Although the cast list for Paramount+'s iteration of MTV's long-running reality competition The Challenge has yet to be confirmed, the returning players for The Challenge: All Stars 3 have allegedly been spoiled already.
Stop Being Polite posted some possible spoilers for the upcoming season of the series, and there are some major Challenge heavy hitters who are coming back to compete. The male challengers who have come back for All Stars really live up to that particular title, and honestly, it's anyone's game. But who has the best shot of winning?
Syrus Yarbrough
Syrus has actually never gotten his due when it comes to being a pretty solid and well-rounded competitor. There isn't anything that he's particularly bad at, and it's not hard to imagine a world where he makes it to the end of a Challenge season.
However, modern final challenges are extremely reliant on long-distance running, so even if Syrus can make it to the final, the likelihood that he gets there with someone who can't beat him in a foot race is very low.
Tyler Duckworth
Tyler Duckworth is a former multi-season winner of The Challenge, and he made it somewhat far in season 2 of All Stars. But if he's going to win the upcoming season of All Stars, it's going to be an uphill battle.
He doesn't have a lot of strong established relationships with the male cast members of this iteration of the show, and as a former winner, most of his competitors will want to see him gone. He'll be an easy name to call out for eliminations.
Laterrian Wallace
Laterrian has a bit of an edge over Tyler for a few reasons. First, he hasn't won a Challenge. And second, if he is on All Stars 3, then he will have been on every season so far, and he has developed better friendships with a lot of his fellow challengers.
But, just taking the other incredibly strong competitors on this season into consideration, it doesn't seem extremely likely that he would make it to a final without someone who can beat him in that final.
MJ Garrett
Winning a season of The Challenge can be both a blessing and a curse. The obvious upside is that winners walk away a whole lot richer and can add this accomplishment to their resume. But the downside is that when they return for another season, most of the other players will be looking to get rid of them.
MJ definitely made a name for himself by winning season 2 of All Stars, but if he scores a win again, it's probably not going to be in All Stars 3.
Wes Bergmann
Poor Weston. Despite being one of the greats, he hasn't had the best luck in recent seasons, and that's largely due to his reputation as a Challenge snake and a very formidable player.
Wes is great at the game and luckily he's going to be competing with his bestie Nehemiah, but he's an instant target every time he shows up on a Challenge season, and he'll undoubtedly have to win an elimination or two to make it to this final.
Nehemiah Clark
In his original run on The Challenge, Nehemiah was never a part of the mob that typically ran the entire game. But All Stars has seemingly flipped the world on its end, and now he and his allies are the huge power players in the game.
He masterfully outplayed his opponents in season 2 and made it all the way to the end. But now his competitors are likely going to be looking to boot him first, so season 3 will be much harder.
Mark Long
Mark Long is truly the dictionary definition of a Challenge all-star, and a huge reason why he had such an illustrious Challenge career in the past is because he is genuinely friends with everyone. Having that many strong alliances can get players pretty far, and Mark is still a force to be reckoned with.
However, the likelihood that some of the other guys competing this season could beat him in a final is also pretty high.
Yes Duffy
Yes won the first season of The Challenge All Stars, and he smartly skipped season 2. Although his reason for missing All Stars 2 is unknown, it could actually be incredibly beneficial for him.
He will be a threat that other players will want to eliminate, but now, many returning competitors have recently developed enemies who will undoubtedly be going after each other before they start trying to get rid of Yes, making his chances for All Stars 3 a bit better.
Brad Fiorenza
Brad has always been an incredibly solid competitor whose talents seem to favor him in a Challenge final.
And what's more, there seem to be quite a few other players on the All Stars 3 cast list that would likely align themselves with Brad, and even those who wouldn't probably aren't going to be going after him first. If Brad can avoid being thrown into multiple eliminations then his chances of killing a final are pretty high.
Derrick Kosinski
Luck clearly wasn't on Derrick's side in All Stars 2, but he was the victim of some masterful manipulative gameplay that he'll obviously be on the lookout for in All Stars 3. And aside from that, Derrick is an absolute Challenge elimination beast.
He's incredibly hard to beat one-on-one, and he has the record to prove it. He's always been one of the strongest competitors on the series, and honestly, his chances of winning are always pretty good.
Darrell Taylor
Darrell has had a bit of bad luck in his most recent Challenge appearances, but "bad luck" in terms of Darrell Taylor means making it to the end of the season and coming in second rather than easily winning the entire thing.
He has been the runner-up in All Stars 1 and 2, so it would come as no surprise if he breaks his losing streak this season and finally becomes a Challenge champ again.
Jordan Wiseley
Realistically speaking, Jordan is the biggest threat in this Challenge cast. That will predictably make him the biggest target, but he's not an easy player to beat. He has one of the best Challenge elimination records in the history of the show, and his skill set is tailor-made to win a final.
In order to stop Jordan from winning, he'll either have to be thrown into multiple eliminations or another contestant on the season will have to get lucky in the final challenge.