PLEASE GO HOME…
These are the four competitors I really could do without; be it their personality or just a total lack of potential.
Mada: The L.A. did one thing consistently on the season premiere – he talked trash. He talked a lot of trash. His introduction was a small clip of him saying Tanner, who had just beat him by a mile in the first competition, didn’t have what it took to be a WWE Superstar. Then he didn’t like Tanner’s attitude. Then he got beat again in the bodyslam challenge, by Tanner. His entire contribution to this episode was being jealous of Tanner. I will say, Mada redeemed himself slightly in Tough Talk, when he mentioned his baby crawled for the first time and he wasn’t there to see it, but instead of wanting to go home (lookin’ at you Dianna) he said it motivated him to do the best that he could.
Hank (Eliminated): He had no presence in the show, good or bad. The saying goes, it doesn’t matter what reaction you get, just get a reaction, and he did nothing memoreable. When he had a chance to save himself at the end, he does nothing but talk about how ZZ has a big heart and that he could end up winning. He literally calls himself an “Average joe” as a way of saying he was fighting for the every-man, but Dusty Rhodes fought for the every-man and there is no one on the planet that will call Dusty an “Average Joe”.
Dianna: From the opening seconds of the show, Dianna established herself as a vanilla “model” and “athlete” with nothing to offer except that she was hopelessly lost without her fiance waiting for her at home. When you’re full-time with WWE you are on the road 300+ days a year; if you can’t make it through a single week of training without breaking down on TV, you shouldn’t be there. On top of all that, it comes out that she’s hurt. Not only is she hurt, but she makes the cardinal sin of ANNOUNCING that she’s hurt to everyone, including the trainers, prior to a morning workout. How she wasn’t even in the bottom three is an absolute miracle (read: reality TV marketting ploy).
Alex: There was virtually nothing redeeming about Alex during both Tough Enough and the Tough Talk aftershow. He has one of the best looks and builds of anyone there, yet I have almost nothing written down about him in my notes. Another guy that was jealous of Tanner’s success. What really annouyed me was his attitude about ZZ and Tanner getting their hair braided by the girls. He made snide remarks during the show about them not being “tough enough” – like making friends with the ladies and having some fun (after kicking all the guys’ asses, by the way) makes you somehow less of a man. And then he voluntarily brought it up AGAIN during Tough Talk. Alex can take his antiquated, borderline sexist viewpoints back to the farm in Dallas where he grew up.
