Sydney Thomas has now revealed what her biggest dream in sports would be a week after she went viral as one of the ring girls during the fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
Thomas wants to continue her modeling career by appearing in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Many women from the world of sports will appear in the 2025 edition of the magazine.
Among those who will grace the magazine’s pages in swimsuits are Cameron Brink, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Gabby Thomas and Eileen Gu.
Thomas’ desire to join them one day comes with his admission that he has “contacts there.” according to TMZ.
Thomas also revealed that he would have missed the event if it had taken place on the original July 20 date.
Viral ring girl Sydney Thomas has declared her sporting dream of appearing in Sports Illustrated
Thomas has had more than her 15 minutes of fame since being Paul-Tyson’s ring girl.
“They contacted me and found me through social media for the original fight that was supposed to happen over the summer, and I was going to be in Europe when that was going to happen, so I had to turn it down.” said Thomas.
‘And I was very sad about it, and I wanted to do it so badly. But then Tyson got hurt, so they rescheduled, and then it turned out I was still going to do that fight. That’s how it turned out. “I didn’t apply for anything, but they had just contacted me.”
Paul ended up fighting MMA star Mike Perry in July, knocking him out, which he couldn’t do against Tyson.
The ring team of Thomas, Lexi Williams, Raphaela Milagres, Virginia Sanhouse and Delia Sylvain are considered by some to be the real winners of the Netflix mega-event.
Each of them has expanded their social media following in the seven days since the fight.