Former WWE Superstar Brian Myers, aka Curt Hawkins, recently talked to the Inquisitor about WWE bringing back Tough Enough.
Myers talks about the show’s failures and what it needs to be a success, running his Create-A-Pro wrestling school with Pat Buck, working on the independent scene, and more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Hawkins on his Create-A-Pro wrestling school:
“It’s awesome, it’s not work, I love wrestling and I’m very passionate about it. I’m going to be talking about it and watching it anyway, so I might as well be helping others and making money. It’s a great marriage, I guess. Being a coach is really rewarding.”
Curt Hawkins On Tough Enough:
“It’s a good TV show and that’s it, there’s never a payoff. Wrestling is an incredibly difficult art form to learn, you can’t learn it in three months. So WWE takes these people who never trained before, throw them into a situation where they become big stars, they are on TV every week, people are invested in them and know their whole back story, know everything about them, and are on TV every week for three months and then they win, and guess what, they still don’t know how to wrestle.”
On working the independent scene:
“I’m in no rush to sign a contract with anybody, it’s no concern to be on TV because I’m still successful doing what I’m doing, I take it as I go. As long as I’m wrestling, I’m happy. I didn’t fall in love with WWE, I fell in love with pro wrestling and it comes in all shapes and sizes.”
