{"id":834604,"date":"2026-07-29T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:31:10","slug":"jon-jones-reveals-why-f1-star-lewis-hamilton-called-him-a-coward-blocked-him-on-social-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834604\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones reveals why F1 star Lewis Hamilton called him a coward, blocked him on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UFC star Jon Jones <a data-ylk=\"slk:posted a video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKKZ_6gFfm_\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" 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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I went hunting years ago with bunch of army rangers, and we ended up hunting pigs from a helicopter from using AR-15s,&#8221; Jones said in an interview with <a data-ylk=\"slk:ALF Global;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3bjnnvg9Lqg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ALF Global<\/a>. &#8220;I was so proud of myself &#8217;cause I killed one of the pigs from the helicopter. My pig was donated to an underprivileged family in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;But Lewis saw me shoot the pig from a helicopter,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Jonny Meat on Instagram: &quot;One shot, one kill, lots of bacon. Was an honor hunting with medal of honor recipient @t.payne75 &amp; @jeff_cotto @mattcronrath @operational_defense_institute&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKKZ_6gFfm_\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonny Meat on Instagram: &#8220;One shot, one kill, lots of bacon. Was an honor hunting with medal of honor recipient @t.payne75 &amp; @jeff_cotto @mattcronrath @operational_defense_institute&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jones did not have a chance to respond, though, because Hamilton apparently blocked him on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He unfollowed me, and he blocked me,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;And 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&#8217;re listening, I&#8217;m sorry, bro. I&#8217;m sorry. Won&#8217;t do it again.&#8221;<\/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":834605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[291300,49,48,578,576,577,1866,932,82],"class_list":["post-834604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-army-rangers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-jon-jones","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834604","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=834604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}