This
year the Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo was proud
to welcome the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) performing as
part of the PBR Challenger Tour Series. The Earl Warren Show
grounds which only holds 2,700 people means every seat is
a great seat - an intimate experience. Professional Bull Riding
will return to the Fiesta Rodeo on July 31st, 2008.
The rules are simple. Place a wiry 150-pound
cowboy on the back of a hulking, snorting temperamental 2,000
pound bull and see if he can ride the beast for an eternal
eight seconds...with one hand strapped to the massive bull.
Headquartered
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Professional
Bull Riders (PBR) was created in 1992 when a group of
20 bull riders broke away from the traditional rodeo scene
and decided to start a circuit for bull riders only. They
felt that, as the most popular event in a rodeo, bull riding
deserved to be in the limelight and could easily stand alone.
Each rider invested a hard-earned $1,000, a few of them borrowing
from family and friends, to start the PBR. Today the PBR is
still owned by its athletes and is the only professional sport
able to make such a claim. In 2003, the PBR celebrated its
10th Anniversary and relished the title of the fastest growing
extreme sport in the country. "The PBR is very proud
of its first 10 years in existence, but we are certainly excited
about all of the possibilities the next ten years have in
store." said PBR CEO Randy Bernard."
Professional Bull Riding is a fierce,
rough, and grueling sport with roots deep in American culture.
It's America's original extreme sport. The PBR has turned
it into a captivating, dangerous, on-the-edge-of-your-seat
sporting event, with the best riders and bulls in the world.