Lewis Hamilton branded UFC champion a “coward” after airborne pig hunt

Two-division UFC champion Jon Jones has revealed an interplay with Lewis Hamilton during which the Formulation 1 ace known as him a “coward”.

The interplay occurred in 2021 after Jones posted a video on Instagram of him taking pictures a pig from a helicopter.

Jones had gone “looking”, he wrote within the caption, with some US troopers from the Military Rangers.

“One shot, one kill,” the Instagram put up, which continues to be public on Jones’ profile, reads.

“Was an honor looking with medal of honor recipient Patrick Payne & Jeff Cotto.”

Jones revealed the not-in-person interplay with Lewis Hamilton, during which the British F1 driver known as him a “coward” and blocked him on social media, extra just lately.

“I went looking years in the past with a bunch of Military Rangers and we ended up looking pigs from a helicopter utilizing AR-15s,” Jones stated in an interview with AFLGlobal. 

“I used to be so pleased with myself as a result of I killed one of many pigs from the helicopter and my pig was donated to an underprivileged household in the neighborhood.

“However Lewis noticed me shoot the pig from the helicopter. 

“And he wrote me an extended message saying that I used to be a coward. And that he thought that I used to be higher than that. 

“He stated that the normal method of killing an animal ought to be with a spear or with a bow and an arrow. 

“He wrote one thing like, ‘Solely a coward may shoot an animal from a helicopter. Give the animal an opportunity to combat you again no less than’.”

Jones added: “He unfollowed me and he blocked me, and it sucked as a result of I used to be his fan.

“I used to be a fan of him, however he was very dissatisfied in me for taking pictures the pig. Lewis, when you’re listening, I am sorry.”

Ferrari driver Hamilton, who was at Mercedes on the time the video was posted by Jones, has lengthy been an animal rights advocate, and transitioned to a plant-based food regimen in 2017.