In 2023, an additional $305,000 will be included in the rider prize pool, raising the total from $2,580,000 to $2,885,000. With $375,000 shifted from the Championship event to regular-season events, riders will be paid $72,500 per event compared to $50,000 in 2022.

All games during 11-event season to be carried on the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, CBS Sports Network or Pluto TV.

For every rider, the ultimate goal is to qualify for the PBR World Finals, the richest bull riding event on the planet, with the season champion receiving the golden World Championship buckle and $1 million bonus.

Ty MurrayProfessional Bull Riders / FounderTy Monroe Murray, is an American nine-time World Champion professional rodeo cowboy. He was one of the top rodeo contestants in the world from the late 1980s to early 2000s. He is one of the co-founders and a board adviser of the Professional Bull Riders. Wikipedia

A bucking bull between 3-4 years old can earn as much as $500,000 with the ABBI at competitive bucking events. As these athletes get older their earning power is primarily PBR round money and bonuses, as well as their genetic (semen and offspring) value.

The now-doubled Champion's bonus increases the total payout of the PBR Canada National Finals to an unprecedented $225,000. This makes the 2023 Canadian National Finals to be held Nov. 17 and 18 the richest in Canadian history. The Canadian year-end event is now also the richest international Finals in PBR's history.

As of Oct 7, 2023, the average hourly pay for a Professional Bull Riding in the United States is $17.95 an hour.

PBR Teams takes what was nearly 30 years an individual sport and puts riders on teams. The world's best compete on teams in 5-on-5 bull riding games during an 11-event season culminating in a championship at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Oct. 20-22.

In PBR Team Series competition, each team sends out five riders in alternating fashion. The riders' scores are added together, and whichever team has the highest total score after all five rides is the winner. Coaches have to carefully determine the order of their riders, and can even challenge the legality of a ride.

Charreadas were an old Mexican tradition where farmers and ranchers showed off their skills with the horses and other animals, and part of this was seeing how long they could hang on to a bull.

bull riding, rodeo event in which the contestant attempts to ride a bucking bull for eight seconds while holding with one hand a braided rope made of nylon or Manila that is wrapped around the animal's chest. A weighted cow bell attached to the rope pulls it free when the ride is over.

Comes raring out of there jumping out of there. I'm ready to counteract his moves. Free arm just right up in front of you like this. And when you go to slide up keep your toes keep your toes straight.