Miss USA Steps Into the Wrestling Ring And Talks About Her Experience!

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/tough_stuff_KFzkjrhgRFUG6R4IxQLbMO

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QUEEN INTHE RING: Miss USA Rima Fakih competes in a WWE reality competition.

"I had a few incidents walking home from school. Someone wanted my book bag one time and pulled out a knife."

Rima, 25, will train and share a house in LA with 13 other contestants, including "America's Next Top Model" hopeful Michelle Deighton. They will compete in weekly challenges to determine who has what it takes to become a professional wrestling star.

The series premieres April 4 on USA Network.

"I was a tomboy growing up," Rima tells The Post. "I always thought that the Divas [female wrestlers] were a great example of someone I could relate to.

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Miss USA is trading in her tiara for a shot at professional wrestling.

Beauty queen Rima Fakih -- the pageant's first-ever Arab-American winner -- says growing up in Jackson Heights, Queens, helped prepare her to compete in the new WWE reality competition "Tough Enough."

"I was in and out of different high schools -- Martin Luther King, where 50 Cent got kicked out of, and Flushing Meadow, where we would have fights and shootings every day," she says.

"Over there, you have to be tough morning to night. Someone can just stab you because they like your sneakers.

"Being Middle Eastern, it's tough for girls to be in modeling and beauty pageants and wear bathing suits. When I told my parents about doing 'Tough Enough,' my mom's exact comment was, 'Yeah, my daughter can kick butt!' "

Rima -- who nearly lost the Miss USA crown when photos of her pole dancing surfaced on the Internet last year -- says training for the show took a toll on her pageant-perfect body.

"I was bruised up a lot," she says. "There would be times I would leave the ring and there would be a lot of blood on the mat.

"There was a lot of wear and tear on my body, but I loved every bruise and black and blue mark because I could see how hard I pushed myself."
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Thoughts?

I hope she wins, sorry aside from that one unkown chick the rest have wrestling experience and that completly throws the whole concept of the show out of the window.

Nidia, Jackie gayda and Linda Miles all had no prior wrestling experience, they were fitness models, average people, Body Builders...made the show worth watching.

If Rima don't win...then blah...waste of time.

Still, I want her to win, or that other unkown chick. WOuld make sense since they are what this show is about. But meh, WWE ruined it for me when they decided to add girls with wrestling experience.

I think all of the guys are trained wrestlers.....at least for them it's fair since all are all in physical shape....how can Rima do all the physical stuffs with girls who are used to physical training??

She is at a disadvantage.

Meh whatev

I dont like her she is all looks, which is why they are gonna keep her, more talentless bitches taking up the true diva's time

The Scene Queens wrote:

I dont like her she is all looks, which is why they are gonna keep her, more talentless bitches taking up the true diva's time

Pretty much!