Tough Enough, and the former wrestler recalled one such experience with D-Von Dudley. The
Tough Enough season one winner appeared on Table Talk with D-Von and remembered how he said the wrong thing at the wrong time to D-Von, which led to a less than ideal response.
“He hated me,” Maven remembered of getting off to the wrong foot with D-Von. “He can say what he wants, [but] he
hated me. So I don’t know how he tells the story, but let me tell you the truth. So I come out of
Tough Enough and I’m young. And I’m already terrified. Like, I’m literally in a full locker room with as many alpha males as you can possibly imagine being in one location. I was scared to death, I was like 23, 24 years old. And you know, all I wanted to do was to just have people earn respect for me, that was it. D-Von comes out of a match, I don’t know who him and Bubba were working. But he comes down, he walks down past Gorilla position. And I go, ‘Hey D-Von, good match.’ And this was his reaction. [Scoffs]. And he kept moving. Not a thank you, not a, ‘What did you like about it.’ Not even a slap!”