Former Tough Enough Contestant Says She's Signed w/WWE

According to German celebrity/gossip site PromiFlash.de, former WWE Tough Enough contestant and Miss USA Rima Fakih has signed with WWE.
Fakih has reportedly been in attendance for numerous WrestleMania
Axxess events this week, and when asked if she is now signed to the
company she responded by saying:

"You are the first to respond to me, but I can now tell you that I will definitely be part of WWE."

On the subject of her time on Tough Enough, she said:

"It was really hard. I probably had to fight the most, simply because
everyone thought that I'm just a beauty queen," Fakih says. She adds
that she while she sustained numerous injuries during the competition,
she didn't want to give up.

Fakih also had the following to say when asked which WrestleMania match she is looking forward to the most:

"Everyone wants John Cena to see The Rock, but I personally cannot wait
to see CM Punk spanked Chris Jericho's ass," she says, "I love CM Punk.
He has a very distinctive and colorful character."

wow that's all the girls now. if they could just sign Martin, Luke and AJ then they'd have quite the FCW roster

Who... gives... two... shits?

I'm still waiting for someone to step in and say April Fools!!

Quisee wrote:

Yes! Finally WWE has signed Rima Fakih I can't wait to see her either in developmental and/or the main roster. I won't mind either way as long as she's employed by WWE.

i would, she wasnt good on TE so. this is why the divas division will continue to be a joke as its considered by many. she has no in ring experience, so, have fun having the next Candice or Ashley Massaro

Dead wrote:

Quisee wrote:

Yes! Finally WWE has signed Rima Fakih I can't wait to see her either in developmental and/or the main roster. I won't mind either way as long as she's employed by WWE.

i would, she wasnt good on TE so. this is why the divas division will continue to be a joke as its considered by many. she has no in ring experience, so, have fun having the next Candice or Ashley Massaro

Everyone needs to start somewhere don't they?

WWE has hired football players etc to be wrestlers as well, so why not random girls?

I'd encourage WWE to hire fitness models, former body Builders......just no more swimsuit models....they really aren't working out.

Leave them down in FCW, 3/4 years, before bringing them up to the main roster.

Emily Thorne's Apprentice wrote:

Dead wrote:

Quisee wrote:

Yes! Finally WWE has signed Rima Fakih I can't wait to see her either in developmental and/or the main roster. I won't mind either way as long as she's employed by WWE.

i would, she wasnt good on TE so. this is why the divas division will continue to be a joke as its considered by many. she has no in ring experience, so, have fun having the next Candice or Ashley Massaro

Everyone needs to start somewhere don't they?

WWE has hired football players etc to be wrestlers as well, so why not random girls?

I'd encourage WWE to hire fitness models, former body Builders......just no more swimsuit models....they really aren't working out.

Leave them down in FCW, 3/4 years, before bringing them up to the main roster.

And look at how many football players turned wrestlers not named the Rock have actually been good talent wise, or successful, you wont find many. You all want the divas division to mean something again? I encourage WWE to sign women that can actually wrestle. Go get Sara Del Ray, go bring in MsChif or fucking Roxxi...but stop...STOP fucking signing models. Everyone bitches that most of the women on the roster now have no fucking talent with the exception of like 4, but yet every time an inexperienced model is signed, everyone goes "hmm, YAY A NEW GIRL TO WATCH". That's why everyone has pretty much given up on the ones that can go like Beth and Natalya, because they dont have anything to work with. Why do you think everyone was so hyped for the rumors of Beth/Natalya, or Beth/Kharma? Because they know it could of possibly been a good match. But yet we have women who botch fucking leap frog attempts, and 90% of womens finishers are fucking rollups. You all want womens wrestling to have matches that are 10-15 minutes like they used to be? Bring in the women that can actually keep people interested the entire 10-15 minutes.

Also, it doesnt matter how long youd stay in FCW, look at AJ. Everyone on here and other forums, hyped her up as the BEST womens wrestler coming out of developmental, yet i have yet to see this ubertalented woman in the ring when she WAS having matches. Instead she was paired with fucking Kaitlyn, who hasnt been seen on actual television in about 4 months. The 3rd season of NXT was a failure in that sense, because none of them shined, none of them stood out. If any of those women had the talent to go, night in and night out, theyd be on the main roster by now. It's pretty fucking sad when the winner of NXT isnt doing a god damn thing, but her runner-up is.

Dead wrote:

Also, it doesnt matter how long youd stay in FCW, look at AJ. Everyone on here and other forums, hyped her up as the BEST womens wrestler coming out of developmental, yet i have yet to see this ubertalented woman in the ring when she WAS having matches. Instead she was paired with fucking Kaitlyn, who hasnt been seen on actual television in about 4 months. The 3rd season of NXT was a failure in that sense, because none of them shined, none of them stood out. If any of those women had the talent to go, night in and night out, theyd be on the main roster by now. It's pretty fucking sad when the winner of NXT isnt doing a god damn thing, but her runner-up is.

First off, the REASON why AJ got hyped, is because she was an indy wrestler. People who don't follow the Indy scene would think ANYONE from there are great, they "Oh finally they signed a wrestler" while not even knowing them Shelly Martinez, Velvet Sky, Reby Sky are amongst girls who are perfect examples, people who shouldn't get hype if they don't know them. I've said it before, AJ needed a good 3 years in FCW to work out her flaws, she was pretty much like Shantelle Taylor when they signed her and she had some kinks to work through because she was still pretty new but she had raw talent. But people just see "WWE signed indy wrestler" and presume they could wrestle, while that is not always the case.

and like a model, like a fitness model, like a girl who just graduated from high school, Sara Del Rey, MsChif, Nikki Roxx all started at nothing. Nikki was actually a fitness model before getting into wrestling, Sarita is also a body builder before dipping into wrestling. Trinity was a stunt double before getting into wrestling. While Gail Kim, and many others modeled before dipping into wrestling. Lita was a stripper, Trish, Victoria all former fitness models. Everyone needs to start from somewhere, sure, they may have went because they wanted to, regardless, they all started from nothing. Michelle McCool was a teacher for christ sake and she got decent enough.

I don't see the harm in signing girls who would like to pursue wrestling but luckily got in because of their looks. Good for them, lucky them, everyone wants to get in the business, if it wasn't so, their wouldn't be a bunch of actual wrestlers who tried to get in via the diva search. Would they get scarred for life because they got in via the Diva search? That she was wrestling for a year before getting into the diva search and got her shot. Would she be named "Talentless Diva Search Girl" even if she was training to wrestle prior to the diva search?

Just like Julliet the Huntress (aka Ivelesse from TE), everyone is hyping her up, everyone is thinking she is this major talent simply because she is a indy wrestler, she's good, i enjoyed a LOT of her work, i'm a real fan of hers BUT she has certain aspects she needs to learn before she isn't TV ready.

Everyone starts from somehwere, and if WWE gave me the opportunity to sign a contract with no experience i would plus i'd have the advantage of learning the WWE style of wrestling from the ground up and not having to adapt my wrestling style to the WWE style.

WWE just needs to focus on sending them to the main roster when they are TV ready and have a storyline ready for them, which thankfully is a policy HHH is introducing because their were many people who went to waste because creative had nothing for them but just wanted to call them up because they liked their look.

You think if wwe signs women like Sara del ray,Madison Eagles,Mschief,etc we will get 10-15 minute diva matches?????.I don't think so Vince does not care about the divas anymore so it's like we get what we can get from the divas even if wwe signs women like cheerleader Melissa and Madison eagles were still gonna have 2 second diva matches.So it's really not were you come from its basically you sign with us,we pay you then you leave pretty much.