10. Mark Long

If you were not aware, Mark Long is a giant dude. He is 6'3 and 220 lbs of muscle. How this dude never found a way to join the WWE like the Miz, I’ll never know. The one weakness for Mark in a physical fight is that is he too nice of a guy. Mark is someone who would get stabbed in the knee with a fork too easily. His good nature would be the end of him.

9. Nelson Thomas

People like to clown Nelson thinking he is a fake tough guy. I think 99% of the guys on the show are fake tough guys. My problem with that assertion about Nelson is the dude could mess some people up. When we talk about strength and degree of fitness, Nelson is on the fitness level of his abs look like they can cut someone.

Add in that Nelson works as a strip club manager where he’s had to deal with shady people in the past, I think Nelson is one of the low-key scary people in a fight.

8 Derrick Kosinski

Derrick is a major Game of Thrones fan. He fights with the same ferocity of the faster swordsman from the franchise. Derrick is nowhere near the biggest guy — but he will use his speed and will find the right spot or angle to hit. The difference between Derrick and other people is that Derrick will get multiple hits in on you before you take your first swing. Besides getting him with a full on tackle, Derrick is a dangerous guy who will do anything to win.

7 Drunk Landon Lueck

A sober Landon is not ready to get dirty to win. A drunk Landon’s competitive and crazy nature is a scary thing when you mix in the fact that he’s possibly the most athletic guy in Challenge history. Landon was a top ten wrestler in the state of Wisconsin in high school, and has said that nothing on the Challenge has really every been that difficult for him. He also messed up Derrick’s ear on the Inferno 2.

6 Ryan Knight

This one might throw you off as Knight was never in the best shape on these shows. However, on the Challenge Rivals 2, he told Marlon that he was going to melt down his toothbrush into a shank and stab him. Add in his past as a hockey player, Knight is not someone you wanted to get into a fight with. If you’re at a bar and want to get into a fight with him, expect a shattered beer bottle in your back and broken pool cue over your head.

5 Abram Boise

On Battle of the Bloodlines, Abram’s scary moment was during his brother’s elimination. Apparently, for an entire forty minutes, Abram screamed like an animal, berating his brother through the entirety of the elimination in order to motivate. He is the same person who cuts himself to remind him that he is a human. He goes into the woods and burns himself after a major life moment. I don’t want to be in the same room as Abram, let alone get in a fight.

4 LeRoy Garrett

When LeRoy was on the Real World, he lived with a psychotic person (Adam Royer). A crazy person was breaking bottles and got in LeRoy’s face. LeRoy looked him in the eyes with no fear and said there’s nothing he’s not willing to say to his face that he would say behind his back. LeRoy’s physical dominance scares crazy people. That is something you do not want to go up against.

3 The Miz

My apologies to wrestling fans if this video of the Miz doesn’t do him justice.

2 Darrell Taylor

While the hits are real, wrestling is fake. Boxing is real. Darrell was a regional Gold Gloves Boxer. He has fast hands, quick feet, and strong force in his fists. We saw when Brad got into it with him on the Ruins, that getting into a fight with Darrell is a possible death sentence.

Darrell is the perfect mix of size, speed, and strength. Small enough to be quick on his feet — big enough to compete with the heavyweights. From the pure fighting standpoint, Darrell is the best.

1 Chris Tamburello (CT)

CT once said that he would bash someone’s skull and eat it in.

In terms of fighting, Darrell has the formal techniques down. On the other hand, CT has years of life experience getting into bar and alley fights. If Prime CT and Darrell got into a fight, right when Darrell thought CT would be going for a right hook, CT would instead be trying Darrell’s nose or ear off.

As a 240 lb wolverine, no man would ever want to take on CT.