Former Tough Enough Participant Joins WWE Creative

A former Tough Enough contestant has returned to WWE as a member of the creative team.

Fightful Select has reported that Eric Watts has joined the WWE SmackDown writing team on a full-time basis. Watts competed on the 2011 edition of Tough Enough, a series which featured the likes of Ivelisse, Cameron, Marty The Moth Martinez, Matt Cross (Son of Havoc), and others. Watts was the seventh contestant eliminated in the series and he wasn't signed by the company afterwards as a wrestler.

Watts has wrestled extensively on the indies since Tough Enough and he previously served as an enhancement talent for a May 2020 taping of AEW Dark where he and a tag team partner lost to Jurassic Express. Watts also teamed with Chris Bey at IMPACT Unbreakable 2019. The former Tough Enough participant hasn't wrestled since the Summer of 2023, though.

WWE creative is headed by WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque. The company made another addition to the creative team earlier this year, signing independent wrestler Patrick Scott as a writer's assistant for SmackDown. Scott started in February.