Overview
- Dana White told reporters Saturday night that he spent about two weeks negotiating a legitimate MMA match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
- White said the Colosseum asked for roughly $150 million to host the event and that the money would go into a fund to restore Italy’s iconic sites.
- White described the venue fee as the key roadblock and said he would still promote a Colosseum card if someone covered the cost.
- Mark Zuckerberg publicly wrote that Musk “isn’t serious” about the bout, and 2023 reporting on formal Italian government involvement was mixed and sometimes contradictory.
- With the venue demand, mixed participant signals, and time elapsed since initial talks, the fight is now widely viewed as unlikely without new commitments even as UFC pursues other spectacle locations and commercial ties with Meta.