Paul-Tyson ring girl splits how fans thought she was part of ‘staged’ fight after Mike Tyson slap

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 needed 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% authentic from beginning 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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Tyson slapped Paul atraverse the face at the weigh-in, saying Paul had stepped on his toe. Several people needed to split Tyson from Paul, causing a melee on the stage.

Fans pointed to the ring girls behind them, who proceedd to pose and smile, as evidence that it was all deliberate. But Sydney Thomas, who has since cforfeitly doubled her social media adhereing, says they had no choice but to not react.

“I was so shocked that it happened. I was not anticipateing 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 change what you’re doing. You’re presumed to be in the background of all the pictures and not have these big reactions,” Thomas tgreater Fox News Digital in a recent intersee. 

So, Thomas had to retain her chilly.

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“I’m appreciate, ‘Oh! He fair slapped him!’ But I have to hgreater this smile the whole time. In my head, I’m appreciate, ‘No way. But retain 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 authentic. The models in the back didn’t even react.’ They were saying it was on us for the reason why it was seeing so counterfeit, becaengage 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 dangering their entire company, and we would be dangering our entire lives to do that,” Bidarian tgreater Fox News Digital last week. “It is preposterous that people even recommend 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.”

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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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