True. I don't know how old you are. But in the 80's there was a TV show called Star Search. It's known more for the people that lost the show and went on to become stars. While the winners went nowhere. Some of the famous losers on Star Search were comedians Sinbad, Ray Romano. And pop singer Britney Spears
success isn't guaranteed, WWE provides you with the opportunity to showcase your talent to their audiences, they train, accommodate and promote these guys.
They were selling an extra TV show to the networks and getting additional money from the phone votings. Also it is cheap additional promotion for WWE. If the guys on the show turn out to beThey Miz, Johny Mundo or EC3 - great, they've created a star, if not they can get rid of him easy enough.
Season 6 tough enough proved how much the WWE Universe were just trolls, bc they absolutely chose the worst of the worst, having ZZ almost win, and Sara Lee actually winning, luckily tho, Mandy Rose and Patrick Clark got it good
The 1st season was the best one IMO and I always thought Maven had the most potential out of all the winners, but sadly he burned out pretty quickly. Also, I can't believe the 1st season happened way back in 2001.. I was only 20 years old when it premiered. Now I'm pushing 40. Time flies..
I'll always have a soft spot for Maven. Here in Ohio, I had been up for a few days, and was very lethargic, and dehydrated. He noticed how uncomfortable I looked (nearly passing out) and immediately went into his gym bag, and gave me a Gatorade. He sat with me, until I was good to go. I had him sign the bottle, and we briefly stayed in touch, after.
Cameron told Steve Austin on Tough Enough that her favorite wrestling match was Melina vs. Alicia Fox. I'll never forget the HORROR of that moment and the fact that after that STUPID answer WWE still hired her. Sad.
First of all she's female and is more likely to pick a diva match. Secondly, she personally knew Alicia Fox. And lastly, she was caught on the spot. Most cannot pick a favorite match right away. The first match that popped into my head isn't my favorite match (but at least it's a well known good one)
Andy Levine had immense potential. However, it was pretty clear he lacked the confidence and the guile to really hustle behind the scenes. His confidence issues aside I think the "guile" factor is a major factor as to why most don't succeed in the WWE. If you've worked your ass up from smaller promotions and learned the business you are much more prepared. These kids are pretty fresh and bang! Put into the big show. Being a good wrestler simply isn't enough. There are so many angles and players involved in Pro Wrestling and the WWE it's pretty ruthless.
@@jeffplan3419 Miz came second in the 2004 competition behind Puder, but is probably the most successful Tough Enough contestant ever. That year's competition also featured Ryan Reeves, who would later become Ryback.
Patrick Clark from the last season is starting to pick up some serious steam as The Velveteen Dream. He always warned Josh that he wouldn't make it without having true passion for the business even if he won Tough Enough. Big Josh is gone. Velveteen Dream, on the other hand, is turning into a license to print money. Dude's really starting to put all the tools together that make a great sports entertainer--Charisma, Size, Athleticism, Storytelling, and Work Ethic.
Only two issues I have there are firstly, if he will be able to properly fit his gimmick into the more family friendly main shows and second, if once on the main roster he can avoid the dreaded touch of death that the main roster has meant for so many promising NXT talents. I have to say he really showed his potential at Takeover recently and I loved the play on the Rick Rude Gimmick with the tights, never mind the fact he and black put on what I felt was easily one of if not the best match of the night. I have to say though I didn't expect Elias to take off the way he did so you never know what might happen.
Patrick was my pick to win from the start the guy had genuine passion for the business and also had the most ability out of all contestants. Knowing how much of a mark he was in tough enough I cannot be more happier at the steam he has picked up as the dream 👍🏻
I remember i met Maven once at a meet&greet. i was like 10. he stood there chewing a piece of gum with his glasses on. Acting like he was the shit. On a side note, Batista was there too with his daughter. She's fine!
More often than not, it seems that the people who participate in "Tough Enough" and don't emerge victorious are the ones who end up having far better careers in the long run, than the people who do win.
There was 1 guy who failed during his audition for the first season of Tough Enough...just a few years later, WWE recruited him anyway & he became The Boogeyman
The last Tough Enough actually had alot of guys and women with potential. Patrick Clark was really the standout and is proving that he should've won with his match with Alestair Black.
I remember seeing the ad for tough enough coming back in 2011 and I remember telling my dad that he should of tried out for it....he’s 50 but boy did it make him happy that I said it’d be cool to see him as a wwe wrestler
this just goes to show that the key to success in the WWE is going on tough enough, and coming in second. josh mathews, the miz, and mandy rose all coming in second. and all had a larger, more successful, career then the winners of their respective years.
rest in peace, matt cappotelli. i'm incredibly sorry you had to suffer, even though you were one of the better ones on that train wreck known as tough enough. hope you're finding joy in the afterlife.
Wouldn’t mind seeing a video on the success stories of Tough Enough competitors. Or even some of the somewhat memorable guys and girls who didn’t win, but left an impression in a similar format.
i prefer the tough enough competition being exposed for the joke that it is. daniel puder and andy leavine were the biggest examples of how stupid the whole thing has been. neither one of them ever had even a single one on one match in the wwe after they won the thing. puder didn't get the million dollars that the contest was supposed to pay him, and andy leavine probably got financially screwed over in that same way since he was also released only a year later as well. a million dollars over the course of up to four years, yet they could be released after only a year, making them get only a fourth of it, that made the thing dishonest, but i guess all of the contestants knew that before they agreed to be in the contest, but it still made it dishonest. they may as well have made it a million dollar contract over the course of 40 years where they get only $25,000 per year while they were at it since almost no wrestler would never last that long in the wwe, so they'd likely get screwed out of the million in full. hulk hogan debuted in the wwe in november of 1979, so if you count hulk hogan as still being in the wwe even though he's only there once in a while these days, it still hasn't been 40 years yet since it's currently february of 2019. just think, if daniel was 23 when he won the thing, then he would have had to have waited until he would be 63 by the time he'd get that million in full. the wwe may as well have just made it that way while they were at it if the winner wouldn't be automatically guaranteed that million after they would win, despite them how they would go through all the crap that the wwe would throw at them, including having people like big show and kurt angle give them a hard time. if they would make it a 30 year contract where the winner would only get $33,3333.33 per year, then think of the undertaker. he debuted in the wwe in november of 1990, so he still hasn't been in the wwe for 30 years yet. imagine the undertaker getting only $33,333.33 per year all this time time since 1990. imagine hulk hogan getting only $25,000 per year all this time since 1979. it'd be a joke, and that's exactly what the wwe tough enough contest is.
A success story would include them at least winning a major title like the WWE title or World Heavyweight Championship or Universal title. As far as I know, John Morrison has been the most successful WWE Tough Enough winner that there has ever been, and yet he never won any of those major titles. And yes, I know, I'm only talking about the Tough Enough winners, meaning, that it might not have been in the winner's best interest to have won the thing if them winning it was going to mean that they would achieve less success than someone who they beat in a Tough Enough competition.
@jdawg matt morgan went from wwe to tna wrestling impact wrestling a few yrs later. i thought he was going to win tna world title from jeff hardy in 2009. it was not meant to be. it is shame though since jeff hardy was on drugs in his tna world title match vs sting tna 2011 victory road ppv. blue print matt morgan would have been good tna world champion. he became tna world tag team champion with former orignal lax member supermex hernadez in 2010.
good for him. however, i think the majority of the contestants haven't exactly done all that well for themselves later on. he may have been an exception.
To view things in a cold objective light, it seems like many of them were washouts in terms of wrestling. However, hopefully, many of them had better times and fulfillment after leaving the squared circle.
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First1it1Giveth kurt angle would have either tapped or gotten a shoulder out of place if the ref wasn't smart enough to do a 3 count on daniel and pull them apart. 8-0 as a pro mma fighter. id say he could have taken on 99% of the locker room (1 on 1 not all together lol)
Randolph Defreese there's no denying he is good but he has no charisma and he basically killed his own career before it even started with that comment.
@LSDB- The thing in question wasn't his athleticism nor his martial arts ability/ wrestling skills. I don't know his entire resume with those things but I'm sure he was gifted. The point being made was his attitude that kept his WWE career on the ground.
John Hennigan not only competed in LU but also won their 3 singles championships. Also competes in AAA were he is the reigning Mega Champion & in the up & coming indie promotion PCW in California where he was the Heavyweight Champion. Then of course competes for Impact Wrestling having yet to win a championship.
What people didn't about pruder was that during that segment with kurt, he almost legit broke kurts arm, on top of that winning TE he thought he was tough shit, cocky as hell in the locker room, he got so much shit for that he had change OUTSIDE the locker rooms
Here's a fun fact about Maven. He's billed from Charlottesville, Va (my home town) but nobody I've ever talked to around town even knows who he is, aside from a few 'rasslin' fans who've claimed to meet him but I take these claims with a grain of salt.
Why did you correct yourself? Kimura is the right submission name. Maybe you're confused cause he secured it from bottom where a lot of guys like going for it from top? Kimura locks in with your palm on the topside of their wrist like puder had. And a Keylock/Americana is locked in with the palm on the bottom side of the wrist. And each torques in a different direction.
^ Seriously, that pissed me off. Gigi had been winning challenge after challenge only to be voted off by the fans because they loved their nerdy Sarah Lee.
@eddie LM it is kinda of how majority half of american voters vote for preisdent or gov or politcans at preisdential level on peronsonilty if they person is likeable from bill clinton barack obama etc personailty test. i vote on voting record what ur going to do for country not personailty. same with wrestlers in wwe or voting for american idol. divasearch was worst thing ever.
Daniel P had the IT factor but he was very cocky and the 250k wasnt enough for him , sometimes you gotta start at the bottem man, Salute Miz and John for successful careers
I think if your trying to be a real wrestler tough enough is the worst way to go lmao, if u win you have so much pressure to be great but usually never works out
I hate to say this though...one of my Pals was a Indie Worker in Ohio and he auditioned for the Show...they asked him all kinds of Crazy Crap at the Audition like "If you liked one of the Female Contestants and she didn't like you would you cry about it?" And he was telling them "I'm a Indie Worker! I've already been through School! I can Work!" They didn't give two poops. Very strange how their audition Process went.
They didn't care if people had prior experience or not. Wrestling for WWE is a whole diffefent beast. It's also been said that they actually preferred those with no experience so they can program them easier rather than making them learn a whole different style.
