Ep. 526: From Messy to MAYHEM w/ Faysal Shafaat
Challenge Mania
Challenge Mania
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Sure we know him as Fessy...Faysal...but this was our first sit down with MAYHEM! Hear the awesome story of how Faysal wound up on American Gladiators, got the name Mayhem, whether he gets along with the other Gladiators and what it taught him about The Challenge and how fans in our world feel about him. Recorded Live & In Person w/ Skutch Media.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:11.6 | This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania. |
| 0:15.3 | This episode brought to you by Challenge Mania Live, Boston. |
| 0:19.3 | We've got two Boston shows coming up, end of May, May 22nd, May 23rd. |
| 0:24.4 | The 23rd is sold out. |
| 0:25.6 | That's the roast of Cara Maria. |
| 0:27.1 | But the 22nd still has tickets available, as do our Pacific Northwest duo of shows |
| 0:32.4 | featuring CT himself. |
| 0:34.4 | That is June 27th and June 28th in Portland and Seattle. Get tickets to those in all of our |
| 0:39.7 | shows at Challengemania.com. This show is also technically brought to us by the reboot of American |
| 0:45.9 | Gladiators, which is back on Amazon Prime every Friday. They're dropping multiple episodes. |
| 0:50.8 | You can already watch six of them now, probably more by the time you watch or listen to this episode. |
| 1:10.8 | Speaking of watching it, if you're just listening to it and you want to see it in gorgeous full video, go to challengemaniacs.com and join the pod squad. Trust me, we make it worth your while with video, bonus podcasts, early and ad-free audio and first crack ad tickets. All right, you didn't come for me, You came for D. |
| 1:12.6 | So as always, I'm joined by Derek. |
| 1:10.9 | But today, we are joined by a man who was formerly known as Fessie, then known as Fessel. |
| 1:19.1 | But today, and going forward, he is known as Mayhem. |
| 1:24.0 | Hey, Mayhem came to play. |
| 1:25.9 | You ain't never seen a big man move this style, boy. |
| 1:31.2 | Release the hounds right on the heels of the firefighter. |
| 1:35.4 | My goodness. |
| 1:37.1 | And wow, Ben gets slammed down by Mayhem. |
| 1:41.1 | Oh, Mayhem just knocking slowly all the way backwards. |
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