Wes won his first season in 2006 at the age of twenty-one. He won the Duel, the FIRST INDIVIDUAL season of the Challenge. He overcame the odds to win a game that would host 9 future champions out of the 10 male cast members. To put it in perspective, Wes beat Brad, Derrick, Kenny, Evan, Bananas, Tyler, and C-to-the-motherf’ing-T in an individual game where players could call each other out. Thirteen years later, we have seen multiple Wes iterations, from frat boy with a mohawk to entrepreneur with his own company with multiple locations. At the end of the day, Wes Bergmann is still kicking ass on the Challenge and playing the character we like to hate and like to love.

Mohawk Wes

On Fresh Meat 1, Wes came into the Challenge world with quite the ego, coming off an iconic Real World season. RW Austin is likely the last “All Time” seasons of the franchise as later seasons dwindled in quality, and later in viewers. Wes entered the season with three of his Austin cast members, one of his best friends (Danny), and his girlfriend (Johanna), who he was finally able to woo after a season-long conquest on RW. However, Wes was partnered with Casey Cooper, one of the worst competitors in Challenge history. To make matters worse, the veterans in the game aligned together and threw in the rookies (Austin) again and again.

Wes did not play it cool, because he had a mohawk, a hot girlfriend, and an ego, he thought he had clout, but in this way he actually earned respect from fans by winning exile after exile. Wes won five eliminations on Fresh Meat 1 and finished in 3rd place on his rookie season. His placementgot Casey Cooper some new boobs which we could all appreciate, and we knew Wes wasn’t just an ego, he was an actual competitor and hard-worker. Now, he did have a bit of temper and treated both Casey and Johanna poorly, but he greaty changed his rhetoric when working with females in future seasons.

Duel Wes