BY DC CUEVA
The game has changed considerably on The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines as we have a Double Shot of back-to-back episodes coming our way tonight to end 2015. By way of both an elimination and two injuries, THREE teams were eliminated last Wednesday including two veterans with finals experience and a third who made his mark this year on MTV. And in place of one of them comes a popular Challenge veteran who's also the boyfriend of a top contender in Turkey. That provides the context for this dedicated edition of DC ExtraTime, as DCBLOG once again takes you beyond the screens for a unique look at the MTV Trifecta and its people.
Now, a Challenge tradition here is that if there's a rookie competing for the first time or if there's someone returning to the show after a long hiatus, then we provide a capsule of them in an early-season feature we call, "Who Are These Newbies?". Every new competitor since Rivals II has been profiled there, and if you were with us for our Bloodlines preview, we introduced passionate Challenge fans to Christina, Cory, Dario and Tony, and newcomers to veteran KellyAnne.
This time, with this season turned completely upside down and a new castmate & bloodline coming to Turkey to replace an injured Tony & brother Shane and returning to this world, we thought that we would introduce the newbie/returnee to you in a much different manner than we usually do here. For some inspiration, I had to look beyond this world and to my other primary passion of the sports world.
If you're a football fan who watches NFL Network, a staple of the channel's schedule is the documentary series A Football Life, which profiles various figures in the league - players, coaches, owners & the like - with stories told by them and interviews with everyone associated with the subject. That provides the inspiration for a post I like to refer to as, A Challenge Life, and with so many great Challenge veterans out there, simply doing a simple, brief write-up wasn't sufficient enough.
The addition of Abram to this Bloodlines season is the perfect subject for this special edition of DC ExtraTime that will look at his career on the MTV airwaves. And instead of doing an entirely original write-up on him, this will be a combination of both an original portion written by me - which will be provided later in the post, and a portion in letting the man himself do some of the talking as well.
We went into the MTV.com archives to dust off some nostalgia from when he first made his MTV debut on what was then part of the original MTV Trifecta - Road Rules South Pacific all the way back in 2003. Here starting after the jump, we'll share you a bio written - and some of 20 Questions answered - by the fearless veteran back from when he first earned his MTV stripes. Then, we'll offer some reflection on The Challenge Life of Abram Boise.
