‘Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge’ to feature Fort Worth resident (updated)

Candice Wagner, a pro grid athlete and Marine Corps veteran from Fort Worth, will be featured in Sunday’s episode of Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, the CMT endurance-competition show.

Wagner is one of eight female competitors in this episode of the series, in which elite athletes come to former professional wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Ranch in South Texas, going head-to-head until one person is left to take on the “Skullbuster,” described as the toughest obstacle course in America, for a chance to win $10,000.

Before they get there, they compete in competitions such as Rip Off (objective: overpower your opponent and be the first to rip off bands from their ankles), Loaded (be the first to move chains to the top of a hill using the Broken Skull Challenge Yoke -- oh, yeah, and you pick up chains after the yoke is on your shoulders) and Dead Weight (drag a granite ball over two 12-foot-long, 5-foot-tall ramps -- and it’s a lot more complicated than that sounds).

Wagner, 31, was a martial-arts instructor when she served in the Marines and is described in a release as “an avid CrossFitter and a Professional Grid League athlete.” According to her grid-league bio, she served five years of active duty in the Marine Corps but struggled with an eating disorder when she got out of the military -- and overcame it through physical training. She is the co-owner of CrossFit Iron Horse on Vickery Boulevard in Fort Worth.

If she wins the $10,000 she plans to put a down payment on a new home.

A little over a year ago, Granbury mom Misti Pope competed on an episode of the show. Midlothian’s Justin Thompson competed on the Feb. 21 episode this season.

Austin, by the way, is a Texas native himself (he was born Steven James Anderson in, you guessed it, Austin) and attended what was then North Texas State University in Denton in 1986-’87. according to his bio. North Texas State became University of North Texas a year after Austin left.

This story was originally published February 22, 2016 at 12:56 PM with the headline "‘Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge’ to feature Fort Worth resident (updated)."