WWEs latest incarnation of Tough Enough was a disaster, plain and simple. And no, thats not because WWE had to replace one of its judges Hulk Hogan midway through the show. The weird hybrid style of the show large parts were recorded, but the judging portion was live was disjointed and didnt work. The judges apparently only saw what we saw on TV, which was vastly different than every other incarnation, where the trainers are the judges. As far as we know, trainers Billy Gunn, Booker T and Lita had little input in who the bottom performers were. The program itself wasnt well-watched and wasnt nearly as entertaining as its MTV predecessors. The nature of the voting fans via Twitter might have seemed like a great idea to get fans involved via social media, but it backfired dramatically when out-of-shape goofball ZZ and meek plain girl Sara Lee made it to the finals, with Sara Lee winning the womens contract. Consider that runners-up like Mada, Amanda, Daria and Patrick all received contracts afterward (yes, ZZ got one too), and that gives you an idea of what WWE thought of the voting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-B_qKpxSWc Maybe Josh (the mens winner) will turn out to be a star and justify Tough Enough, but it seems like it simply served to put a clown like ZZ on television to make a mockery of the system.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.