(KRON) – While a highly-anticipated proposed fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg never came to fruition, those who want to see Musk use his fists may get their wish. On Wednesday, Musk accepted a challenge to a fight from Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela.
Musk had been publicly critical of Maduro, who was recently declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election. Thousands of Venezuelans have protested the result of the election, and Musk went as far as to accuse Maduro of election fraud.
In a public address, Maduro fired back at Musk, saying in Spanish that he went “off the rails.” He also told Musk that they could settle their differences physically.
“I am not afraid of you,” he said in Spanish. “Let’s go at it. Wherever you want. As we say in Caracas in the neighborhoods, if you want it, I want it, Elon Musk.”
Musk accepted, but apparently doesn’t think this fight will happen.
“He will chicken out,” the Tesla CEO tweeted.
He continued to tweet about the situation, suggesting that he, Maduro and Zuckerberg enter a ring with only one emerging. He even proposed stakes for the fight.
“If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela. If he wins, I give him a free ride to Mars,” he said.
But Musk did give Maduro props, saying he is a “big guy” who probably knows how to fight.
News of Maduro challenging Musk to a fight comes about a week after Musk told a reporter that he’s still willing to fight Zuckerberg “any place, any time, any rules.” Musk was visiting Capitol Hill at the time, where he attended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Zuckerberg, however, didn’t seem so interested.
“Are we really doing this again?” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
