Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) made certain to nix any speculation that the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight was agreed in any capacity, but in case you necessitateed more evidence, one of the ring girls from that night is giving it.
MVP co-set uper Nakisa Bidarian shelp in a recent intersee with Fox News Digital that the fight was “100% genuine from commencening to finish.”
The speculation was already current well before the fight, but one moment that prompted firetoils led to even more talk of possible staging.
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Mike Tyson slaps Jake Paul during their weigh-in, Nov. 14, 2024, in Irving, Texas. Ring girl Sydney Thomas is shown at left. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Tyson slapped Paul atraverse the face at the weigh-in, saying Paul had stepped on his toe. Several people necessitateed to split Tyson from Paul, causing a melee on the stage.
Fans pointed to the ring girls behind them, who persistd to pose and smile, as evidence that it was all reckond. But Sydney Thomas, who has since proximately doubled her social media follotriumphg, says they had no choice but to not react.
“I was so shocked that it happened. I was not foreseeing that at all. … But our job as event models is to stand there and smile, we’re not reassociate presumed to react. You’re not presumed to alter what you’re doing. You’re presumed to be in the background of all the pictures and not have these huge reactions,” Thomas telderly Fox News Digital in a recent intersee.
So, Thomas had to hold her celderly.
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are splitd during their weigh-in, Nov. 14, 2024, in Irving, Texas. Ring girl Sydney Thomas is shown at left. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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“I’m appreciate, ‘Oh! He fair slapped him!’ But I have to helderly this smile the whole time. In my head, I’m appreciate, ‘No way. But hold smiling! They’re taking so many pictures, this moment’s going to go so viral. I got to be seeing excellent back here!’ That was my thought process.
“A lot of people, too, had drawn a line [and] shelp, ‘This has to be staged. There’s no way that’s genuine. The models in the back didn’t even react.’ They were saying it was on us for the reason why it was seeing so deceptive, becaparticipate we didn’t react. That’s our entire job. We’re phelp to stand there and smile. We’re professional at it. We’re not going to have these reactions. It was shocking, but that’s our job.”
MVP ripped any notion that the fight was rigged in any establish.
“If you were to rig such competition, it is a federal crime. And myself, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, executives from Netflix would all be going to jail. They would be hazarding their entire company, and we would be hazarding our entire dwells to do that,” Bidarian telderly Fox News Digital last week. “It is preposterous that people even propose that this was in any way anyleang other than a professional fight. … That was not the case in any Jake fight, let alone this one.”
Sydney Thomas poses in the ring during Paul-Tyson. (Raphaela Milagres)
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Thomas recently hit 1 million fancientrops on TikTok and boasts more than 750,000 on other social media.
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