- 6/14/2025
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00:00You
00:30I can give you the rest of your life.
00:41Previously on Tough Enough.
00:42I honestly can say that my reasons haven't changed for wanting to be in the WWE.
00:47Once again, Al Snow and Bill the Big killed us.
00:51But we're gonna get him back.
00:53I'll get you, Al Snow.
00:55That's the best thing we do.
01:00You know, it's the last week of training.
01:08There's five people left.
01:09I don't think there's someone killed.
01:10We're gonna have to really bring everything we do up for it.
01:13Five notches.
01:14It's gotta be way more intense.
01:17I wish we could get inside the trainer's head and see exactly what they're looking for.
01:21There's a lot that goes into being a WWE superstar.
01:24It is their in-ring technique, their personality, and it's that it factor that we look for in
01:29in order to be a WWE superstar.
01:31on the raccoon.
01:38Eric's a machine.
01:39He's very driven, very focused, and very intense.
01:44John could be a tremendous star, he's got the athletic ability.
01:55John was able to stand on the mat and go off shooting star press.
01:59No one has ever been able to pull that off.
02:08John has got talent, he really wants to do this.
02:19Jamie hangs with guys in the ring really well, so she definitely has a leg up in entering
02:24the WWE.
02:34The mat is natural in the ring, has a ton of timing and ability, he truly feels it.
02:53It's tough to go through the many weeks that we go through with these people and then to
03:00lose them, but that's what Tough Enough is about, in the end only to win.
03:06One of my favorite memories of Tough Enough was planting ribs.
03:08There's been a lot of ribbing between us the whole entire time we've been here.
03:11I just remember what you said about me tonight.
03:15When I'm kicking your ass in the ring.
03:22It's all they have.
03:23One.
03:24One.
03:25One.
03:26One.
03:27One.
03:28I'm serious.
03:30I'll get you out, Snoke.
03:31If it's the last thing I do.
03:32Al and Bill actually, they have no confidence in us at all to do any rib against them.
03:50That's why, you know, we're going to get it where it hurts on them.
03:53I came up with the idea to remove the wheels and tires off Al's expedition.
03:58This wasn't going to be an easy task, so at lunchtime everybody else stayed inside and
04:03kind of kept an eye out for me.
04:05All this while Al and Bill and Big are having lunch and they have no idea what's going on.
04:11Get everything up, remove the back two, move to the front, get those off.
04:17So I got it done as quick as I could.
04:19So before our run, we walk outside, Al's kind of got his back to it.
04:25Eric hugs Al and turns in so Al sees his car.
04:30We can walk out of tough enough, getting the last laugh on Al's note.
04:45My friend, you have been got.
04:50I was speechless.
04:55There's only a couple days of training left and, you know, didn't expect anybody as a guest at all were expecting to train.
05:14And of course, standing in the ring is a guy who's been in the business and basically, you know, symbolizes everything that the company stands for.
05:22Get a chair and sit down.
05:24I walk in and I'm taken back by the moment.
05:26Home.
05:27Like, I don't know what to do.
05:32There's one more cut to be made on Tough Enough 3 and you're going to decide.
05:36Log on to MTV.com or ToughEnough.com right now to find out how.
05:41Then tune in next week at 10 p.m. to see who's not Tough Enough.
05:45I'd like to introduce you to one of the guys who inspired me to get into this business.
05:53Without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to Ric Flair.
05:57Flair is one of my, one of my idols, you know, childhood idols.
06:11I think I was asked here today because they wanted me to talk a little bit about what I went through when I started 30 years ago and how I've seen the business change and where I think the business is and what I think the differences are between the business when I started 30 years ago and now.
06:29And basically, I think people on the outside look in and don't realize how hard we work every day, how physically demanding it is every day, how mentally demanding it is every day to be a professional wrestler at the level that the WWE puts on TV every Monday and Thursday night and of course once a month in the form of a pay-per-view.
06:49I have friends that I knew for 15 years at home and I'm as tight as I could be with them but the only people who can understand it are the people in the business.
07:00It requires tremendous dedication, it requires a tremendous amount of skill, a tremendous amount of determination and a tremendous amount of getting up every day.
07:11This is not just my opinion I think but the opinion of many if you want to succeed of never wanting to be any less than the best.
07:20What's cool about him coming is that like he knows this business like longer than at least anybody else that we've met.
07:27Just remember that if you can do something a little bit different, a little bit better than anybody else, don't be shy about doing it.
07:33Jump on it because that can be the difference of sitting in a camp somewhere in a training center for a year as opposed to being at the big show.
07:41Everyone in this business has to have something that sets them aside from someone else. I want to be able to work on other things like that.
07:49Two of you to come out of here and the three that don't, I know if you've come this far you all have the potential to be successful.
07:55I'm honored to have met you. I'm honored to have had a chance to talk with you and as you can tell I could talk with you all day long.
08:01I'll let you go back to work. Thank you. I'm honored. Good luck to all of you.
08:13Found out off the bat we had another special guest.
08:15A good friend of mine Mike Kiyota is a SmackDown referee.
08:19It would be nice to bring in an actual referee to help referee a couple of these matches.
08:25So you'll get to see what it's like to work with a professional.
08:28They are literally being evaluated every moment of every day.
08:32The only is good is the last time you were in the ring. That's a lot of pressure.
08:35When we're standing around the ring, everybody's kind of eyeing each other up.
08:43I think Matt's going to win because he's got the it factor. He's got just a really cool ring presence.
08:48And he picks up all the moves really quickly.
08:57I honestly think Jonah is going to have a contract.
09:01I think he's got a personality that you can't teach.
09:08John is like a super athlete. Just a gymnastic background that John brings to the ring is going to help him so much.
09:15Eric is awesome in the ring. And he has the drive.
09:20Jamie's always been able to hold their own. She looks good in the ring all the time. She looks like she could do this.
09:24There's so many good things in everybody. And you don't know what the final decision is going to be.
09:29And you don't know what the final decision is going to be.
09:30And you don't know what the final decision is going to be.
09:34I'm sitting there just watching the match. And I can feel someone just going to come and see what the final decision is going to be.
09:39things and everybody and you don't know what the final decision is going to be
10:00i'm sitting there just watching the match and i could feel someone just hovering over me
10:05i slightly turn my head i see his bright orange shirt and it's taz and i was like oh man
10:16taz is kind of on the same line as bob holly as far as intensity goes
10:20we're gonna get the hell beat out of this probably
10:24bill's not gonna be here tomorrow we love bill well from what i hear from billy and
10:29big al told me you guys through the canyon on tuesdays
10:38taz wants to see the canyon and i'd like some friends with me five of them
10:44oh my god this could be this could be bad i'm fearing for my life here i'm like oh jesus my
10:50jaw just drops one morning i'll be at your house at 6 a.m 6 a.m we're hitting the canyon
10:56we have the canyon with taz at six o'clock in the morning which is brutal tonight
11:03you're home when we go home now i suggest you don't go out cany's gonna be a little different
11:08tomorrow we figured he's gonna show up in like fatigues and just be a ball buster everybody has
11:15this knot in their stomach and is just thinking about what's gonna happen at six o'clock in the
11:18morning and then a positive no i guess hey with a bang yeah sure why not guys you want to uh move
11:25up to see your house tonight
11:30yeah all right
11:35taz comes over uh we make up some hamburgers cook up some burgers on the grill
11:39just got this huge sony tv sony playstation how about it me and you i'll kick your ass in it
11:44help me john these things hey it's really cool because you know taz is sitting right there
11:50and then he picks himself it's the real thing
11:56oh my god i love it walking like i got a rod up my ass
12:03great he actually wrestled ivory on the playstation game and ivory kicked his ass
12:10that's a different story entirely big's kind of like you know look at you guys can't believe
12:15you didn't dress up for taz so we all like ran we're like just putting on clothes
12:26look good they clean up nice the whole time we're looking at him we're thinking like what his face is
12:31gonna look like tomorrow at the canyon they probably look good sitting in the front row at smackdown in
12:35san diego tomorrow night oh man just started going nuts can't believe we're going to smackdown
12:44we were just ecstatic but at the same time like we still got the canyon the next day
12:53log on to mtv.com or toughenough.com right now to make the final cut in tough enough 3. you'll see who
13:00america pick for the live season finale next week only on mtv
13:11we get announced that we're going to smackdown and we were all so excited but the bad part still
13:16was that we had the canyon yeah no canyon no canyon we're going to smackdown like what could be better
13:28pack up and we are ready to go see the show
13:35we're going to smackdown i think in my mind one of the best ways to
13:38to end the experience here in tough enough 3. let's go see the see my world everywhere i turn
13:49there's like everybody i watch you know every thursday night like there they are no one really
13:54knows what goes on backstage as a fan you see these huge trailers huge trucks wwe everywhere the whole
14:02experience of being backstage and seen behind the scenes it was amazing
14:10we were fortunate enough for al to take us through what a wrestler would go through every night
14:16uh over here vince jr we'll be sitting there watching the monitors so as you're about to go out
14:24is it enough that you're on tv in front of millions of people and in front of 20 000 people live or 15 000
14:30people live sitting right there he's watching every single thing i don't get nervous until i'm out
14:36here and then i'm and then once you go through here you get to walk down the ramp walking down there
14:43you know you it's always been a dream for me we need tons of supersize you see with kishi
14:49chavo guerrero comes up says hey what's up guys i met brock less man he is a larger than life guy
14:57these are guys i've looked up to i've watched them all
15:03gives us a whole new light on how the business works i mean this is it it's what i want to be
15:11after that we head to our seats and we sit down and they are front row
15:27it's amazing to think that two of us are one day we're going to be doing that
15:45it was like seeing you know a family member of one of your best friends coming down the ranch
15:58this is something that we've lived for something for two months two and a half months that we've
16:02been fighting for we want to be a part of that
16:09i could just totally see you know my pictures my music coming out the pyro coming off i'm coming down
16:15the ramp
16:21you see somebody take a bump and nobody else in the audience really
16:24like can understand except for somebody who's trying to learn it
16:31i close my eyes and like think about someday how i'll be coming down the ramp and everybody
16:36with just a horn and stand up going yeah
16:42from the very first moment that i enter an arena i want people to say that's jonathan tough
16:47enough three you know what that's all him i'm gonna cheer for him
17:03after you know all the matches are done we head backstage you know to meet back up with everyone
17:08all of a sudden in walks the door vince mcmahon we're all just like
17:30nice to meet you you guys enjoy the event tonight
17:34i'm just basically trying to keep myself composed the passion that they have just for
17:45to do what they do and uh to do it night in and night out
17:52off the chart something i hope you guys really will really find because there's no experience like it
17:59it's an honor and it's a privilege to be in this business and to be able to do that hopefully uh
18:07one day you'll know that same privilege good luck in new york nice meeting you guys thank you very
18:13much okay take care man thank you take care
18:16nice that moment was just like that's that's dream for every wrestler meet vince mcmahon it's a dream for
18:31every wrestler everyone kind of took a moment to think you know do i have it and i i think everyone's
18:38answer out of the five was yeah just give me the chance to prove it
18:52so
18:58ten weeks ago when i look back i definitely thought that i had a good opportunity here to
19:06maybe make it to the finals but then again i'm still surprised and thankful to be here
19:11on the first day tough enough i thought to myself that um no matter how hard i get pushed what we
19:20have to do i'm not going to quit and i'm going to keep trying i did
19:27having this opportunity is the best thing that's ever happened to me even if i don't win this
19:32i've learned so much about myself
19:34every week i found more and more about the business that i enjoyed and i liked and um
19:44after 10 weeks i mean there's just so much there's so much passion that i actually have to do this
19:53i want to be in this business i know what i want to do whether i win tough enough or not
19:58they will see my face again in the ring and i will make it
20:05the whole morale of the group and um just the closeness of us really came together it's more
20:11like a family
20:15we're all so much closer now it's that much harder to see someone go
20:22it's not a competition anymore so i can't be like you know the big juic is going to win and these
20:26other fools aren't going to win we're a family it's like i want to see everybody win
20:35for the trainers and me the cuts on tough enough three have been some of the most difficult in
20:38the history of the show let's see if it's any easier for you log on to mtv.com or toughenough.com
20:45right now to find out how you can make the final cut then tune in next week at 10 p.m for the live
20:50season finale to find out who remains as the final four
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