Championship Bull Riding


Championship Bull Riding, Inc. was a professional bull riding organization that was based in Weatherford, Texas, United States.

History

Stock contractor Terry Williams and Texas businessman Joel Logan founded Championship Bull Riding in 2002. ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowboy and four-time world champion bull rider Tuff Hedeman was an integral part of the live event production and an ambassador for the organization from 2011 to 2018 after serving as president from 2005 to 2011. In early 2018, Hedeman left CBR to start his own organization: the Tuff Hedeman Bull Riding Tour.
For its 2016-17 season, CBR’s televised Road to Cheyenne Tour and its subsidiary Horizon Series visited over 70 venues across the United States.
From 2002 to 2007, CBR was broadcast on the Outdoor Channel, in 2008 on RFD-TV, from 2009 to 2011 on Great American Country and from 2012 to 2017 was broadcast on Fox Sports Networks.
The CBR world finals event was held in different locations of the United States throughout the years. From 2002 to 2005, the CBR finals were held in Jackson, Mississippi, from 2006 to 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2009 to 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011 in Loveland, Colorado and from 2012 to 2018 in Cheyenne, Wyoming at Cheyenne Frontier Days, held in conjunction with the annual Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo there.
From 2012 to 2018, CBR's televised Road to Cheyenne Tour was conducted in the proprietary "8 Second Challenge" format. 24 riders would compete in the first round, and those who made a successful 8 second ride got paid $500. The top 12 riders based on scores returned to the second round, and those who made a successful 8 second ride got paid $750. The top 4 riders in the second round would move on to the third and final round and each rider, regardless if they made a successful 8 second ride or not, got paid $1,000. If the event leader rode his bull in the championship round and ended up scoring the most points, he received up to a $20,000 bonus. However, in the middle of the 2018 season, due to many requests from contestants, CBR's Road to Cheyenne Tour returned to a previous competition format where 35 riders would compete in a regular season event for a purse of $30,000. All 35 riders would compete in the long round and the top 15 based on scores would compete in the championship round. The winner of the event would get paid a minimum of $10,000. When the regular season ended, the top 35 riders in the world standings would qualify for the CBR world finals event. The rider who won the most points throughout the whole season was crowned the CBR World Champion.
From 2010 to 2018, CBR awarded its annual world champion a $100,000 bonus, and from 2013 to 2017, the winning rider of the world finals event average was awarded $50,000.
CBR went out of business after its 2018 world finals. The event itself was produced by the Professional Bull Riders and live-streamed on their subscription-based video-on-demand service, RidePass.

CBR World Champions

YearRank/TeamTotal Season ScoreEvents Attended
2018Jerilyn Harmon's Elite Bulls #334.003
2017Burleson / Barnett #134.003
2016Elite Buckin Bulls #334.003
2015Rawson Bucking Bulls #135.003
2014Harris Bucking Bulls31.003