, 39, but he poses a serious threat, due to his keen passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
If that location does indeed turn out to be the amphitheatre, it would be the first time in hundreds of years that a fight has been staged at the historic arena.
In its heyday, the 50,000-capacity stadium regularly saw fights to the death between gladiators – but now its ruins could only host a few hundred people and it holds concerts instead of battles.
