The Truth About Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge Series

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

According to Entertainment Weekly, Austin said that his Broken Skull Challenge "makes CrossFit look like a yoga retreat," and from the abject torment stamped onto the faces of many contestants, we can tell he wasn't kidding. Each episode pitted eight contestants โ€” men on one episode, women on the next โ€” chosen for their athleticism, endurance, and apparent masochism to compete for $10,000. They faced off in head-to-head elimination challenges with menacing names like "Trench Warfare," a competition in which two opponents scrap it out in a trench filled with muddy water. The first to ring his or her opponent's bell at the other end won the round.

There was also "The Pulverizer" โ€” dragging sleds full of heavy weights to stations where they add on more weights and continue on to stations with more ... You get the idea. "The Junkyard" was just like it sounds. There were hundreds of pounds of junk that need to be moved to the other end of the yard (cuz like, what else do we have these muscles for?). Once the scrap metal was on the other side of the junkyard, it was on the other side of the junkyard (oh, good!), and the last two standing after this round moved on to "The Pit." This misnamed challenge was basically a sumo wrestling copycat: push the other guy out of the circle (not as threatening as The Pit), and you win.

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