Tough Enough Evolved
Wondering
Hometown Boy, Not Yet Tough Enough?
Thursday night the news came from New York City live, Indiana's own Josh Mathews has been beaten, along with three of the other contestants on the Popular MTV show Tough Enough, for a WWE Contract. He recently got a warm welcome back home, but many of us may think Would he have gotten an even warmer one if he would have been carrying in his hand the trophy? Friends and Family of young Mathews say he won't be discouraged in any way, but should we really believe this?
Josh Mathews vowed on the live television broadcast of the Tough Enough Finale that he would not stop until he got the contract he was beaten out for by his fellow show mates Nidia and Maven. It didn't completely crush his spirit yet, but he was a little discouraged. He was often told he was too small to make it as a wrestler, was this just another thing to prove it? It didn't seem to make sense with great wrestlers out there like Rey Mysterio, but maybe WWE people hadn't grasped that yet since he wrestled for WCW; They're arch rival almost. His fingers slipped through his hair slowly as he stared down at the paper headlined "Hometown Boy, Not Yet Tough Enough?" It was articles like those going all around the entire state. The words blurred on the paper slowly, and the black and white print soon became all one big gray blur.
His breath came out of his mouth slowly, and the faint scent of liquor was on it. He took the final drink out of the small glass sitting in front of him it was sort of hard to tell what exact kind of drink it was. It didn't in fact matter now, he had already downed the entire thing. He caught a figure out of the corner of his eye, and he moved his gaze upwards to see what it was.
"Hi, my name's Jordan. I know you probably get asked this a lot but aren't you Josh Mathews?" The small redhead in front of him smiled slightly, she didn't seem to be the same kind of people he was usually approached by lately. It took Josh a moment to realize what she had asked, the liquor had slowed his thinking slightly. He had been there for a few hours, maybe it wouldn't have been as bad if the friends he had been there with before wouldn't have left.
"I am actually, how did you know? The fact that my picture is in every paper with some kind of a headline next to it thats not exactly flattering?" He let his finger drop down to the table with a thud, his hand landed on his own picture that was on the newspaper, "Or the word around town has me as a loser? Maybe even both." He didn't seem like the normal happy person that was seen on TV every week when the Tough Enough season was still going strong. The liquior was probably to blame for that too though.
"Actually I saw you on Tough Enough when the Season first started. I really thought you were going to win that, you certianly deserved it." Jordan smiled slightly, thinking that saying something like that would at least cheer him up a little. It didn't look like it did, but deep down it did. Someone in this godforsaken town actually thought he should have won instead of just his friends and family or people that he'd never meet.
"Really? Thanks, thats nice of you to say. Doesn't seem like anyone in this town thinks that, Minus friends and family." Josh sat up in his chair now, it was slightly easier to tell that the things Jordan had said did at least cheer him some. "You don't have to stand if you don't want." Jordan didn't even have to think about what his said, the small high backed chair was already out from under the table she sitting in it soon after. "So you said your name is Jordan? I wish everyone thought the same way about this whole Tough Enough thing as you did."
"I'm surprised they aren't. It's kind of rude to act the way everyone's acting. You worked your ass off everyday, and for what? For you to come home to a bunch of no life hicks that can't get the bigger picture of this whole thing." Josh looked slightly surprised when she said all that, it was like she had something prepared just in case she ran into him. "You think I'm some psycho stalker don't you? Well I'll have you know I'm not, just I think it's dumb the way they're acting. You were so close."
"I really apperciate everything you've said, it's made me feel a whole lot better." Josh smiled at her, and finally there she saw that happy person from the TV; than again everyone isn't like what they are on TV. It wouldn't take Jordan but ten minutes talking to him to figure out he really was the way he was on TV. Maybe that was one of the reasons they both stayed friends, or it may have been the fact that they just hit it off really well in the begining and kept in touch. Whatever it was, they got closer and closer all the way up until the point Josh finally got into the WWE as a backstage interviewer and Commintator.
It seemed like everything wasn't right in the world of WWE after a while of Josh being in the business. Some of the wrestlers began to refuse to do some of the storylines they put in front of them. Of course Vince would insist on them being done, It will raise the ratings, it's not that bad, Is what he would always say about it. In reality it was getting to be a little ridiculous. Some of the wrestlers even started to talk about leaving.
When Josh started working for WWE it got harder for him to keep in touch with Jordan, but that wouldn't last long. She was trying to get into the business and it was only a matter of time. She had visted Josh a few times and became quick friends with quite a few of the wrestlers. But she wondered sometimes Would that be enough?
Note: I know all of you know this already, but I figured I'd state it anyway since you might get the crazy Idea I am morem than just some crazy person writing a story. I don't own any of the people in the story above except for Jordan. She is my own created character so don't use her! Also the ideas for this story also belong to me.
Wondering
Hometown Boy, Not Yet Tough Enough?
Thursday night the news came from New York City live, Indiana's own Josh Mathews has been beaten, along with three of the other contestants on the Popular MTV show Tough Enough, for a WWE Contract. He recently got a warm welcome back home, but many of us may think Would he have gotten an even warmer one if he would have been carrying in his hand the trophy? Friends and Family of young Mathews say he won't be discouraged in any way, but should we really believe this?
Josh Mathews vowed on the live television broadcast of the Tough Enough Finale that he would not stop until he got the contract he was beaten out for by his fellow show mates Nidia and Maven. It didn't completely crush his spirit yet, but he was a little discouraged. He was often told he was too small to make it as a wrestler, was this just another thing to prove it? It didn't seem to make sense with great wrestlers out there like Rey Mysterio, but maybe WWE people hadn't grasped that yet since he wrestled for WCW; They're arch rival almost. His fingers slipped through his hair slowly as he stared down at the paper headlined "Hometown Boy, Not Yet Tough Enough?" It was articles like those going all around the entire state. The words blurred on the paper slowly, and the black and white print soon became all one big gray blur.
His breath came out of his mouth slowly, and the faint scent of liquor was on it. He took the final drink out of the small glass sitting in front of him it was sort of hard to tell what exact kind of drink it was. It didn't in fact matter now, he had already downed the entire thing. He caught a figure out of the corner of his eye, and he moved his gaze upwards to see what it was.
"Hi, my name's Jordan. I know you probably get asked this a lot but aren't you Josh Mathews?" The small redhead in front of him smiled slightly, she didn't seem to be the same kind of people he was usually approached by lately. It took Josh a moment to realize what she had asked, the liquor had slowed his thinking slightly. He had been there for a few hours, maybe it wouldn't have been as bad if the friends he had been there with before wouldn't have left.
"I am actually, how did you know? The fact that my picture is in every paper with some kind of a headline next to it thats not exactly flattering?" He let his finger drop down to the table with a thud, his hand landed on his own picture that was on the newspaper, "Or the word around town has me as a loser? Maybe even both." He didn't seem like the normal happy person that was seen on TV every week when the Tough Enough season was still going strong. The liquior was probably to blame for that too though.
"Actually I saw you on Tough Enough when the Season first started. I really thought you were going to win that, you certianly deserved it." Jordan smiled slightly, thinking that saying something like that would at least cheer him up a little. It didn't look like it did, but deep down it did. Someone in this godforsaken town actually thought he should have won instead of just his friends and family or people that he'd never meet.
"Really? Thanks, thats nice of you to say. Doesn't seem like anyone in this town thinks that, Minus friends and family." Josh sat up in his chair now, it was slightly easier to tell that the things Jordan had said did at least cheer him some. "You don't have to stand if you don't want." Jordan didn't even have to think about what his said, the small high backed chair was already out from under the table she sitting in it soon after. "So you said your name is Jordan? I wish everyone thought the same way about this whole Tough Enough thing as you did."
"I'm surprised they aren't. It's kind of rude to act the way everyone's acting. You worked your ass off everyday, and for what? For you to come home to a bunch of no life hicks that can't get the bigger picture of this whole thing." Josh looked slightly surprised when she said all that, it was like she had something prepared just in case she ran into him. "You think I'm some psycho stalker don't you? Well I'll have you know I'm not, just I think it's dumb the way they're acting. You were so close."
"I really apperciate everything you've said, it's made me feel a whole lot better." Josh smiled at her, and finally there she saw that happy person from the TV; than again everyone isn't like what they are on TV. It wouldn't take Jordan but ten minutes talking to him to figure out he really was the way he was on TV. Maybe that was one of the reasons they both stayed friends, or it may have been the fact that they just hit it off really well in the begining and kept in touch. Whatever it was, they got closer and closer all the way up until the point Josh finally got into the WWE as a backstage interviewer and Commintator.
It seemed like everything wasn't right in the world of WWE after a while of Josh being in the business. Some of the wrestlers began to refuse to do some of the storylines they put in front of them. Of course Vince would insist on them being done, It will raise the ratings, it's not that bad, Is what he would always say about it. In reality it was getting to be a little ridiculous. Some of the wrestlers even started to talk about leaving.
When Josh started working for WWE it got harder for him to keep in touch with Jordan, but that wouldn't last long. She was trying to get into the business and it was only a matter of time. She had visted Josh a few times and became quick friends with quite a few of the wrestlers. But she wondered sometimes Would that be enough?
Note: I know all of you know this already, but I figured I'd state it anyway since you might get the crazy Idea I am morem than just some crazy person writing a story. I don't own any of the people in the story above except for Jordan. She is my own created character so don't use her! Also the ideas for this story also belong to me.