“I don’t know if, moving forward, there is a Vacation Alliance for me.
I know that there is a friendship outside of the game,” Josh Martinez says.
Josh Martinezis ready to take a vacation from the Vacation Alliance onThe Challenge.
Josh Martinez, ‘The Challenge’.MTV
It’s unfortunate, but makes me more hungry for the next one."
Looking back on it now, do you think you played a good social game this season?
JOSH MARTINEZ:I think I had a great social game.
Josh Martinez, Jordan Wiseley, ‘The Challenge’.MTV
I think my game is just very out there.
It’s very clear who I’m aligned with.
I’m riding with the Vacation Alliance, and everybody knew my ties with Rachel and Johnny.
And I saw myself in the end with a lot of my close friends.
Did it suck that they were on different sides and they were going against each other?
People didn’t like my position and my stance in not choosing a side.
If it was anybody else, they know that I would’ve rode with the Vacation Alliance.
We saw the Vacation Alliance go down in flames this season.
What’s the status of that alliance moving forward?
I wish I had an answer for you.
They are very special people in my life.
I appreciate their friendship so much, and that’s never going to change.
Now, in the game, moving forward, I’m really disappointed.
I don’t know.
If moving forward there is a Vacation Alliance for me.
At the reunion I wanted closure and I wanted just an understanding of everything.
And if anything, I left with a bitter taste.
It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be.
I mean, the love is there and that’s what’s hard.
Who specifically do you not see yourself working with in the future?
Honestly, Devin I feel uneasy with.
I don’t know where we stand in the game.
How are you and Kaycee now after people criticized you for not trying to convince Rachel to save her?
That was really frustrating because I actually did fight for her, and Rachel knows that.
She had her mind set up, and I respect that.
I love her too much to make a run at influence her game.
I’ve done that in the past with Fessy.
He’s one of my best friends, and he ended up going home.
We got into a blow up and it sent him home.
How did Kaycee feel after she saw that episode?
It doesn’t matter.
I love Kaycee to death.
I always will have her back.
And is it a little uneasy seeing the things that she said, did it bother me a lot?
Calling me a liability?
F— yeah, that hurt.
But at the end of the day, I still love her.
We’ll see what happens in future seasons.
What was it like competing against Cory in that elimination?
My knee was the size of a softball.
I was just trying to buy myself time to heal.
When we weren’t in challenges, I was in bedrest, icing my knee, trying to recover.
I was in so much pain, it was even hard to jump on the semi truck.
To then run a full-blown sprint?
The one thing that I’m proud of is that I didn’t quit.
I didn’t half-ass it.
Was I scared for Cory to hit my knee in the pain that I was in?
But at that point it was literally do or die.
But I do wish him the best.
They couldn’t give me a shot.
They just gave me ibuprofen.
I would’ve given it my all either way.
I was just so frustrated that I wasn’t the healthiest that I could be.
I wake up in that house and the first thing I do is have my coffee and go train.
I’m a really active person.
It was really f—ing hard.
I was doing so good!"
I also didn’t want these guys to be like, “He’s weak.
Let’s go after him.
Let’s take him out.”
But everybody knew that I was limping around the house.
I couldn’t even go down the stairs.
So everybody knew that I wasn’t at my 100 percent, which sucked.
Back inDouble Agents, CT nicknamed you “the Goof.”
What did you think of that at the time and how has that impacted you the last few seasons?
I have truly evolved and I giveThe Challengea lot of credit.
I’ve become a way more confident version of myself.
And it’s thanks to being forced…. And I can proudly say that I have done that.
And I’m only 30.
I don’t need anybody to believe it.
I’m just going to go back home, work even harder, and come back stronger.
The Challenge: Battle of the Erasairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
