List of Professional Bull Riders Champions


This List of Professional Bull Riders Champions provides lists of all the world champion title winners, including one livestock award which are won during the PBR World Finals event in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are the World Champion bull riders, World Champion Event winners, World Champion Bulls, and Rookie of the Year, for example. Also listed are the winners of various awards that are given out at the PBR Finals. The Professional Bull Riders organization is an international professional bull riding organization based in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. In the United States, PBR events have been televised on CBS and CBS Sports Network since 2013. More than 1,200 cowboys from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and other countries hold PBR memberships. This article lists all the various champions and awards that have been bestowed since the founding of the Professional Bull Riders in 1992.

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This article presents a list of major champions and honors won by Professional Bull Riders. have their own article which lists the Ring of Honor, Ty Murray Top Hand Award, Brand of Honor, Jim Shoulders Award, and the Sharon Shoulders Award.

World Champions

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World Finals Event Champions

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Rookie of the Year

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World Champion Bull

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• Bodacious was also the 1994–1995 PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year. Now that Bruiser has won the PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year award for 2017, he and Bodacious are the only bulls to win both the PRCA and PBR titles. Each bull won their two titles in the same year. Bodacious won both of his titles in 1995, while Bruiser won both of his titles in 2017.
•• There was actually a tie between Bruiser, Long John and Pearl Harbor, which was resolved by taking the sum of the bull's best eight outs for the season. That is done according to the PBR rules as the first way to resolve a tiebreaker.

Touring Pro Division Champions

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Velocity Tour Champions

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International Champions

Canada

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Mexico

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Brazil

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Australia

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World Cup

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Global Cup

The PBR has some secondary awards, in addition to the World Championship, given out annually, many named after bull riders fatally injured during competition.
The Lane Frost/Brent Thurman Award is for the highest-scoring single ride at the World Finals. It is named for Lane Frost, fatally injured during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo in 1989, and Brent Thurman, fatally injured during the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas in 1994.
The Glen Keeley Award is for the Canadian bull rider who earns the most points throughout the entire season. It is named for Glen Keeley, a Canadian bull rider who died of injuries during the 2000 Ty Murray Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Mason Lowe Award is for the highest-scoring single ride during the regular season of the Unleash the Beast Series. Mason Lowe was an American bull rider who died of his injuries after being stepped on by a bull on January 15, 2019, during a PBR Velocity Tour event at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado.
The Rookie of the Year award goes to the rookie bull rider who wins the most points of all first-year competitors.
The Stock Contractor of the Year award goes to the stock contractor who has supplied the best bulls to Built Ford Tough Series events. This award is given based on a vote among bull riders.
The PBR also has some recognition awards. Some of these like the Ring of Honor and the Brand of Honor are the equivalent of a Hall of Fame recognition. There is also the Jim Shoulders Lifetime Achievement Award and the Sharon Shoulders award.

Lane Frost/Brent Thurman Award recipients

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Glen Keeley Award recipients

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Mason Lowe Award recipients

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Bull of the Finals

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High Money Bull of the Regular Season

Awarded to the bull who earned the most money for the bull riders in the regular season. Discontinued after 2013.
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