Elon Musk’s dad Errol reveals son’s old neck injury jeopardizing UFC-style cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg
ELON Musk’s proposed cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg has been put at risk by an old neck injury he suffered in a skiing accident, his father has told The U.S. Sun.
The Tesla tycoon, 52, revealed on Monday that he may require surgery and is planning to receive an MRI of his neck and upper back.
Musk said that it could delay the potential battle of the billionaires that he appeared to agree to with Meta CEO Zuckerberg in June.
On Friday, Musk claimed that the fight would be going ahead at an “epic location” in Italy and would be managed by his and Zuckerberg’s foundations.
But Zuckerberg hit back with a post on his Threads social media account, telling fans to “please assume anything [Musk] says has not been agreed on."
He added: “Not holding my breath for Elon, but I'll share details on my next fight when I'm ready.”
Despite lingering questions over whether the tech rivals will ever really duke it out in the cage, Elon’s dad Errol says the neck and back injury is no cheap excuse.
Speaking from his home in South Africa, Errol, 77, said: “Elon hurt himself skiing a while back. He fell at speed.
“It was quite long ago. I was just told 'he's OK.'
“Elon’s a good skier, he learned with me in Austria long ago.
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“We loved water skiing on the Vaal river - slalom, barefoot.
“I decided we'd try snow skiing and went to a ski school near the Stubai Glacier in Austria.
“It was hard to learn but in the end, Elon won at least three first prizes.
“We continued skiing elsewhere, particularly Canada at Mount Whistler.”
Errol added that Elon’s younger brother Kimbal, 50, once suffered an even worse neck injury.
He said: “Kimbal broke his neck but wonderfully he had no spinal cord damage.
“His neck vertebra were fused together and he was out of action for six months.”
Elon and Zuckerberg, 39, have both claimed that they are willing to take part in a mixed martial arts matchup and are in training for the fight.
Musk said on Friday that the fight would be live-streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, and Meta but no date has been set.
The new revelations about Elon’s injury come after Errol told The U.S. Sun in June that he believes Elon has put himself in a "no-win situation" with the proposed cage fight.
He also said the “humiliation would be total” for Elon if he loses against Zuckerberg.
Errol also slammed an AI generated pic of his son as “totally inaccurate” and shared childhood photos to prove his point.
In April, Errol revealed details about his claim to have once bought a share in an emerald business in Zambia, which Elon has disputed.
Earlier this year, Errol told The U.S. Sun that his son is a "force for good" who also believed that the internet would have been invented by the year 1900 if Napoleon Bonaparte hadn’t been defeated.
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And in September last year, Errol admitted to shooting armed intruders in South Africa in 1998 while his then six-year-old daughter Ali clung to his leg.
Also last year, The U.S. Sun revealed Errol’s claim that he had fathered a child with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, and that he had been asked to donate sperm to impregnate high-class women in Colombia.