Garnering a crucial 154 points, Crimber more than quintuples his lead over No. 2 Dalton Kasel to 172 points in the race for the 2025 PBR World Championship

By Kacie Albert

St. LOUIS – Sports – Headlined by two round-winning, 90-point rides on Championship Sunday inside Enterprise Center, teenage phenom John Crimber (Decatur, Texas) won his second PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast event of the 2025 season by going 3-for-3 at PBR St. Louis, presented by Michelob ULTRA, in Missouri.

2024 PBR Camping World Team Series MVP Crimber has now won two of the first three elite series events in the individual Unleash The Beast season.

The 19-year-old superstar, who first rode to the winner’s circle at the season-launch event in mid-November in Tucson, Arizona, got off to a strong start in Round 1 on Saturday night in St. Louis, covering Mighty Mike (Braun Bucking Bulls) for 89.25 points.

The young gun then overtook the top spot on the event leaderboard in Round 2 on Sunday, recording the first monster 90-point ride of the tour stop by navigating three direction changes atop Whiskey Trip (Lari Crane/Gene Owen) for 91.25 points.

With the first selection in the championship round bull draft, Crimber chose UTZ BesTex Smokestack (Black Sharp/Chris Utz/Carey Brothers). The decision paid dividends as Crimber made a big correction in the early seconds of the ride to make the requisite 8. He was scored an event-best 91.5 points to clinch the victory.

Crimber earned $54,075, in addition to 154 points as he more than quintupled his lead over No. 2 Dalton Kasel (Muleshoe, Texas) in the early season standings. While Crimber, who rides for the Florida Freedom in the separate PBR Teams league, traveled to St. Louis with a mere 32.5-point lead, he is now 172 points in front.

“I’ve got to give all the glory to God; He’s the one who put me in this situation,” Crimber said. “I believe in Him andtrust in Him every time I get on.”

The reigning PBR Teams Champion Austin Gamblers’ Kasel went 1-for-3 to tie for 13^th inside the home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues. Kasel’s 88-point ride on Fringe Minority (Sterk Bucking Bulls) in Round 1 netted him 14.5 Unleash The Beast points.

As the only other rider to go a perfect 3-for-3, Julio Cesar Marques (Tatui, Brazil) was second in St. Louis, collecting 91.5 Unleash The Beast points.

Marques, a member of the 2024 PBR Teams regular-season Champion Kansas City Outlaws, rode Smoke City (Hilton Bull Co.) for 85.5 points in Round 1 and Ghost Face (Bierma Rodeo Inc./Coopers/Scruggs Bucking Bulls) for 87.5 points in Round 2 to punch his ticket to the championship round.

The reserved Brazilian then punctuated his outing in St. Louis with an 89.25-point effort atop Bueno (Blake Sharp/Huff Bulls) in the final round to cap a career-best weekend.

In the race for this season’s gold buckle, Marques catapulted from No. 30 to No. 6 in the standings, inching within 231.5 points of No. 1 Crimber.

Third was the Texas Rattlers’ Daniel Keeping (Montague, Texas).

Keeping earned 60.5 Unleash The Beast points via his 88-point ride atop Big X (Blake Sharp/Hanks/Wade) from Round 1 and 86.75-point score aboard Wooderson (Blake Sharp/UB Bucking Company) from Round 2.

Keeping, the penultimate out on Sunday, needed 87.75 points to take the lead before Crimber’s final out but lost his rope at the 7.76-second mark on Baldy (Blake Sharp/UB Bucking Company/Huff Bulls).

Unranked prior to the event, Keeping is now firmly ranked inside the Top 15, currently No. 13 and 275.5 points behind top-ranked Crimber.

Fourth was Anderson de Oliveira (Novo Mundo, Brazil).

Oliveira rode Feeds Red River (Blake Sharp/Huff Bulls) for 86.5 points in Round 1 before topping Whiskey Business (Blake Sharp/UB Bucking Company) for 87.5 points in Round 2. While he was initially centered on Doze You Down (Premier Livestock/Rafter KL) in the final round, he was ultimately unseated at the 4.37-second mark.

Leaving St. Louis with 46.5 Unleash The Beast points, Oliveira climbed from No. 14 to No. 8 in the 2025 World Championship standings, propelled within 246 points of the top spot.

Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was Dener Barbosa (Paulo de Faria, Brazil).

The newest member of the Austin Gamblers collected 38.5 Unleash The Beast points for his 86.25-point ride onCasper (Crescent City Bucking Bulls/Lari Crane/Gene Owen) and 87.25-point conversion on Mr. Right Now (Silent 7/Hilton Bull Co.).

Barbosa rose four spots in the standings, elevated from No. 13 to No. 9. He is now 252.5 points behind No. 1 Crimber.

In the bull pen, reigning YETI PBR World Champion Bull Man Hater (Jane Clark/Gene Owen) bucked supreme, anointed the YETI “Built for the Wild” Bull of the Event. The powerful bovine was marked an unrivaled 48.25 points for his 3.1 seconds of work against Clay Guiton (Cherryville, North Carolina) in the championship round.

In that same round, Magic Potion (K-C Bucking Bulls/Daniels Cattle Co.) made history in bucking off JaCauy Hale (Ganado, Arizona) in 1.91 seconds – the bull’s 42^nd consecutive buck off, tying the legendary Bushwacker for second all time.

Both days of action from St. Louis were available LIVE and FREE on RidePass on Pluto TV, PBR’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@pbr), PBR’s mobile app (https://qrco.de/bdtdKp), and PBR’s app on connected TVs, including Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku and Google TV.

PBR’s Unleash The Beast next travels to INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas, for PBR Wichita. The event will begin at 7:45 p.m. CT on Friday, Dec. 13 and Saturday, Dec. 14. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at SelectASeat.com and PBR.com, at the Select-A-Seat Box Office, or by calling PBR customer service at 1-800-732-1727.

PBR RidePass on Pluto TV will offer re-airs and on-demand replays of PBR Unleash The Beast events and is available on desktops, laptops and mobile devices via www.pluto.tv.

PBR Unleash The Beast
PBR St. Louis, presented by Michelob ULTRA
Enterprise Center – St. Louis, Missouri
Event Leaders (Round 1-Round 2-Round 3-Event Aggregate-Event Points)

1. John Crimber, 89.25-91.25-91.5-272.00-154 Points.
2. Julio Cesar Marques, 85.5-87.5-89.25-262.25-91.5 Points.
3. Daniel Keeping, 88-86.75-0-174.75-60.5 Points.
4. Anderson de Oliveira, 86.5-87.5-0-174.00-46.5 Points.
5. Dener Barbosa, 86.25-87.25-0-173.50-38.5 Points.
6. Clay Guiton, 86.75-86.25-0-173.00-32.5 Points.
7. Brady Fielder, 85.75-87-0-172.75-26 Points.
8. Keyshawn Whitehorse, 84.75-85-0-169.75-21 Points.
9. Sage Steele Kimzey, 89.75-0-0-89.75-32 Points.
10. Eduardo Aparecido, 89.5-0-0-89.50-19 Points.

(tie). Thiago Salgado, 89.5-0-0-89.50-19 Points.

12. JaCauy Hale, 0-88.25-0-88.25-18 Points.
13. Dalton Kasel, 88-0-0-88.00-14.5 Points.

(tie). Koltin Hevalow, 0-88-0-88.00-17 Points.

15. Claudio Montanha Jr., 0-87.25-0-87.25-13.5 Points.
16. Alex Cerqueira, 0-86.75-0-86.75-10 Points.

(tie). Paulo Eduardo Rossetto, 86.75-0-0-86.75-12.5 Points.

(tie). Boudreaux Campbell, 0-86.75-0-86.75-10 Points.

19. Lucas Divino, 0-86.5-0-86.50-8 Points.

(tie). Mason Taylor, 86.5-0-0-86.50-10 Points.

(tie). Marco Rizzo, 86.5-0-0-86.50-10 Points.

22. Kaique Pacheco, 86.25-0-0-86.25-8 Points.

(tie). Cort McFadden, 0-86.25-0-86.25-8 Points.

24. Andrew Alvidrez, 0-86-0-86.00-8 Points.
25. Nick Tetz, 0-85.75-0-85.75-8 Points.
26. Sandro Batista, 0-85.5-0-85.50-8 Points.
27. Heitor Santos Ferreira, 0-84.5-0-84.50-8 Points.
28. Leonardo Castro, 0-84-0-84.00-8 Points.

Jose Vitor Leme, 0-0-0-0.00

Dawson Branton, 0-0-0-0.00

Luciano De Castro, 0-0-0-0.00

Kaiden Loud, 0-0-0-0.00

Elizmar Jeremias, 0-0-0-0.00

Rogério Venâncio, 0-0-0-0.00

Adriano Salgado, 0-0-0-0.00

Derek Kolbaba, 0-0-0-0.00

Alan de Souza, 0-0-0-0.00

Austin Richardson, 0-0-0-0.00

João Ricardo Vieira, 0-0-0-0.00

Paulo Henrique da Silva, 0-0-0-0.00

Wingson Henrique da Silva, 0-0-0-0.00

Vitor Losnake, 0-0-0-0.00

Mauricio Gulla Moreira, 0-0-0-0.00

Bob Mitchell, 0-0-0-0.00

Dustin Martinez, 0-0-0-0.00

2025 PBR Unleash The Beast Standings

(Place, Rider, Events, Wins, Top 5’s, Points, Total Winnings)

1. John Crimber, 3, 2, 2, 336.00, $111,425.00
2. Dalton Kasel, 3, 0, 2, 164.00, $36,300.00
3. Jose Vitor Leme, 3, 1, 1, 147.50, $50,883.33
4. Andrew Alvidrez, 3, 0, 1, 118.75, $28,283.33
5. Koltin Hevalow, 3, 0, 1, 115.63, $14,600.00
6. Julio Cesar Marques, 3, 0, 1, 104.50, $26,825.00
7. Lucas Divino, 3, 0, 1, 92.50, $14,383.33
8. Anderson de Oliveira, 3, 0, 1, 90.00, $8,850.00
9. Dener Barbosa, 3, 0, 1, 83.50, $4,625.00
10. Eduardo Aparecido, 3, 0, 1, 80.50, $9,700.00
11. Mason Taylor, 3, 0, 1, 73.50, $6,425.00
12. Dawson Branton, 3, 0, 0, 66.88, $5,800.00
13. Daniel Keeping, 1, 0, 1, 60.50, $10,700.00
14. Claudio Montanha Jr., 3, 0, 0, 59.00, $4,975.00
15. Sage Steele Kimzey, 3, 0, 0, 57.00, $8,000.00
16. Nick Tetz, 2, 0, 0, 56.50, $0.00
17. Thiago Salgado, 3, 0, 0, 51.50, $7,200.00
18. Clay Guiton, 3, 0, 0, 48.50, $2,925.00
19. Kaique Pacheco, 3, 0, 0, 48.00, $3,300.00
20. Sandro Batista, 3, 0, 0, 45.75, $1,600.00
21. Luciano De Castro, 2, 0, 1, 45.50, $5,600.00
22. Kaiden Loud, 3, 0, 0, 42.50, $6,425.00
23. Elizmar Jeremias, 3, 0, 0, 40.00, $6,000.00
24. Rogério Venâncio, 3, 0, 0, 32.50, $2,000.00
25. Leonardo Castro, 3, 0, 0, 32.00, $450.00
26. Keyshawn Whitehorse, 2, 0, 0, 29.00, $1,500.00
27. Brady Fielder, 1, 0, 0, 26.00, $2,400.00
28. Daylon Swearingen, 2, 0, 0, 25.00, $2,250.00
29. Cort McFadden, 3, 0, 0, 24.00, $0.00
30. Alex Cerqueira, 3, 0, 0, 19.50, $0.00
31. Marco Rizzo, 3, 0, 0, 18.25, $0.00
32. JaCauy Hale, 2, 0, 0, 18.00, $4,000.00
33. Adriano Salgado, 3, 0, 0, 18.00, $1,000.00
34. Paulo Henrique da Silva, 3, 0, 0, 16.75, $0.00
35. Bob Mitchell, 1, 0, 0, 16.25, $0.00
36. João Ricardo Vieira, 3, 0, 0, 15.50, $0.00
37. Cassio Dias, 1, 0, 0, 14.50, $700.00
38. Paulo Eduardo Rossetto, 3, 0, 0, 14.50, $425.00
39. Derek Kolbaba, 3, 0, 0, 13.00, $450.00
40. Marcelo Procopio Pereira, 1, 0, 0, 11.63, $0.00
41. Alan de Souza, 3, 0, 0, 10.00, $0.00
42. Boudreaux Campbell, 3, 0, 0, 10.00, $0.00
43. Austin Richardson, 3, 0, 0, 8.00, $0.00
44. Heitor Santos Ferreira, 3, 0, 0, 8.00, $0.00
45. Mauricio Gulla Moreira, 3, 0, 0, 5.50, $0.00