8. Lose The Non-Wrestling Related Challenges
This season like the ones before it featured an abundance of athletic challenges that had absolutely nothing to do with professional wrestling. This may appeal to the viewers who arent wrestling fans, but ratings numbers would suggest that there arent too many of those actually watching Tough Enough. Theres no reason the audience needs to see these contestants swim through creeks or pretend to be firemen. You can toss out the platitudes about learning to work together and performing under extreme pressure and call these what they are; run-of-the-mill reality competition show stunts that weve all seen hundreds of times on other shows. They add nothing to the proceedings and dont help us determine who might become the next WWE superstar. Going forward, every challenge that the competitors face should be strictly wrestling-based. The promo battles and the like are fine, but if you want to hook more wrestling fans stop with the pointless games and get back to basics.
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