10 Times Wrestlers Were Spooked FOR REAL
7. Bob Holly Scares The Tough Enough Cast Straight
"Why don't you give me the trainees?"
"And then what?"
"And then I'll beat everybody!"
Or not really, but you'd believe it if Bruce Prichard explained it on a long form podcast all about the making, production and execution of Tough Enough 3.
WWE wrestlers always had something of a strained relationship with the MTV reality, based mostly on the distrust and ruthless capitalism that has almost always defined everybody to ever enter the industry. The trainees were typically given a rough run of it by the wrestlers that visited filming, all under the guise of "respect" and "paying dues" and all that other sh*te us mere mortals will never understand and the most normal of us are probably terrified of.
It was in a filmed-and-then-edited training match where Holly roughed up Cappotelli, in a match that divides opinion between those that felt it reasonable wrestler-level roughhousing and those that saw it as an abuse of the sacred trust between performers.
What it was, regardless of which side anybody takes, was a micro-battering that trainee (and eventual co-winner Matt) looked terrified to be taking.