GREEN BAY, Wis. – 2016 World Champion Cooper Davis was pretty sure he was going to watch 2017 World Champion Jess Lockwood walk away with the victory Sunday at the Green Bay Invitational, presented by Oneida Casino and North Star Mohican Resort and Casino.

Lockwood selected Big Black with the first pick of the championship round draft, and the consensus was that the 21-year-old would go to town aboard the K-Bar-C Bucking Bull like so many other riders and pick up his third event win of 2019.

However, Sunday was another reminder that there are no such things as home runs or easy scores in the toughest sport on dirt.

Big Black brought his A game, and he was able to dislodge Lockwood in 5.38 seconds to cost Lockwood a significant victory in the 2019 World Championship race.

“Sometimes you get the bad ones and sometimes you get the good ones, but either way we’ve got to do our job,” Lockwood said on RidePass prior to the championship round, which was a coincidental foreshadow.

Davis admittedly was surprised to see Lockwood get taken down.

“Honestly, I thought Jess was going to be a bunch of points,” Davis said. “Heck, I would have lost the house on that deal. I never would have dreamed he would fall off.”

Big Black was marked 45.25 points for the buckoff. The 5-year-old bull has bucked off Lockwood, Derek Kolbaba and Cody Jesus consecutively after being ridden for 90.25 points or higher in his first five outs in 2019.

“He just got beat out of there a little bit,” two-time World Champion Justin McBride said. “The bull kind hipped himself and rocked him back. He was just behind before that bull got going there.”

Green Bay was far from a failure for Lockwood, though.

Lockwood won his seventh round of the season earlier in the day at the Resch Center when he rode South Texas Gangster for 89.75 points to win Round 2 and pick up 100 of the 400 world points he earned.