Sportsbooks Post Betting Odds for Mark Zuckerberg Vs. Elon Musk MMA Fight

Online sportsbooks have posted odds for a rumored clash in the octagon between tech tycoons Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk amid their bubbling feud. 

Zuckerberg, a 39-year-old co-founder of Facebook and parent platform Meta, and Musk, the 51-year-old Tesla CEO and owner of Twitter, have had their share of back-and-forths online over the years. However, their relationship hit a new level earlier this year when the idea of engaging each other in a UFC-style match.

Vegas Octagon

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2023

It seems as if anything is possible in 2023, and this is only further proof that the boundaries of reality know no bounds.

UFC President Dana White involved himself to try to help create the fight. He said that both men are “dead serious” about locking horns inside the Octagon despite neither having any professional athletic experience.

“This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world,” White said a day after supposedly speaking to Musk and Zuckerberg on the phone. “It would break all pay-per-view records; these guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity, and you don’t have to be a fight fan to be interested in this fight.” 

While there does not appear to be full-blown hatred between Musk and Zuckerberg, their relationship is not a friendly one. The first blow came when Musk’s SpaceX company destroyed a Facebook-owned satellite during a failed launch in 2016. 

Since then, Musk has been on record saying that apps such as Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, negatively impact mental health. He doubled down on that recently when he said that one of his goals with Twitter was to boost “unregretted user time,” which compounds his comments on Zuckerberg’s platforms.

Zuckerberg has not tweeted in over 10 years, and Musk deleted the Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages after data was found to be used wrongfully during the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Zuckerberg picked up MMA after COVID lockdowns and said that it was something he wished he’d done long before. He even picked up two medals at an organized Jiu-Jitsu competition. 

On the other hand, Musk told Joe Rogan in 2020 that he “wouldn’t exercise at all if [he] could.” 

UFC Hall of Fame fighter Georges St-Pierre, who was 26-2 and held world championships in two weight categories, said Monday night that he would help train Musk for the fight against Zuckerberg, taking the anticipation around the rumored battle to the next level.

Ok, let’s do it 🔥🔥

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023

Musk also said last week that he would even be ready for a match inside a steel cage if his opponent wanted.

The Tesla boss has natural physical advantages, with an estimated five-inch height disparity (6’1 compared to 5’7) and at least 30 extra pounds. However, Zuckerberg is in far better shape and participates in fitness challenges such as the Murph (one-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, one-mile run, all while wearing a 20lb vest), whereas Musk said that he typically eats a bowl of ice cream, biscuits, and donuts for breakfast.

I’m up for a cage match if he is lol

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023

So, what are the odds looking like?

Legal sportsbooks in the U.S. have not posted lines for the supposed bout between the two billionaires—but according to offshore books, Zuckerberg is about a -270 favorite, and Musk a +180 underdog.

However, the same bookies feel that it is unlikely a fight materialized any time soon, with there being -700 odds on a fight occurring after, not before, September 2023. 

The most likely result of the fight is for the outcome to be determined by the judges’ scorecards. There are roughly +275 odds of a TKO/KO, and about +267 odds of a submission.