WWE Tough Enough Review: Episode 1
The sixth season of Tough Enough began on Tuesday night and with a completely new format.
The show opened up with Chris Jericho and his co-host Renee Young, introducing the judges, Daniel Bryan, Paige, and Hulk Hogan. Hogan gets a full entrance with clips from his career playing. This was kind of like a take on American Idol or Dancing with the Stars, where the judges were seated at a desk. But unlike those other shows, the judges would be watching the same show we are watching at home, but on a big TV, and be making their decisions based on thing that happened during the week prior.
The format is just weird. You won't get the people to be authentic because they will know that the judges will be viewing the tapes and making decisions. So what will happen is, everyone will start putting on an act, 24/7, t try to impress the judges. I don't know about this at all.
Jericho asks the judges what they are looking for – Daniel Bryan says he is looking for someone with heart, Paige is looking for someone who stands out, while Hogan is looking for “The It Factor”.
The first challenge that took place a few days prior was the contestants had to run from one end of the field to the other three times, wearing a training parachute, then lift a bag filled with sand that weighs their own body weight and climb to the top of the stadium. Booker T, Lita and Billy Gunn are the drill sergeant encouragers.
The winner is Tanner the former MMA fighter who is pretty confident, ranging to cocky about how great he is. ZZ, the big white meat baby face gator wrestler, comes in last.
After the challenge, they introduce the contestants to their new home at the performance center; most are less than pleased with the “military style” accommodations. Everyone then immediately goes out drinking, leaving the underage ZZ and Patrick behind.
Back to the live show, they introduce each of the contestants, and then cut back to the group out at a club. Gabi shows off her skills on a stripper pole. The group returns and a couple of the girls join them, but ZZ quickly drives them off after he takes off his trunks. Idiot. Smh.
The contestants are awoken bright and early at 6:00 a.m by Billy Gunn for push-ups and running. Again, Tanner is ahead of the pack and ZZ is bringing up the rear. I don't think cardio is the big fellas forte. Tanner talks trash to the other guys while getting his hair braided. People are really tired of hearing him talk shit.
The coaches then go through some basics, including running the ropes, and picking people up and body slamming a bag. The next challenge will include both skills. More trash talk as the coaches ask each person how many times they think they can run the ropes and then lift a sandbag and slam it. Tanner says he can double each of the other contestant’s number, which pisses that rest of the contestants off.
Patrick goes off on him and say just because he's an MMA fighter, doesn't mean he will be a good pro wrestler. He accuses him of trying to make a name for himself doing this and make money, then run back to MMA. I loved that fire.
They show clips of each person going through the challenge, the men’s average score is 8, and Tanner finishes with 16. Dianna, who was complaining earlier about possibly injuring her pelvis, still finished ahead of the female pack, with 17.
Dianna’s fiancé picks her up and they go off together. The other women take the opportunity to talk trash about her, saying she doesn’t belong and that she won’t be able to last the entire competition. Gabi calls her on it the next day and Dianni and her get into a blow up.
More trash talk between the guys, with Patrick and Tanner getting in each other’s face. I like Patrick. The guy seems like he really loves this business and is serious about respecting it and busting his ass to be the best. He calls Tanner on his cocky ways.
Back to the live studio, the contestants are grilled by the judges. Hulk Hogan asks Dianna if she’s the next Diva, or a trophy wife, pointing out that she got very emotional earlier when speaking about her fiancé. Paige calls out Hank for commenting that ZZ is the least fit there, including the women. Daniel Bryan asks Daria about taking risks in her life, which she danced around teh answer forever. Geez.
The judges choose the bottom three. Hulk Hogan chooses ZZ, Daniel Bryan chooses Hank, and Paige chooses Josh, and then Jericho opens up the live voting.
The bottom three are allowed thirty seconds to cut a promo on why they think they should stay – this is done after the voting is already finished. SO DUMB. Each judge is given a chance to use their save for the season, and each judge declines. Hank is eliminated with 22% of the vote, while Josh got 26% of the vote and ZZ got 52% of the vote.
The show ends with ZZ inviting Hank to visit him if he’s ever in Louisiana. Chris Jericho then invites everyone to go to the WWE Network for Tough Talk with The Miz.
It was ok.
The show opened up with Chris Jericho and his co-host Renee Young, introducing the judges, Daniel Bryan, Paige, and Hulk Hogan. Hogan gets a full entrance with clips from his career playing. This was kind of like a take on American Idol or Dancing with the Stars, where the judges were seated at a desk. But unlike those other shows, the judges would be watching the same show we are watching at home, but on a big TV, and be making their decisions based on thing that happened during the week prior.
The format is just weird. You won't get the people to be authentic because they will know that the judges will be viewing the tapes and making decisions. So what will happen is, everyone will start putting on an act, 24/7, t try to impress the judges. I don't know about this at all.
Jericho asks the judges what they are looking for – Daniel Bryan says he is looking for someone with heart, Paige is looking for someone who stands out, while Hogan is looking for “The It Factor”.
The first challenge that took place a few days prior was the contestants had to run from one end of the field to the other three times, wearing a training parachute, then lift a bag filled with sand that weighs their own body weight and climb to the top of the stadium. Booker T, Lita and Billy Gunn are the drill sergeant encouragers.
The winner is Tanner the former MMA fighter who is pretty confident, ranging to cocky about how great he is. ZZ, the big white meat baby face gator wrestler, comes in last.
After the challenge, they introduce the contestants to their new home at the performance center; most are less than pleased with the “military style” accommodations. Everyone then immediately goes out drinking, leaving the underage ZZ and Patrick behind.
Back to the live show, they introduce each of the contestants, and then cut back to the group out at a club. Gabi shows off her skills on a stripper pole. The group returns and a couple of the girls join them, but ZZ quickly drives them off after he takes off his trunks. Idiot. Smh.
The contestants are awoken bright and early at 6:00 a.m by Billy Gunn for push-ups and running. Again, Tanner is ahead of the pack and ZZ is bringing up the rear. I don't think cardio is the big fellas forte. Tanner talks trash to the other guys while getting his hair braided. People are really tired of hearing him talk shit.
The coaches then go through some basics, including running the ropes, and picking people up and body slamming a bag. The next challenge will include both skills. More trash talk as the coaches ask each person how many times they think they can run the ropes and then lift a sandbag and slam it. Tanner says he can double each of the other contestant’s number, which pisses that rest of the contestants off.
Patrick goes off on him and say just because he's an MMA fighter, doesn't mean he will be a good pro wrestler. He accuses him of trying to make a name for himself doing this and make money, then run back to MMA. I loved that fire.
They show clips of each person going through the challenge, the men’s average score is 8, and Tanner finishes with 16. Dianna, who was complaining earlier about possibly injuring her pelvis, still finished ahead of the female pack, with 17.
Dianna’s fiancé picks her up and they go off together. The other women take the opportunity to talk trash about her, saying she doesn’t belong and that she won’t be able to last the entire competition. Gabi calls her on it the next day and Dianni and her get into a blow up.
More trash talk between the guys, with Patrick and Tanner getting in each other’s face. I like Patrick. The guy seems like he really loves this business and is serious about respecting it and busting his ass to be the best. He calls Tanner on his cocky ways.
Back to the live studio, the contestants are grilled by the judges. Hulk Hogan asks Dianna if she’s the next Diva, or a trophy wife, pointing out that she got very emotional earlier when speaking about her fiancé. Paige calls out Hank for commenting that ZZ is the least fit there, including the women. Daniel Bryan asks Daria about taking risks in her life, which she danced around teh answer forever. Geez.
The judges choose the bottom three. Hulk Hogan chooses ZZ, Daniel Bryan chooses Hank, and Paige chooses Josh, and then Jericho opens up the live voting.
The bottom three are allowed thirty seconds to cut a promo on why they think they should stay – this is done after the voting is already finished. SO DUMB. Each judge is given a chance to use their save for the season, and each judge declines. Hank is eliminated with 22% of the vote, while Josh got 26% of the vote and ZZ got 52% of the vote.
The show ends with ZZ inviting Hank to visit him if he’s ever in Louisiana. Chris Jericho then invites everyone to go to the WWE Network for Tough Talk with The Miz.
It was ok.
