SWEARINGEN, PACHECO CAP 2024 PBR SEASON WITH MONSTER RIDES AT WORLD FINALS

It was not the season Daylon Swearingen had in mind, but it is in the past and the 2022 PBR World Champion is all about “right now.” 

Coincidentally, Sunday afternoon, he closed out his 2024 season with an impressive 89.25 points on a bull named Mr. Right Now, and promptly proclaimed, “Now (it is) time to get to work on PBR Teams.” He tied his season-high score a week after riding Hoka Hey for 89.25 points to advance directly to the final stage of this year’s World Finals at AT&T Stadium.

The 24-year-old Swearingen finished 10th in the average at the Finals and moved up to 15th in the yearend world standings behind fellow Monster Energy bull rider Kaique Pacheco. Pacheco finished the year ninth in the world. 

The 29-year-old from Brazil capped off the season riding four of the last six bulls he faced. In the opening stage of the Finals, he was solidified his place at AT&T Stadium with 89.75 points on Smokestack, a bull he has now ridden all three times they have faced one another, but it was seemingly pedestrian 83.25 points a night earlier that proved to be one of his more fundamentally sound rides that eventually set up the scores he made on the final weekend.

Pacheco rode I’m Legit Too for 89 points, but more importantly the fundamentals he honed a week earlier led to “a big-time effort,” which was exactly what he needed to make the 8-second whistle on Legit for the first time in their four matchups. 

The 2018 PBR World Champion and veteran Monster Energy rider closed his season Sunday afternoon and secured a top 10 finish for 2024 with 88.75 points on Mahan. 

Boudreaux Campbell was focused on a grander picture when the 25-year-old Texan took to social media following the season: “The (2024) PBR World Finals didn’t go as planned. But I’m blessed to wake up and be a cowboy and do what I love every day.” 

Campbell finished the season 28th in the world standings, while Jose Vitor Leme was 36th in the world despite only competing in six of more than 20 events. 

Leme, who said “I miss it already,” along with Pacheco, Swearingen, and Campbell along with Chase Outlaw and Derek Kolbaba—both of whom missed the entire elite, televised 2024 individual season because of injuries—will return to competition in July as part of the PBR Team Series.  

Leme and Pacheco are with the Austin Gamblers, Swearingen and Kolbaba are with the Carolina Cowboys, Campbell is with the Missouri Thunder, and Outlaw is a member of the Nashville Stampede.