Former WWE Tough Enough contestant Daniel Puder was recently on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast to discuss his time on the reality show as well as has how WWE treated him. Here are the highlights.
On his time during the reality show:
“I loved the format. About the fifth week in they told us we could talk smack about who you were going to vote off and there were a few people that were saying we have to vote Puder off. I didn’t know who I wanted to vote off but they made me say one person and I knew what they were doing. If they were doing that to me then I knew that they were doing it to everyone else. Because I was so close with Dave Meltzer I was on the phone with him for probably an hour a day on average. We went over promos, what to address, how to dress and what to do. So I gave it my all.”
On his treatment by the WWE:
“It is what it is at the end of the day. To me, when it’s what you do for work and after a year the company says, well we aren’t going to pay you $70,000 a year we are going to pay you $10,000 a year. I don’t believe life is fair at all but it’s not respectful and it is very dishonest. I don’t have any respect for them.”
You can listen to the entire interview down below:
