Big Rob Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011...-return-on-usa/ Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillerTwist Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Something to look forward to post-Wrestlemania. I'm sure this will spell the end of NXT too, which is not a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Didn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 3, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 In fairness, time has never been better to re-introduce the format, what with the WWE Champion and his top contender being former Tough Enough contestants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Dammer Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Yeah the programme has served them well and it only went down hill when they changed the format and removed the 'reality' side of things by having it as an add on to SmackDown I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmcstyles Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I cant remember fully but wasnt it just bout the same as the Ultimate Fighter tv series? Bar a fight they just cut someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Well if NXT is anything to go by then I can see Tyler Black winning it before he gets his release like Low Ki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rob Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Well if NXT is anything to go by then I can see Tyler Black winning it before he gets his release like Low Ki. Tyler Black has a contract, he won't be on Tough Enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I can hear the endless 'inspirational' vignettes filled with soppy cock rock from here. Could be somehting to look foward to but I would rather they kept NXT as it is at least in the format of a traditional wrestling show more or less and it made sense of years of pointless C level shows ... at least for a little while. But who knows, Tough Enough could be more or less that with a few tweaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Sloan Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Didn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.P. Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Instead of auditioning and taking contestants 'off the street' ala previous Tough Enoughs, what I would find interesting is if this series was to actually accurately depict the FCW farming system and either pick contestants from the genuine tryouts that FCW hold, or make the competition using people already training at FCW (so along the lines of NXT, but obviously this time genuinely being 'unscripted', like previous Tough Enoughs). This would seem much more genuine and consistent with the WWE product, kind of the like the Ultimate Fighter is to UFC, than doing the whole 'anyone can audition' thing, which to me devalues the real world difficulty of actually getting anywhere near the WWE develomental system, and breeds that whole mentality of people not paying their dues etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Well if NXT is anything to go by then I can see Tyler Black winning it before he gets his release like Low Ki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fye Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Yeah the programme has served them well and it only went down hill when they changed the format and removed the 'reality' side of things by having it as an add on to SmackDown I think. Â I totally agree with this, I hope they keep Tough Enough and Raw as totally separate programmes and have no cross over at all. Tough Enough seemed real and edgy when it first debuted but became a forerunner to NXT by the time Puder and co were in. I have no doubt that the successful Ultimate Fighter and boxing's contender were inspired by the original Tough Enough format but they went in the wrong direction with it. The Morrison / Capotelli initiation thing with Dreamer was fine as that was after the winners were announced but other than that I think TE should be entirely its own entity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Well if NXT is anything to go by then I can see Tyler Black winning it before he gets his release like Low Ki. Tyler Black has a contract, he won't be on Tough Enough. Â Sure I read somewhere that along with auditionees from outside WWE they are actually offering developmental talents the chance to audition too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestlescotland Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Do we know who the trainers are going to be? Think Regal would be cracking in the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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