WWE Tough Enough: How This Reality Show Transcended "Reality" *SPOILER ALERT*

*SPOILER ALERT* IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE TOUGH ENOUGH FINALE, STOP READING NOW. I WILL TALK ABOUT THE WINNER.

When I think reality show, "scripted" is the first thing that comes to my mind. One would think that a reality show would be real, or at least seem so. In this day and age you watch MTV or VH1 and at any given time in the day, you'll catch a reality show.

A couple things that I've noticed about said reality shows is that there are no reality shows out there tailored to the sports fan, or the athlete. Along came a show that was just that. I enjoy wrestling, and was hoping for a good reality show.

Enter WWE Tough Enough.

I wrote an article after the first episode about how I was pleasantly surprised. It didn't have that ordinary reality show feel. It didn't seem scripted. I was entertained. There were a number of extremely annoying characters that I hoped would be eliminated soon so that I didn't have to spend all season watching them. Tough Enough didn't shove those guys in my face. Just like real life, it seemed, those "weak links" and annoying characters were weeded out.

In my opinion, the four best athletes on the show were Andy, Luke, Martin and Jeremiah, in that order. Injuries caused Martin to be eliminated earlier than he would have hoped, which left him out of the top four in the actual competition where I believe he belonged.

In any case, I wish that WWE could keep all four, but there could only be one winner. Andy Leavine was picked by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as the winner. It was kind of a surprise for me, since Andy kind of came out of no where in the last couple episodes. However, Andy really seemed to improve incredibly in the last couple of episodes.

After watching a few of his exhibitions, I was impressed by the big man. I'm no wrestling pro, by any means, but watching that big boot really sold me on Luke. He's a big man who wrestles like a big man. Also, Vince McMahon likes the huge guys, and although I don't really care about that, I believe that gave him a leg up at the end as well.

Either way, this article is about how the show transcended the "reality show" status quo. I personally didn't find it to be predictable. I expected that Luke would win, and instead Andy won. I expected that Martin would make it farther than he did. He was injured early on and had to leave the show.

Not only was it not predictable, but I found it to be very entertaining. I hope that this is the start of something new, and that this show continues to entertaining fans like me and producing fresh new superstars. Cheers WWE, for not messing up Tough Enough.