An old photo of Billionaire Elon Musk fighting a sumo wrestler has gone viral on the internet. The throwback post has left Musk's fans in awe of his physical strength. 


Shared on the microblogging site Twitter by a user @DogeDesigner the caption of the post reads "Elon Musk fighting a sumo wrestler. @elonmusk". In the picture Musk can be seen wearing a robe-like traditional attire and trying to fight a sumo wrestler.


As the post went viral, the Twitter CEO also reacted to the tweet and revealed that he suffered eight years of pain from a crushed disc, following the fight. "-8 years of pain from a crushed disc," wrote Musk.






Since being shared, his tweet has amassed close to 6 million views and several comments.


"How did this seem a good idea at the time?", wrote one of the user on seeing the post.






"Why is Elon wearing a bathrobe instead of the usual Sumo attire? Clearly this hindered his performance", wrote another user.






"Not a smart move!" wrote a third. While a fourth wrote "But why? did he loose some bet ..?".


Musk had shared the picture of himself sumo wrestling last year in response to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's question on whether he had the ability to fight Russian President Vladimir Putin.


"Brother, I wish for you to win of course, but the reality is I haven't seen your kong fu video," he wrote.






The billionaire responded to Zhao with the photograph and wrote, "Managed to throw him, but it cost me smashing my c5-c6 disc & 8 years of mega back pain! Finally, fixed with c5-c6 disc fusion."