10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Bill Demott
10. That Weird Tough Enough Moment
Bob 'Hardcore' Holly's rough treatment of Tough Enough III winner Matt Cappotelli sparked controversy online and lead to widespread condemnation of Holly as a 'bully' in 2003. Holly, for his part, has spoken out against Cappotelli for crying on television after the incident since it was, at the end of the day, 'just a black eye and a bloody lip'. Bill DeMott was one of the trainers on season three of Tough Enough and saw the whole incident unfold. When the group had a house meeting after the Holly episode, DeMott got serious for a minute and looked like he was about to break down in tears as he explained some things about life on the road. DeMott said:
'there are motherf*****s who are going to push your buttons...every night on the road, people push my buttons, I wanna kill 'em. Because as a man, I've swallowed more than my share. The bigger men swallow s*** that they don't wanna swallow. You can chose to beat it, or to let it beat you'
He gave this speech while looking like a man who was experiencing Vietnam flashbacks, such was the intensity of the look on his face and in his eyes. Whether he was prompted by producers to give the pep talk is unknown, but it was certainly a very intense and disturbing moment that came from out of nowhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW6_0H44aQw