WWE Tough Enough scenes: Chris Nawrocki

As an avid professional wrestling fan from the time I was a toddler until high school (admittedly, it still entertains me), I had a blast putting together my story on Chris Nawrocki, brother of Penn senior tight end Luke. But as hard as I tried to put his dreamlike ride to WWE reality show "Tough Enough" into words, sometimes the words don't do the reality justice. So take a look at some scenes when Chris appeared on the show, which aired in 2004.

First, here's Chris' bio segment, including snippets of the audition tape that earned him one of 75 invitations to California for tryouts:

Next, two scenes the Nawrockis will surely remember for their entire lives. Here's Chris and the other contestants getting bad-mouthed and then body-slammed by 7'1, 450-pound Paul Wight a.k.a. "The Big Show":

And here's the competition that ultimately caused Chris' elimination and a pair of broken ribs courtesy of former Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle:

Finally, here's Chris' emotional elimination from "Tough Enough":