People are talking about the thirst traps of Ring Girls paraded for Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul‘s fight.
Fight night. The tension, the sweat, the punches flying and the ring girls. Let’s be honest: sometimes the real action isn’t in the ring, it’s outside the ring, serving looks that could knock you out faster than a right hook from Anthony Joshua.
For the Joshua vs. Jake Paul showdown, the thirst trap energy is off the charts. Forget the fighters for a second, these high-profile ring girls know their job isn’t just holding signs. No, their real job is to make every camera angle feel like a VS Fashion show meets a boxing arena. Tight outfits, killer smiles, and poses that could make even the most disciplined fan momentarily forget why they were watching a fight.
Some people hoping to lower the animosity slightly will be the ring girls, who have been confirmed as Raphaela Milagres, Marissa Ayers, and Journi Carr.
The first two were announced at the end of November and Carr revealed her involvement this week to her fleet of 406,000 Instagram followers.
Carr, 25, an influencer and model from Texas, said she was ‘beyond excited’ to join the crew after boxing chiefs launched a search for a UK-based model – but landed on her anyway.
Milagres, a 30-year-old model from Brazil with 181,000 Instatram followers, has worked as a ring girl at Paul’s fights before.
Aren’t you all loving the ring girls lineup?
Then there’s Ayers, a 22-year-old former gymnast and University of Alabama graduate.
Like Carr, she has 406,000 Instagram fans and around 1.5 million on TikTok. That’s more than the 1.1 million that Joshua boasts.
Carr revealed in an Instagram video how the trident of ring girls were getting on as they smiled and posed at the pre-fight press conference.
So here’s to the real MVPs of fight night: the women set to bring the heat, the sass, and the thirst traps we don’t know we desperately need. Boxing may be a sport, but thirst traps? That’s a lifestyle.
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