"Someone's getting fired": MMA fans go ballistic as promotion's official account seemingly drops duck emoji in UFC 309 press conference live chat

A hilarious moment happened in the live chat of the UFC 309 pre-fight press conference today. If you check the live chat of the streamed event, you might be confused by the flood of duck emojis fans are left and right.

It happened to be the doing of the UFC's official account, which sent the emoji first, and then everyone followed suit. If the humor is lost to you, the duck emoji is quite significant as fans are accusing the event's headliner, UFC heavyweight king, Jon Jones, of "ducking" his division's interim titleholder Tom Aspinall.

Championship Rounds posted a screenshot of the emoji as first sent by the UFC:

Fans are reacting to this in various ways, with X user @RaymondLee3192 saying:

"Someone's getting fired"

Meanwhile, @Kian_m629 said:

"This is against the rules and Dana has even said nobody in the ufc is allowed to trash talk the fighters or put them down in any way"

Comments on the post. [Screenshots courtesy: @ChampsRDS on X]

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Jon Jones considers fight with Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 "very personal"

In the press conference, the first question thrown was at Jon Jones, who recently made it known that he got upset by Miocic calling him a "b*tch" in the UFC 309 Countdown episode. When asked to clarify these sentiments and whether he still feels the same way, Jones said:

"I feel like Stipe [Miocic] has this, you know, 'everyone likes first responders', you know. I actually respect men and women in the armed forces and law enforcement and things like that. So I made it a point to try to be respectful to him."

Jones continued:

"There's been two scenarios now. First scenario he said my kids will never look at me like I'm an *sshole. That was a direct attack at me and my family and my relationship with my kids. Second attack was him calling me a b*tch. So the respect is a little bit out the window and we'll see that on Saturday...It's very personal to me, yes."

Stipe Miocic responded by saying he doesn't remember addressing Jones' kids in a disrespectful manner. As far as calling the champion a b*tch, the American fighter of Croatian descent said that he merely said it as a form of defending himself. He did say "I'm sorry" after, though.

Watch the exchange here (6:14):

UFC 309 happens this weekend, November 16, inside the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.