World’s best bull riders dominate Friday night inside Fiserv Forum going a torrid 24-for-40, covering a torrid 60% of Round 1’s bovine athlete opponents

By KACIE ALBERT

MILWAUKEE – In front of a sold-out, Saturday night crowd in Milwaukee, Kaique Pacheco (Itatiba, Brazil) continued to ride red hot, delivering a monster 90-point ride to win Round 1 of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast’s PBR Milwaukee.

For the second consecutive week, Pacheco won Round 1 of the Unleash The Beast event after earning a re-ride and teaming with his second bovine athlete opponent, Mike’s Motive (Blake Sharp/High Voltage/Wetzel/Knott), for a mammoth 90-point score.

After dominating the first night of Jacksonville with a 90.5-point score, 2018 PBR World Champion Pacheco, who rides for the Austin Gamblers in the separate PBR Teams League, registered a 90.25-point score Saturday evening inside the home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks in Wisconsin.

Pacheco’s latest round-winning score garnered him 29 Unleash The Beast points as he chases his second World Championship this May. Pacheco remained No. 8 in the world, now 284 points behind No. 1 Brady Fielder.

Should Pacheco remain atop the leaderboard when the dust settles on championship Sunday, the win would mark his third in Milwaukee amongst the six Unleash The Beast events ever held in the city.

Fielder finished 11^th in Round 1 to remain atop the standings. He rode Easy Labor (Addi Drury/Nothin’ But Try Ranch) for 86.5 points to collect 9 Unleash The Beast points.

The Texas Rattler grew his lead over No. 2 John Crimber (Decatur, Texas) to 128.5 points.

The Florida Freedom’s Crimber, however, prevented Fielder from growing his lead by a greater margin by tying for 14^th in Round 1. He rode Peterbilt (Blake Sharp/Michael Floyd/WSM Auctioneers) for 85.5 points, netting 8 Unleash The Beast points.

Pacheco, Fielder and Crimber were three of the 24 riders who converted in Round 1 of PBR Milwaukee. Going 24-for-40, the competing riders rode 60% of the evening’s bovine athlete opponents.

Returning to the top of the event leaderboard, Sage Steele Kimzey (Strong City, Oklahoma) and Elizmar Jeremias (Anapu, Brazil) tied for second, each logging an 89-point score to earn 17.5 Unleash The Beast points.

Austin Gambler Kimzey conquered Skippy (Skippy & Linda Johnson/Hookin’ W Ranch), remaining No. 5 in the world. He is now 202.25 points back of No. 1 Fielder.

Florida Freedom rider Jeremias topped Magic Touch (Phenom/Lewis/Fay/Bohlmann/Dragonetics/Sankey), climbing from No. 23 to No. 20 in the standings.

Koltin Hevalow (McAlester, Oklahoma) was fourth, collecting 16 Unleash The Beast points.

Hevalow outlasted Constant Payne (Flying S/Kasel/Payne) for 88.5 points, remaining No. 16 in the world.

Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was the Florida Freedom’s Thiago Salgado (Navirai, Brazil).

Salgado bested Bugatti (Phenom Genetics/Dragonetics/Sankey/Wallace) for 88.25 points. Netting 15 Unleash The Beast points, Salgado maintained his world No. 38 rank.

Action for the 2025 PBR Milwaukee will conclude with Round 2 and the championship round on Sunday, March 2. Action gets underway at 1:45 p.m. CT. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com and PBR.com.

Both nights of competition in Milwaukee will be available LIVE and FREE on PBR’s X channel (https://x.com/PBR), 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. The stream for PBR Milwaukee continues Sunday, March 2.

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 Milwaukee
Fiserv Forum – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Event Leaders (Round 1-Round 2-Round 3-Event Aggregate-Event Points)

1. Kaique Pacheco, 90.25-0-0-90.25-29 Points.
2. Sage Steele Kimzey, 89-0-0-89.00-17.5 Points.

(tie). Elizmar Jeremias, 89-0-0-89.00-17.5 Points.

4. Koltin Hevalow, 88.5-0-0-88.50-16 Points.
5. Thiago Salgado, 88.25-0-0-88.25-15 Points.
6. Clay Guiton, 87.75-0-0-87.75-14 Points.
7. Keyshawn Whitehorse, 87-0-0-87.00-13 Points.
8. Austin Richardson, 86.75-0-0-86.75-11 Points.

(tie). Vinicius Pinheiro Correa, 86.75-0-0-86.75-11 Points.

(tie). Mason Taylor, 86.75-0-0-86.75-11 Points.

11. Brady Fielder, 86.5-0-0-86.50-9 Points.
12. Felipe Furlan, 86-0-0-86.00-8 Points.
13. Trace Redd, 85.75-0-0-85.75-8 Points.
14. John Crimber, 85.5-0-0-85.50-8 Points.

(tie). Alan de Souza, 85.5-0-0-85.50-8 Points.

16. Cort McFadden, 85-0-0-85.00-8 Points.
17. Luciano De Castro, 84.5-0-0-84.50-8 Points.

(tie). Andrew Alvidrez, 84.5-0-0-84.50-8 Points.

19. Claudio Montanha Jr., 84.25-0-0-84.25-8 Points.
20. Paulo Eduardo Rossetto, 83.25-0-0-83.25-8 Points.
21. Leandro Zampollo, 82.25-0-0-82.25-8 Points.
22. Kaiden Loud, 81.75-0-0-81.75-8 Points.
23. Dawson Branton, 81-0-0-81.00
24. Wyatt Rogers, 69-0-0-69.00

Dalton Kasel, 0-0-0-0.00

Lucas Divino, 0-0-0-0.00

Sandro Batista, 0-0-0-0.00

Julio Cesar Marques, 0-0-0-0.00

Anderson de Oliveira, 0-0-0-0.00

Dener Barbosa, 0-0-0-0.00

Eduardo Aparecido, 0-0-0-0.00

Adriano Salgado, 0-0-0-0.00

Leonardo Castro, 0-0-0-0.00

João Ricardo Vieira, 0-0-0-0.00

Boudreaux Campbell, 0-0-0-0.00

Daniel Keeping, 0-0-0-0.00

Daylon Swearingen, 0-0-0-0.00

Bob Mitchell, 0-0-0-0.00

Bruno Carvalho, 0-0-0-0.00

Pokey Houghton, 0-0-0-0.00