Australian Brady Fielder finishes third in opening round to rise to No. 2 in the race for the 2025 PBR World Championship
Seventeen riders record a score on the opening night of the progressive elimination event inside Dickies Arena
By Kacie Albert
FORT WORTH, Texas – As the first-ever PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Last Cowboy Standing, brought to you by PlainsCapital Bank, got underway Tuesday night at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, Daniel Keeping (Montague, Texas) and Rogerio Venancio (Guzolandia, Brazil) rode supreme, tying for the Round 1 win at the progressive elimination tour stop.
Keeping, who rides for the hometown Texas Rattlers in the separate PBR Teams league, and Venancio both delivered 86.75-point rides inside Dickies Arena. Keeping outlasted Rock ‘n Roll (Raymond & Coy Henry/Lidgard), while Venancio topped Walk Hard (Ace of Spades/McGuire/Martinez), each collecting 23 Unleash The Beast points.
In the race for the 2025 PBR World Championship, Keeping rose from No. 25 to No. 24, while Venancio climbed from No. 37 to No. 35.
Fellow Texas Rattler Brady Fielder (Clermont, Queensland, Australia) was third.
The charismatic Australian rode Oyster Creek Brawler (Farris Cattle/Big Schott Rodeo) for 86.5 points. The bronze showing earned Fielder 17 Unleash The Beast points. While he began the event ranked No. 3 in the 2025 gold buckle battle, he’s now tied with the Austin Gamblers’ Lucas Divino (Nova Crixas, Brazil) for No. 2 in the world, 77.5 point behind No. 1 John Crimber (Decatur, Texas). Neither Divino, nor the Florida Freedom’s Crimber, are competing in Fort Worth.
Fourth was defending Last Cowboy Standing event champion Ezekiel Mitchell (Rockdale, Texas).
The affable Texan’s 86.25-point ride on Body Roc (Cooper/Scruggs Bucking Bulls) netted him 16 Unleash The Beast points.
Rounding out the Top 5 in fifth was the Carolina Cowboys’ Daylon Swearingen (Piffard, New York).
Swearingen, the first-ever PBR World Champion crowned inside Dickies Arena in 2022, made the requisite 8 atop Fiesta (Stockyards Pro Rodeo) for 85.75 points. He earned 15 Unleash The Beast points, rising from No. 28 to No. 26 in his quest to become a two-time PBR World Champion.
The remaining riders advancing to Round 2 with a score are the: New York Mavericks’ Mauricio Moreira (Gaviao Peixoto, Brazil); Austin Gamblers’ Kaique Pacheco (Itatiba, Brazil); Missouri Thunder’s Paulo Eduardo Rossetto (Colorado, Brazil); Kansas City Outlaws’ Koltin Hevalow (McAlester, Oklahoma); Missouri Thunder’s Boudreaux Campbell (Crockett, Texas); Oklahoma Wildcatters’ Cort McFadden (Novice, Texas); Arizona Ridge Riders’ Keyshawn Whitehorse (McCracken Spring, Utah); New York Mavericks’ Leandro Zampollo (Pirassununga, Brazil); Kansas City Outlaws’ Julio Cesar Marques (Tatui, Brazil); Arizona Ridge Riders’ JaCauy Hale (Ganado, Arizona); Arizona Ridge Riders’ Luciano De Castro (Guzolandia, Brazil); and Nashville Stampede’s Anderson de Oliveira (Novo Mundo, Brazil).
The remaining eight riders advancing to Round 2 based on their rank in the Unleash The Beast standings prior to the start of the event are the: Austin Gamblers’ Dalton Kasel (Muleshoe, Texas); Nashville Stampede’s Alan de Souza (Taubate, Brazil); Missouri Thunder’s Andrew Alvidrez (Seminole, Texas); Texas Rattlers’ Claudio Montanha Jr. (Ribeirao dos Indios, Brazil); New York Mavericks’ Leonardo Castro (Cassilandia, Brazil); Kansas City Outlaws’ Sandro Batista (Pedra Preta, Brazil); Nashville Stampede’s Austin Richardson (Dallas, Texas); and Austin Gamblers’ Dener Barbosa (Paulo de Faria, Brazil).
Action for the PBR Last Cowboy Standing, brought to you by PlainsCapital Bank, will conclude on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Action gets underway at 7:30 p.m. CT. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com.
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PBR Last Cowboy Standing, brought to you by PlainsCapital Bank
Dickies Arena – Fort Worth, Texas
Event Leaders (Round 1-Round 2-Round 3-Round 4-Round 5-Event Aggregate-Event Points)
- Daniel Keeping, 86.75-0-0-0-0-86.75-23 Points.
(tie). Rogério Venâncio, 86.75-0-0-0-0-86.75-23 Points.
- Brady Fielder, 86.5-0-0-0-0-86.50-17 Points.
- Ezekiel Mitchell, 86.25-0-0-0-0-86.25-16 Points.
- Daylon Swearingen, 85.75-0-0-0-0-85.75-15 Points.
- Mauricio Gulla Moreira, 84.75-0-0-0-0-84.75-14 Points.
- Kaique Pacheco, 84.5-0-0-0-0-84.50-13 Points.
- Paulo Eduardo Rossetto, 84.25-0-0-0-0-84.25-11.5 Points.
(tie). Koltin Hevalow, 84.25-0-0-0-0-84.25-11.5 Points.
- Boudreaux Campbell, 84-0-0-0-0-84.00-10 Points.
- Cort McFadden, 83.75-0-0-0-0-83.75-9 Points.
- Keyshawn Whitehorse, 83.25-0-0-0-0-83.25-8 Points.
- Leandro Zampollo, 82.75-0-0-0-0-82.75-8 Points.
- Julio Cesar Marques, 82.5-0-0-0-0-82.50-8 Points.
- JaCauy Hale, 82-0-0-0-0-82.00-8 Points.
- Luciano De Castro, 81-0-0-0-0-81.00-8 Points.
- Anderson de Oliveira, 80.5-0-0-0-0-80.50-8 Points.
Felipe Furlan, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Trace Redd, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Dalton Rudman, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Manoelito de Souza Junior, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Alan de Souza, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Miguel de Jesus, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Max Castro, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Andrew Alvidrez, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Leonardo Castro, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Eric Henrique Domingos, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Wyatt Rogers, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Claudio Montanha Jr., 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Alex Cerqueira, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
João Ricardo Vieira, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Dener Barbosa, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Mason Taylor, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Dalton Krantz, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Elizmar Jeremias, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Austin Richardson, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Dalton Kasel, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Lucas Martins Costa, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Sandro Batista, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Eduardo Aparecido, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
Vinicius Pinheiro Correa, 0-0-0-0-0-0.00
