The ChallengeCreates Its Own Mount Rushmore with GOAT Players Competing onBattle of the Eras— Do You Agree?

Mar. 15, 2025

This post contains spoilers from the Wednesday, Nov. 6, episode ofThe Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras.

The Challenge 40: Battle of the Erasset out to determine the greatest Challenger of all time. With onlyRachel Robinsonleft standingfrom Era 1, it could be argued that the longest-tenured players in the game might not be the GOATs.

The Nov. 6 episode ofThe Challenge40put four competitors up on its ownMount Rushmore:Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio,Cara Maria Sorbello,Laurel StuckyandChris “CT” Tamburello.Jordan Wiseleyhoped to add himself to the sculpture of greats, and the animated Mount Rushmore showed what it would look like to have theReal World; Portlandalum alongside the other four champs.

“I want to be known as the competitor,” Wiseley, 34, told ex-fiancéeTori Deal. “World Champswas cool, I want to get another win here. It’d be five. I’d be in the same boat as CT.“

Tamburello, 44, got eliminated earlier in the season, and Stucky, 39, was excited after the daily challenge in the Nov. 6 episode. HostTJ Lavinannounced that the challenge on Nov. 6 would be a mini final — and a purge. That meant that the last female and male finishers automatically went home, and the second-to-last place finisher for the men would head into elimination. The second to last-place woman would receive a disadvantage in the next challenge.

When Stucky found herself in the bottom two alongsideMichele Fitzgerald, she decided to drop out. “I’m done. I’m good. I want to go home,” Stucky declared. “This is not something I want to do anymore.”

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TheAll Starsseason 4winner called the challenge “torture.” “I am peacing the f— out,” she told the cameras. “This is actually torture, so I do not want to be tortured.”

Nehemiah Clark landed in last place for the men after the daily challenge, too, and made his exit. Penultimate finisherTheo Campbellwent into elimination for the men against Devenanzio, 42, and theDeath, Taxes and Bananaspodcast host came out on top after taunting daily challenge winners Deal, 31, and Kyland Young in The Chamber.

Knowing that Deal wouldn’t put her ex-fiancé into elimination, Devenanzio decided to clip his toenails, file his fingernails and trim his beard during the deliberation.

“I know I’m going into The Arena, so I just want to make sure I look good doing it,” he told Deal and Young, 33. “And I’m ready to go.”

Campbell got to submit a karma vote upon his elimination after Devenanzio selected Fitzgerald, 34, Sorbello, 38, andOlivia Kaiseras the next targets. The seven-time champ also proved why he earned a spot onThe Challenge’s version of Mount Rushmore.

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