WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Walks The Octagon As UFC Ring Girl And All Male Fans Can Do Is Start Ranking Her Against Other Octagon Girls
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By Jerome London
And men immediately began to compare her with Chrissy Blair and Brooklyn Wren, a veteran of the Octagon Girls working on the same card, and judged how she combines.
Cunningham was sitting on the curb one night when he jokingly told Dana White that if he ever needed a crying girl, let him know. About eight minutes before Paddy Pimblett vs. Benoit Saint Denis co-main, put him on the Round 1 card.
“When he comes in, he goes, ‘Oh, I want to get around that.’ I said, ‘Then you’re going to go with it,'” White told reporters. She kicked off her shoes, stepped out in a black tank top and shorts, and snapped her signature finger across her thigh. Pimblett choked Saint Denis in less than a minute, so he only got one trip.
This piece started after a basketball account sent us a note that she was working as a ring girl. Then the level started fast and became dull. Male fans rallied against the real Octagon Girls working the card, especially veterans Chrissy Blair and Brooklyn Wren, with early responses calling her “the least attractive out there tbh” and placing her last next to the women working the cage every fight.
Pushback followed, with fans retorting that a professional athlete’s eight-minute notice goal against the regular Octagon Girls didn’t prove anything, but most of the series still treated it like a live beauty pageant.
A second series of protests broke out as Cunningham caught a pass that Angel Reese would never catch. “If Angel Reese did this white people would go crazy,” read one post, dragging Reese into a fight he had no part in.
Cunningham called the night “a lot of fun” and said she and White have become friends. “I love Sophie Cunningham, and we’ve developed a relationship,” White said. The next night he showed up at the Fever’s game against the Las Vegas Aces wearing a custom Cunningham shirt with a middle finger flip.
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