When the Lead Dogs Go Down

May 16, 2011 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

Martin Casaus and Christina Crawford were arguably the front-runners in this season of “Tough Enough.”

Both had the technique, look and passion to win the entire thing.

But injuries derailed their hopes, but hopefully not their dreams to one day get to the WWE.

These incidents were the driving force in this episode, but there was a lot more going on in and out of the ring as well.

It was nice to see Trish Stratus work with Christina Crawford at the start of the show. The last female in the competition at the time, Crawford has a tough road ahead of her, but surprisingly has better technique than a few of the men.

It’s sad that an injury has most likely knocked her out of the competition.

That sentiment was clearly evident after one of the worst workouts on the show. A kick-out and throw them out of the right exercise, most of the contestants lacked the execution needed to be WWE superstars.

If that wasn’t enough entertainment for you, the Bella twins, Eve Torrez and Kelly Kelly also appeared on the show and took the group out to dinner. It was interesting to see the difference in behavior in all the contestants. Jeremiah Riggs and Luke Robinson are the rockstars of the group, the recipients of “play” slaps from the Bella twins, while everyone else was busy picking the divas’ brains for tips on getting ahead. Will it affect their chances? Or will they look back at that night and wonder why they didn’t have a good time like the bro-mance of Riggs and Robinson?

Things got lighter however, as the group was sent to THQ headquarters, where they played the new WWE All-Stars game on the X-Box 360. Able to create their own characters, all the contestants were able to show some of their creativity, with mixed results.

While Andy Leavine made a character he felt he could portray in the WWE, Riggs and Robinson got a bit silly. Riggs character wore only underwear and boots and Robinson’s ego was prevalent in his creation as well. Already the victim of a reality check by Steve Austin two weeks ago, how long will Robinson’s ego run rampant?

However, with Casaus and Crawford [apparently] now out of the competition, Robinson may in fact be the guy to beat.

The show is wide open now and ready for someone to step up and take the prize.

Who will it be?

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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