Last week, former UFC strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk posted an Instagram story with a photoshopped fight poster depicting her wearing a gas mask while standing behind the promotion’s first Chinese fighter, Zhang Weili. The controversial image was in reference to the outbreak of the coronavirus in China and its ongoing spread around the world.
While Jedrzejczyk deleted the post shortly thereafter, it spread across social media over the next 24 hours, prompting Zhang to respond on her own Instagram the following day.
“To make fun of tragedy is a true sign of one’s character. People are dying, someone’s father, someone’s mother, someone’s child.