Paul-Tyson ring girl shares how fans thought she was part of 'staged' fight after Mike Tyson slap

Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) made definite to nix immoderate speculation that the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson combat was compromised successful immoderate capacity, but successful lawsuit you needed much evidence, 1 of the ringing girls from that nighttime is giving it.

MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital that the combat was "100% existent from opening to end."

The speculation was already contiguous good earlier the fight, but 1 infinitesimal that prompted fireworks led to adjacent much speech of imaginable staging.

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Mike Tyson slaps Jake Paul during their weigh-in, Nov. 14, 2024, successful Irving, Texas. Ring miss Sydney Thomas is shown astatine left. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Tyson slapped Paul crossed the look astatine the weigh-in, saying Paul had stepped connected his toe. Several radical needed to abstracted Tyson from Paul, causing a melee connected the stage.

Fans pointed to the ringing girls down them, who continued to airs and smile, arsenic grounds that it was each planned. But Sydney Thomas, who has since astir doubled her societal media following, says they had nary prime but to not react.

"I was truthful shocked that it happened. I was not expecting that astatine all. … But our occupation arsenic lawsuit models is to basal determination and smile, we’re not truly expected to react. You’re not expected to alteration what you’re doing. You’re expected to beryllium successful the inheritance of each the pictures and not person these large reactions," Thomas told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. 

So, Thomas had to support her cool.

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are separated during their weigh-in, Nov. 14, 2024, successful Irving, Texas. Ring miss Sydney Thomas is shown astatine left. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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"I’m like, ‘Oh! He conscionable slapped him!’ But I person to clasp this grin the full time. In my head, I’m like, ‘No way. But support smiling! They’re taking truthful galore pictures, this moment’s going to spell truthful viral. I got to beryllium looking bully backmost here!' That was my thought process.

"A batch of people, too, had drawn a enactment [and] said, ‘This has to beryllium staged. There’s nary mode that’s real. The models successful the backmost didn’t adjacent react.’ They were saying it was connected america for the crushed wherefore it was looking truthful fake, due to the fact that we didn’t react. That’s our full job. We’re paid to basal determination and smile. We’re nonrecreational astatine it. We’re not going to person these reactions. It was shocking, but that’s our job."

MVP ripped immoderate conception that the combat was rigged successful immoderate form.

"If you were to rig specified competition, it is simply a national crime. And myself, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, executives from Netflix would each beryllium going to jail. They would beryllium risking their full company, and we would beryllium risking our full lives to bash that," Bidarian told Fox News Digital past week. "It is preposterous that radical adjacent suggest that this was successful immoderate mode thing different than a nonrecreational fight. … That was not the lawsuit successful immoderate Jake fight, fto unsocial this one."

Sydney Thomas poses successful the ringing during Paul-Tyson. (Raphaela Milagres)

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Thomas precocious deed 1 cardinal followers connected TikTok and boasts much than 750,000 connected different societal media.

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