{"id":834510,"date":"2026-07-29T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:31:09","slug":"jon-jones-reveals-why-f1-star-lewis-hamilton-called-him-a-coward-blocked-him-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834510\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones reveals why F1 star Lewis Hamilton called him a coward, blocked him on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UFC star Jon Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKKZ_6gFfm_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a video<\/a> of him killing a pig in 2021 and that led allegedly to a long message from Formula 1 legend Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jones was living life after vacating his UFC light heavyweight title at the time \u2014 and bulking up to eventually move to heavyweight \u2014 when he went on a helicopter ride to shoot at pigs alongside former rangers. Hamilton, who had just won just 7th world championship in Formula 1 months prior, apparently didn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI went hunting years ago with bunch of army rangers, and we ended up hunting pigs from a helicopter from using AR-15s,\u201d Jones said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bjnnvg9Lqg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALF Global<\/a>. \u201cI was so proud of myself \u2018cause I killed one of the pigs from the helicopter. My pig was donated to an underprivileged family in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBut Lewis saw me shoot the pig from a helicopter,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe wrote me a long message saying that I was a coward, and that he thought that I was better than that. He said that the traditional way of killing animals should be with a spear or a bow and arrow. And he was saying like, only a coward would shoot an animal from an helicopter, to give the animal a chance to fight you back, at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jones did not have a chance to respond, though, because Hamilton apparently blocked him on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe unfollowed me, and he blocked me,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnd it sucked because I was his fan. I was a fan of him, but he was very disappointed for shooting the pig. So Lewis, if you\u2019re listening, I\u2019m sorry, bro. I\u2019m sorry. Won\u2019t do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC star Jon Jones posted a video of him killing a pig in 2021 and that led allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,701,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-834510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}