Thus, giving some idiot a rifle with a scope, and having him shoot at a stationary Cheetah that is not attempting to flee, would not attack, and would allow the hunter to get relatively close, is not hunting NEITHER is it sporting.
Hunting a deer or antelope that would split at the first rustle of a blade of grass is sporting (and also hunting). Trying to hit a goose or grouse is sporting, since it does take some modicum of skill(and anyways, there is food).
Going into the bush armed with a bow and hunting for bear ....you cannot eat the bear, but that is sporting. Or the type of hunting that used to be done in the olden days ....camping for weeks on Safari, double-bore heavy rifle, trudging in heavy miombo woodland after the spoor of a wounded Cape Buffalo, not knowing whether it is hiding in the thicket BEHIND you waiting to charge. Or the hunting of leopard and lion (both dangerous cats to hunt in the olden days), knowing that even with a bullet through its heart it can still reach you before its death throes.
Nowadays, the only dangerous cat to hunt is the leopard .....they are hard to get, and if you miss they can easily get you. Not even lions are hard these days ....too used to humans, and they just lay on the ground basking in the sun without a care. I've driven in the Masai Mara a few feet away from lions several times, and in each they didn't even look at the vehicle! I could probably have shot them through the eye with a .22
Anyways, killing a Cheetah with a scoped rifle is not hunting ....it is not sporting ....it is simply killing. The equivalent of killing a fly using a rubber-band.
If those guys wanted to prove their manhood they should have done it the maasai way ....grab a spear when you get to your teens, head to the bush, engage a full grown lion, become a man!