Ohio bull riding fans will get the opportunity to experience the toughest sport on dirt when the Professional Bull Riders Blue DEF Velocity Tour bucks into Quicken Loans Arena on Saturday, August 16 at 7 p.m.
For one day only, the best up-and-coming bull riders in the world will face off with foes nearly 10 times their weight in sinewy brawn during the most thrilling eight seconds in sports! Each rider will face off against at least two of the rankest bulls on the planet. At the end of the competition, the rider with the highest combined score will be crowned the champion.
Get to know one of the riders, Brandon Davis!
Brandon Davis Bio-
Born: August 25, 1989
Age: 24
Hometown: Cabot, Arkansas
Current City: Medina, Ohio
Brandon Davis began riding bulls at the age of 12 in the Ozark Teenage Rodeo Association (OTRA) in Arkansas. Davis immediately began in the senior division and therefore never got started in mutton busting, which so many riders do.
A friend of the Davis family rode bulls and provided Brandon with all the equipment and expertise needed to get started. At the age of 14 Davis moved to Lodi, Ohio where he started riding in The National American Bullriding Association (NABA).
In 2009 Davis moved back to Ohio after graduating from High School in Jacksonville, Arkansas. He chose an event called Buckin’ Ohio which was run by Denny and Shawn Thorsell for his first Southern Extreme Bullriding event (SEBRA).Coming into his first finals in 2010, Davis racked up $7,500 in winnings during his first year on the SEBRA circuit. That was enough to secure him a spot in his first-ever SEBRA National Finals event in Asheville, N.C.
Davis has now made the finals five years in a row. He credits his childhood dreams of being a cowboy and a professional bull rider as his inspiration to get started. He remembers running around the house, riding couch cushions at the age of 8, telling his mother he was going to a World Champion Bull Rider one day.
