I hated Mt Ordeal simply because I liked Black Knight Cecil more.
I was gonna create a guilty pleasures thread but I figured this would work just as well.
I do love me some tough enough though. Pro Wrestling is great, for a few hours a week I can totally shut down and laugh my ass off at the hilarity of it all. Dudes in their underwear pretending to fight. Plus the other 10% spent yelling "HOOOOOOLY SHIT! What
was that?/Who
is that?/I haven't seen him in
forever!!!"
But WWE brought back Tough Enough recently, and it is my favorite hour of television every week. It revolves around something I love and grew up with, but combines it with feeding a PASSION. You can tell who's there for show and who
really fucking wants it. You also see just how physically demanding it all is. Really is incredible.
ESPECIALLY if you think wrasslin' is DUMB (which it is, quite frankly) I suggest you check it out. It really good stuff and ol' Stone Cold has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more Springtime Of Youth in him than I thought. EASILY my fave part of each episode is his Bottom Three, and he grills them for shitting away an awesome opportunity.
Really the only stuff I don't like is the more reality based house stuff, which thankfully does not get a lot of screen time. Not that it's over the top, just not neeeearly as interesting or inspiring.
I can't even help nodding my head with the horrendous intro theme. I do dig the chorus, don't hate...
Some clips, I hope you watch not only to make me feel special and appreciate "the biz" but REALLY just to get INSPIRED!!! GET FIRED UP:
A Bottom Three:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwShcyS6Ec0&feature=relatedA LEGEND and ring training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkH4JAhxK24&feature=relatedAnother Bottom Three...you cantell the guy Matt wants it. But he needs to GRAB IT!!! GRAB IT!!!! You can just tell Stone Cold made up his mind as soon as dude said "Permission to speak." He was good and he wanted it, but you gotta GRAB IT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWCdiHbL8ykOpening theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sf4uhC43RwIn the middle of all my boo-hooing lately I still managed to get immediately booked for two more shows even with the biggest and most beautiful and ongoing distractions of the last couple years staring me in the face, laughing at the jokes I wrote about them and how they shat on me. Wait, did I just get mini-pissy about someone laughing at my jokes???
Now go be a champion.