5. Sinking Fast
Last week Tough Enough made Worst of the Week, and it's come back for another round. The show that trains hopeful wrestlers has little to do with actual wrestling. If you watch Chopped, they cook food. On Project Runway they design clothes. On Tough Enough they swim in an alligator filled swamp. Could Andre the Giant, Yokozuna, or Doink the Clown swim? I have no idea, but that didnt matter within the context of professional wrestling. Multiple judges gave one of the contestants a hard time for dropping a belt while swimming. They tried to make it the equivalent of not bringing the title with while touring. Nope. Not the same thing at all. Ryback keeps his Intercontinental Title in a suitcase...not around his waist while swimming with a creature that could eat him! It made the judges seem more like jerks than anything. Also, WWE loves to make it seem like our voices matter, but we, as fans, should NOT be voting. We see a condensed, approximately 30 minutes worth of footage of what happened over the past week. We have no idea how good these potential wrestlers are inside of a ring, or how much charisma they may have behind a microphone. Its just who annoys us the most, and then we dont vote for them. By the same token, Hogan, Paige and Bryan shouldnt have a vote either! It would make sense for Billy Gunn, Lita and Booker T to kick people off, because they're actually training with them. The show would easily be more entertaining by getting rid of every judge and just having Steve Austin yell at the contestants for an hour. Can we still do that?
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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