Jon Jones has shared footage of him saying goodbye to his new friend, Hasbulla.
The UFC heavyweight champion is currently in Thailand filming a reality TV show with Nate Diaz.
During his trip, ‘Bones’ has been hanging out with 3ft 4in social media superstar Hasbulla Magomedov.
On Sunday, Jon Jones uploaded a video showing the two men bidding each other a fond farewell.
Jon Jones launches Hasbulla into the air
In the footage, Jones and Hasbulla can be seen playfully wrestling with Jorge Masvidal in the background.
Things got weird when the greatest fighter in MMA history lifted Hasbulla into the air like a baby.
Jones grinned from ear to ear as he spun the diminutive 22-year-old around in a circle to make him dizzy.
“I told @hasbulla.hushetskiy it’s time to go home and as you can see he was very upset #brothers,” he captioned the viral video.
Fans took to the comments to remind Jones that Hasbulla is not as young as he appears to be.
“That’s a whole grown man champ,” one person wrote. While another added: “That’s a 20+ year old man.”
“Bro just casually picking up a grown-a– man like a child,” a third fan commented.
“Him and Mike Tyson think he’s a 5-year-old child,” someone else fumed.
“That’s a grown ahh man. Champ does what he wants though,” a fifth Instagram user laughed.
“2 legends,” former UFC star Muhammad Mokaev added.
Mike Tyson recalls meeting Hasbulla
In a recent interview with Andre Ward, Mike Tyson told the story of when he met Hasbulla.
Famous footage shows Tyson treating Hasbulla like a child, which led to fans speculating that the heavyweight boxing legend was unaware that the Russian superstar was an adult with a form of dwarfism.
“I thought it was a baby,” Tyson admitted in November 2024.
“And then he started punching me…that’s how I am with children.
“I was hugging on this guy, and he’s like 26 years old. I knew nothing at all!”