Looks like a “Gladiator” sequel could possibly be within the making.
An official from Italy’s ministry of culture has reportedly reached out to Twitter and Tesla head Elon Musk and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to coordinate a fight on the historic Colosseum in Rome.
The Post has asked for confirmation from the ministry.
In response, Musk, 52, entertained the concept by tweeting, “Some likelihood fight happens in Colosseum.”
Each tech moguls have been training with Lex Fridman, a man-made intelligence researcher at MIT who hosts the “Lex Fridman Podcast.” He also practices Brazilian jujitsu and holds a first-degree black belt in the game.
After Musk tweeted earlier this month that he could be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Facebook co-founder shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.”
Zuckerberg’s team reportedly passed on the message to Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White, whose people contacted Italian officials, in keeping with TMZ Sports.
Italy’s ministry of culture told the outlet in a public statement: “If Zuckerberg and Musk desired to perform within the Colosseum they’d must make a non-violent challenge.”
However the outlet is doubling down saying sources with direct knowledge confirm again … the Ministry first reached out to Mark Zuckerberg privately, then the request was forwarded to Dana White, the president of UFC. There was a follow-up and a call was set for next week.
Musk’s Colosseum tweet was in response to this.
They reportedly offered up the two,000-year-old venue as a battleground for the techies’ “cage fight.”
Considered a wonder of the world, Musk continued to up the hype around having the fight on the Colosseum, quoting Russell Crowe’s character within the film “Gladiator,” who famously tells his troops before battle, “What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg, 39, has been training in MMA gyms since September with the hopes of competing, he revealed on June 17. In a May Instagram post, Zuckerberg revealed that he won his first amateur Brazilian jujitsu tournament.
Musk, nevertheless, may back down at the recommendation of his mother.
His 75-year-old mom, Maye Musk, declared that she may be very much against the concept of her son getting hurt within the ring.
She took to Twitter this week to share her opposition to the matchup and told people she “canceled the fight.”
“Don’t encourage this match!” she wrote to podcaster Fridman.
In one other tweet, she wrote: “Actually, I canceled the fight. I haven’t told them yet. But I’ll proceed to say the fight is canceled, just in case.”
There has yet to be confirmation that the spectacle has been scheduled.
Maye later suggested an alternate.
“A verbal fight only. Three questions each. The funniest answers win. Who agrees?” she proposed.
The Post has reached out to Musk and Zuckerberg for comment.
If the historic amphitheater seems to be the situation, it might be the primary time in a whole bunch of years that a fight has been staged at the sector.
The 50,000-capacity stadium is the most important ancient amphitheater ever built, and remains to be the most important standing amphitheater on the planet, despite its age. It frequently saw fights to the death between gladiators nearly 2,000 years ago. Today its ruins can host only a number of hundred people, and stage live shows as a substitute of battles.
In 2003, Sir Paul McCartney performed an exclusive charity show contained in the Colosseum for an intimate audience of 400 individuals who paid as much as $1,500 each. Other than that, all other live shows have taken place outside the structure.
