Paul-Tyson ring girl Sydney Thomas recalls 'once in a lifetime opportunity,' reveals how she got her start

Sydney Thomas stole the amusement connected Friday nighttime arsenic 1 of the ringing girls for the fights connected the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson paper astatine AT&T Stadium, and connected Monday, she opened up a small much astir herself.

The 20-year-old University of Alabama pupil surpassed the 500,000-follower people connected Instagram implicit the people of the play and thanked those who expressed enactment for her successful 1 of the biggest moments of her young career.

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Sydney Thomas stands adjacent Jake Paul during the weigh-ins held astatine Toyota Music Factory successful Irving, Texas. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Thomas explained successful a TikTok Q&A league that she was discovered done societal media, according to the New York Post. She went connected to exemplary during Miami Swim Week and aboriginal appeared arsenic a ringing miss for a nighttime of boxing successful Puerto Rico.

"Social media was wherever I started out. This summertime I walked successful my archetypal runway amusement during Miami Swim Week," Thomas wrote. "I’ve worked with a fewer brands arsenic good but I deliberation societal media is wherever I’ve recovered the top publicity to beryllium (prior to Paul-Tyson)."

She was besides asked astir her favourite portion of being a ringing miss for the spectacle.

"Being successful the ringing with Mike Tyson for sure," she responded. "It’s a erstwhile successful a beingness opportunity. He’s specified a legend."

Ring girls be "LIVE On Netflix: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson" astatine AT&T Stadium connected Nov. 15, 2024 successful Arlington, Texas. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix)

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She initially broke her soundlessness astir her newfound fame connected Saturday.

"I woke up to an overwhelming magnitude of emotion and enactment from each of you. I can’t convey you guys capable oregon statesman to explicit however grateful I am," she wrote successful a station connected her Instagram Stories. "I emotion you each – convey you for your benignant words."

Separately, she said successful a station she was "honored" to beryllium a portion of the night.

"Getting the accidental to measurement into the ring with @MikeTyson and @JakePaul for specified a historical combat is thing I ne'er imagined I’d beryllium capable to say," she captioned a post. 

"Words can’t picture this infinitesimal oregon however grateful I americium to beryllium portion of specified an astonishing squad astatine @MostValuablePromotions. History was made, and I’m genuinely honored to person been a portion of it."

She rapidly became the speech of societal media.

Jake Paul opens a tin of Celsius during the weigh-ins held astatine Toyota Music Factory successful Irving, Texas, up of his heavyweight bout with Mike Tyson. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

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Thomas was among the "MVP Main Event Models" on with Lexi Williams, Raphaela Milagres, Virginia Sanhouse and Delia Sylvain.

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