Italy ‘invited Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to their cage fight at the Colosseum in Rome’

A modern-day gladiator fight could be taking place at the Colosseum in Rome between billionaire tech bosses Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, according to one report.

An Italian government official is said to have offered the 2,000-year-old site a few days ago as the battleground for the historic cage fight between the Twitter owner and the Facebook founder.

The culture minister reportedly contacted Zuckerberg about organizing the head-to-head at the landmark, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

In what went viral, Musk tweeted on June 20 boasting that he’s “up for a cage match if he is,” to which the Meta boss commented on Instagram “send me the location.”

Now the tech tycoons may have agreed on where to host the clash TMZ sports reporting that both would like it to go to the Colosseum.

While Italian media reports that the government has declined to offer the location, Musk added to the speculation this morning by tweeting, “A chance fight is taking place at the Colosseum.”

An Italian government official reportedly offered the 2,000-year-old site as a battlefield for the historic cage fight (file image)

The Italian Minister of Culture is said to have contacted Mark Zuckerberg. Pictured: Zuckerberg enters a tournament

Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the challenge on June 20 via Twitter, but there is no confirmation yet that it will go through

TMZ reported that Zuckerberg’s team passed the message on to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White, whose people contacted the Italian minister.

Musk continued to hype around the fight, citing Russell Crowe’s character in the cult film Gladiator, General Maximus, who famously told his troops before the battle, “What we do in life echoes in eternity.”

His movie references didn’t end there, he tweeted out a skit from the Monty Python movie Life of Brian featuring the remains of slain gladiators in the Colosseum with the caption “needs to work on my stamina.”

However, it is uncertain whether the fight is still on as Musk’s 75-year-old mother, Maye, states that she is very much against the idea of ​​her son getting hurt in the ring.

She took to Twitter this week to share her opposition to the matchup, telling people not to encourage it, saying she “cancelled the fight.”

Although both men have trained in different forms of combat, there is no confirmation yet that the spectacle is planned.

“Don’t encourage this game!” Maye wrote in response to podcaster Lex Fridman, who seemed happy with the planned fight between the two billionaires last Thursday.

In another tweet, she wrote, “Actually I canceled the fight. I haven’t told them yet. But I will continue to say that the fight is called off, just in case…”

Elon Musk’s mom is worried about her son’s safety and told people not to encourage this match between him and Mark Zuckerberg before joking that it was canceled

Musk, pictured wrestling sumo, challenged the Meta CEO to a cage fight on June 20 and he replied the next day asking him to “send me location”

The next day, Maye proposed an alternative to physical combat, one that consisted only of words.

“Just a verbal fight,” she suggested. “Three questions each. The funniest answers win. Who agrees?’

Musk, 51, is by far the richer of the two and is both heavier and taller than Zuckerberg, 39, but the Meta founder poses a serious threat due to his deep passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Musk, 51, is by far the richer of the two and is both heavier and taller than Zuckerberg, 39, but he poses a serious threat due to his great passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Pictured: Zuckerberg competes in a tournament in Redwood City, California on May 6

Musk suggested the fight with Zuckerberg on June 20 in a tweet, saying, “I’m up for a cage match if he’s having fun.”

The Facebook founder, who recently had success in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament, seemed to agree with him the next day.

He shared an Instagram story with a screenshot of Musk’s tweet and wrote “Send Me Location,” a catchphrase associated with MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov.

If that location does indeed turn out to be the amphitheatre, it would be the first time in hundreds of years that fighting has taken place in the historic arena.

In its heyday, the 50,000-capacity stadium regularly saw fights to the death between gladiators – but now the ruins could only hold a few hundred people and concerts are held instead of battles.