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411’s Tough Enough Report 7.21.15

July 21, 2015 | Posted by Robert Leighty Jr.

411’s Tough Enough Report: July 21, 2015

-Last week Sara Lee was broken to tears as the judges tried to get her to show a mean side, but she is America’s sweetheart and steamrolled the others in the bottom three. That sent Gabi packing as she had no clue what a promo was and looked bad. Tanner didn’t look much better as he was given a chance to live most smarks dream (not mine) and tear into Hulk Hogan and instead just complimented the man. We also had Chelsea added to the mix on the female side.

-As a reminder the finalists left are: Joshua, Mada, Patrick, Tanner, and ZZ for the guys, and Amanda, Giorgia, Chelsea and Sara for the women.

-We are live from Full Sail with our host Chris Jericho and he is joined as always by the lovely, Renee Young. Amazing how a simple hair cut made her even hotter! Our judges of course as Paige, Daniel Bryan, and The Immortal, Hulk Hogan and they shill Daniel Bryan’s book.

-We find out we have a special guest this week at Full Sail and it is The Big Show. He comes out in his wrestling gear and he notes his is ready for a little business.

-We head to the barracks and they discuss the elimination. The girls realize they are down to four and that there is a split as Chelsea has hitched her wagon to Sara Lee and they are against Giorgia and Amanda. Patrick asks Tanner how it feels to be in the bottom three and that draws some “oohs” from the rest of the group.

-ZZ takes Patrick aside and tells him he needs to calm it down with his ego and trash talk. He tells him a peanut butter sandwich sucks, so you need jelly to soften things out. He speaks in tongues like Wyatt, but not near as menacing and poignant obviously.

-We head to the next challenge and this is in Winter Garden, FL where an obstacle course is waiting them. Tanner has to be drooling all over this one. The course looks like a beast, and you can already see where some people are going to have a hell of a time. To help with the challenge and enforce the rules they have Natalya and she brings 2 officers who will run the course to make sure everyone keeps up with them. Everyone seems rather cocky and confident.

-Tanner is brimming full of confidence as he is smoking everyone to start and Patrick knows he is screwed. Josh says he is stunned the female cop is staying with him and speaking of the women, Sara Lee is killing it until she gets to the ropes.

-Tanner finishes rather easily and screams out for Patrick as he has been saying he is #1. Everyone else is struggling with the rope climb, and Sara Lee gets passed by Giorgia who finishes first for the women.

-Tanner comes back and actually coaches everyone else on how to get through the rope climb. Mada loses his mind as he finally finishes the challenge, but seemingly Sara beats him. Patrick finishes and realizes ZZ is the last one for the guys. Amanda and Chelsea are the last two for the women and it is battle between them. Sara coaches Chelsea and Giorgia coaches Amanda as clearly sides have been drawn.

-Chelsea reaches the top first, but screws up her ankle as she jumps back down, and the trainers call the challenge off. We take a break back to Full Sail as the judges discuss what they saw. Paige actually says she is proud of Sara and somewhere it is snowing in hell. We take a commercial break with that.

-We come back and Renee goes over the now familiar Rules of Elimination. She could read from the dictionary and it would keep my attention.

-Back to the obstacle course and the trainers put over Tanner for smoking everyone and then going back to help. Everyone has rope burn and bruises and Natalya says the course was to show them to stay humble. Lita tells Patrick to watch it with his mouth and he needs to stay humble.

-We head to where Chelsea is having a MRI. She doesn’t have a break, but she does have a sprain. I know from experience a sprain is sometimes worse than a break. They tell Chelsea she needs to be off the foot for a month which doesn’t work for her.

-Back to the barracks where Amanda and Giorgia talk shit on Sara Lee. Apparently she doesn’t know all the work it takes to be a bikini model, and boy I can just tell these two are screwed if they get stuck in the bottom 3 with her. Would be great heel characters though, but I don’t think the fans are basing their vote on that.

-Chelsea comes back to the barracks and everyone basically says she is screwed when they see her ankle.

-Josh calls his daughter to pick up his spirits after finishing third. Again a very sweet moment between father and daughter as he has her do a yeti call. Awesome!

-Sara Lee checks on Chelsea and she tells her that she is going to do all she can to get her ankle healthy.

-Now to the men as the guys check in on ZZ who is sulking. He says he just wants to be alone with his thoughts. Patrick goes off on ZZ and asks him if he wants to be here. He calls him out and says ZZ has been coasting here on personality while he has busted his ass for a year to get here. He tells him to go back to the comedy club or to Louisiana to gives tours if he doesn’t want to be here. Man, these people are just signing their death warrants by attacking ZZ and Sara Lee. Patrick says it will be a kick in the balls if he comes here and loses to ZZ. Damn!

-Back to the judges and they don’t seem happy with either of them. They also talk about how Giorgia is stirring things up with the fact they are upset that Sara Lee is siding with newbie Chelsea. We take another commercial break.

-Back to the barracks and Amanda feels like crap due to her rope burn. She then talks to Georgia about Chelsea’s ankle. They feel she is in denial, and Sara Lee lets it slip that Chelsea is supposed to be off it for a month. She immediately realizes it was a mistake, and then sure enough at The Performance Center the first thing out of Giorgia’s mouth is “Sara said that Chelsea is supposed to be off it for a month.” Again, Damn! She then says she doesn’t want to be put at risk by having to work with an injured wrestler. Giorgia fake cries over Chelsea and it is rather sickening, and everyone calls her out on her poor acting.

-Billy asks her point blank if she is sitting and she says “yes.” Ouch!

-Mada says that each week they are learning more and more and this week they get to put more things together. The trainers tell Tanner he needs to work on showmanship inside the ring. The in ring challenge this week is to show humility as the winner gets to pick a loser to do 50 squats and they can talk shit to them while they do it. Nice! It would be great if ZZ pulled this out and got to talk trash to Patrick.

-The challenge is to have showmanship while doing the in ring work. Mada smokes Patrick in their head to head battle. Every time Patrick has to do a squat he has to say, “I am bowing down to my King.” Awesome!

-Sara Lee loses to Amanda Giorgia and she has to say that she is a loser and that Amanda and Giorgia own her.

-Josh, ZZ, and Tanner next and ZZ is declared the loser so he does squats while calling Josh and Tanner his daddy. He said being yelled and doing the squats was nothing. He just said nobody can compare to his daddy, so that bothered him.

-Booker calls Mada the winner and Giorgia wins once again for the women. They are probably the favorites if you take out America’s love for Sara and ZZ. We head to another break.

-Back again where Renee goes over the voting again. Then we head to the barracks and Sara calls out Giorgia for throwing her under the bus. Sara actually shows a backbone and she gets ganged up on by Giorgia and her sidekick. She actually tells both of them to “shut the fuck” up and somewhere Paige is probably smiling inside.

-Back to Full Sail and we find out the men have to take a chop from The Big Show. Glorious! This is actually a call back to when people had to take a chop from Holly on a previous season. Jericho makes them take their shirts off for it to suck even more.

-Josh is first and he gets his life lit up in impressive fashion, but takes it like a man. Patrick is next and Show seems a little pissed at him so this may have a little extra on it. Sure enough Patrick nearly buckles to his knee as he takes the chop. Awesome! Tanner is next and he says he is sure he wants to take this. He takes it like a champ and doesn’t even flinch which has to piss Patrick off. Mada next and Shows calls him a big man. Mada is fired up to take it and he is even more fired up when he does take it. He won Show over with that one. ZZ next and the way he is dressed he looks like a mini-Show. He is told to get his ass in the gym if he wants to be a WWE superstar. Show pulls down his tank top and ZZ nearly collapses to the floor. Mada and Tanner seemed to take that the best. We see the hand print left on each of them. My scrawny chest would have been destroyed if I had to take one of those. We take a break.

-The judges grill the kids as Hogan puts over Mada and Paige says she is happy to see that Sara has finally stepped up. Bryan puts over Tanner for winning challenges and for his smooth moves with taking Chelsea to the doctor. Hogan asks Amanda if she finished the course and she says she got stuck on the rope climb and Booker told her to stop.

-Bottom 3 Time: Daniel reminds everyone he is 4 for 4 in nominating who got bounced. Bryan puts ZZ in the bottom. Paige puts Patrick in the bottom 3 as he feels he needs to show humility. Hogan says he wanted to send Patrick so he has to come up with someone else. He tells Chelsea she is safe, but he does want to see more out of her. He asks Josh what will happen if he survives tonight as he is putting him in the bottom 3 as he is comparing him to the other monster, Mada. This should be interesting and we could get a save as Paige seems shocked that Josh is in the bottom 3.

-We come back from break and Renee goes over the rules of elimination again. This time each person gets 15 seconds to save themselves. They each seem stunned they are in the bottom 3 and ZZ seems to come off the best. Patrick tries to back track as he says he is not a person that starts fights and is only passionate. I think Patrick is in trouble with this one.

-Daniel says he wants to make 2 saves, but that just means he can’t make one. Paige says the same as you can tell they both want ZZ gone. Hogan won’t save anyone either.

-The results are in and this one was rather close, but Patrick is gone with only 25% of the vote. In a bit of a shock ZZ finished second with36% as Josh grabbed 39%.

-Patrick is crushed and the Full Sail crowd sounds stunned. Patrick says he is shocked and he says this is just God testing him. He admits he has to own up for who he is and that he has to humble himself. He says that he truly wants ZZ to be the winner as he connects with everyone.

-That was easily the best episode of the bunch with the most stunning elimination. Once Patrick got put in the bottom with ZZ you just knew he was toast due to all the trash talking and running ZZ down (even if he was maybe only trying to fire the big man up). Mada is the only man not to be put in the bottom 3 and he looks like the favorite. As for the women, Giorgia continues to dominate, but Sara has finally shown a much needed spark

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