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PBR February 7 & 8

  • 12 Sep 2024
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Professional Bull Riders returns to Delta Center on February 7 & 8, 2025. Tickets go on sale this fall, more information to come! Please find the national tour announcement below. 
 
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PBR Announces 2025 Competition Schedule for Elite Unleash The Beast

Premier Unleash The Beast to hold 23 regular season events, prior to three-part World Finals across Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas at Cowtown Coliseum and AT&T Stadium

PBR’s Unleash The Beast to debut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Palm Springs, California, while returning to Wichita, Kansas, and Ontario, California, for the first time in more than a decade

FORT WORTH, Texas (August 26, 2024) – The PBR (Professional Bull Riders) today announced its 2025 competition schedule for its elite Unleash The Beast, set to bring the world’s top 40 bull riders and rankest bovine athletes to 25 cities across 20 states.

Throughout the seven-month individual season, the premier Unleash The Beast will hold 23 regular season events, highlighted by PBR’s debut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the first-ever elite tour event in Palm Springs, California, and a return to both Ontario, California, and Wichita, Kansas. The season will conclude with the 2025 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast in Texas. The sport’s most prestigious event will begin in Fort Worth at Cowtown Coliseum with Eliminations from May 8-11 and Ride For Redemption from May 14-15, concluding with the Championship in Arlington at AT&T Stadium from May 17-18.

For the third consecutive season, the Unleash The Beast campaign will begin in Tucson, Arizona, at Tucson Arena, when the 2025 season opens on Nov. 15-16, 2024.

The following weekend, on Nov. 23-24, for the first time in nearly 15 years, the premier series will travel to Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. While the PBR Pendelton Whisky Velocity Tour visited the city annually from 2014-18, the Unleash The Beast hasn’t bucked in Ontario since August 2010.

PBR premier series competition will continue throughout December, as the Unleash The Beast bucks back to St. Louis, Missouri, for the 26th time, stopping at the Enterprise Center on Dec. 7-8, before returning to INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas on Dec.13-14 for the first time since 2011. Wichita returns to the Unleash The Beast schedule after the city has held a popular Velocity Tour event annually since 2014.

The Unleash The Beast will then return to the Northeast holding events in Manchester, New Hampshire (SNHU Arena), and Albany, New York (MVP Arena) on Dec. 20-21 and Dec. 27-28, respectively.

The 2025 calendar year will begin with PBR’s 18th trip to the “World’s Most Famous Arena,” as Madison Square Garden in New York City hosts the Unleash The Beast on Jan. 3-5.

Following return trips to both Chicago, Illinois (Jan. 10-11 | Allstate Arena) and Houston, Texas (Jan. 17-18 | Toyota Center), the Unleash The Beast will debut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at PPG Paints Arena on Jan. 24-25, one year after the premier series sold-out a three-day event in nearby Johnstown.

The Unleash The Beast will then return to California for the second time during the 2025 season, visiting Golden1 Center in Sacramento, California on Jan. 31-Feb. 2. The fan-favorite event in California will be followed by just the sixth ever Unleash The Beast event held in Salt Lake City, Utah, when the premier series returns to Delta Center, home of the NBA’s Utah Jazz and the National Hockey League’s Utah Hockey Club, on Feb. 7-8.

PBR’s Unleash The Beast will also visit Indianapolis (Feb. 14-15 | Gainbridge Fieldhouse) and Jacksonville, Florida (Feb. 22-23 | VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena) to conclude February, before an action-packed start to March, including return trips to Milwaukee, Wisconsin (March 1-2 | Fiserv Forum), Little Rock, Arkansas (March 8-9 | Simmons Bank Arena) and Louisville, Kentucky (March 15-16 | KFC Yum! Center).

The Unleash The Beast will then travel West, returning to California and debuting at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on March 21-23, before the season concludes with events in New Mexico, South Dakota, Billings and Nampa. For the first time in history, Tacoma will host the Unleash The Beast’s regular-season finale inside the Tacoma Dome before the World Finals to be held on April 26-27.

The PBR’s crown jewel, the 2025 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast, will return to the Lone Star State for the fourth consecutive season in May, again featuring a unique three-part, tournament-style format that will crown the 2025 PBR World Champion. Eliminations (May 8-11) and Ride For Redemption (May 14-15) will again take over Cowtown Coliseum, setting the 25-rider field that will compete at the Championship, scheduled for May 17-18 at AT&T Stadium in nearby Arlington, which will ultimately determine the season’s World Champion. For nearly two weeks, PBR will bring North Texas non-stop bull riding action like never before, along with can’t-miss, fun-for-all-ages fan programing throughout the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

The 2025 schedule announcement follows an historic 2024 individual campaign, as the PBR broke numerous attendance and competition records.

During the 2024 season, the premier Unleash The Beast hosted more than 536,000 fans, including selling out 18 event days.

On the dirt in 2024, a dominant Cassio Dias (Sao F. de Sales, Brazil) etched his name in the PBR record books inside AT&T Stadium, crowned the 2024 World Champion.

Persevering through what appeared to be a season-ending injury sustained during Eliminations, Dias, who donned the chaps of the late Lane Frost in his quest for bull riding glory, was released from the hospital and several days later outlasted a hard-charging John Crimber (Decatur, Texas) to become just the second rider in history to win the World Championship and Rookie of the Year honor in the same season.

2025 PBR UNLEASH THE BEAST SCHEDULE

DATE                                     CITY                                                                           VENUE

Nov. 15-16, 2024           Tucson, Arizona                                                 Tucson Arena

Nov. 23-24, 2024          Ontario, California                                           Toyota Arena

Dec. 7-8, 2024                St. Louis, Missouri                                           Enterprise Center

Dec. 13-14, 2024          Wichita, Kansas                                                INTRUST Bank Arena

Dec. 20-21, 2024          Manchester, New Hampshire                  SNHU Arena

Dec. 27-28, 2024          Albany, New York                                              MVP Arena

Jan. 3-5, 2025                 New York City, New York                             Madison Square Garden

Jan. 10-11, 2025            Chicago, Illinois                                                 Allstate Arena

Jan. 17-18, 2025            Houston, Texas                                                  Toyota Center

Jan. 24-25, 2025            Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania                            PPG Paints Arena

Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2025   Sacramento, California                               Golden1 Center

Feb. 7-8, 2025                 Salt Lake City, Utah                                        Delta Center

Feb. 14-15, 2025           Indianapolis, Indiana                                     Gainbridge Fieldhouse

Feb. 22-23, 2025           Jacksonville, Florida                                       VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena

March 1-2, 2025            Milwaukee, Wisconsin                                 Fiserv Forum

March 8-9, 2025            Little Rock, Arkansas                                     Simmons Bank Arena

March 15-16, 2025      Louisville, Kentucky                                        KFC Yum! Center

March 21-23, 2025      Palm Springs, California                              Acrisure Arena

March 28-30, 2025      Albuquerque, New Mexico                        The Pit

April 4-6, 2025                Sioux Falls, South Dakota                          Denny Sanford PREMIER Center

April 12-13, 2025          Billings, Montana                                              First Interstate Arena at MetraPark

April 18-19, 2025          Nampa, Idaho                                                         Ford Idaho Center

April 26-27, 2025          Tacoma, Washington                                     Tacoma Dome

* May 8-11, 2025           Fort Worth, Texas                                             Cowtown Coliseum

* May 14-15, 2025        Fort Worth, Texas                                             Cowtown Coliseum

* May 17-18, 2025        Arlington, Texas                                                 AT&T Stadium

* 2025 PBR World Finals

For more information about the PBR and the 2025 PBR Unleash The Beast schedule, to check out ticket on-sale dates, and to purchase tickets, visit PBR.com.

Stay tuned to PBR.com for the latest news and results and be sure to follow the sport on all social media platforms at @PBR.

About PBR (Professional Bull Riders):

PBR is the world’s premier bull riding organization. More than 800 bull riders compete in more than 200 events annually across the televised PBR Unleash The Beast tour (UTB), which features the top bull riders in the world; the PBR Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour (PWVT); the PBR Touring Pro Division (TPD); and the PBR’s international circuits in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. In 2022, the organization launched PBR Teams—eight teams of the world’s best bull riders competing for a new championship—as well as the PBR Challenger Series with more than 60 annual events nationwide. The organization’s digital assets include PBR RidePass on Pluto TV, which is home to Western sports. PBR is a subsidiary of Endeavor, a global sports and entertainment company. For more information, visit PBR.com, or follow on Facebook at Facebook.com/PBR, Twitter at Twitter.com/PBR, and YouTube at YouTube.com/PBR.