PUEBLO, Colo. – There is still plenty of time before the YETI World Champion Bull title is awarded at the 2021 PBR World Finals on Nov. 3-7 in Las Vegas, but current world No. 1 Woopaa is putting up some of the best bull scores in recent memory.

Woopaa’s 48-point bull score during Jose Vitor Leme’s historic 97.75-point ride on July 31, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pushed his season average bull score to 46.68 points. If Woopaa were to finish the season with that average, it would be the highest average for a World Champion Bull since Bushwacker won his second world title with a 46.86 season average.

The 2021 YETI World Champion Bull will be the animal with the highest average bull score from their top eight regular-season outs and two outs at the PBR World Finals (Nov. 3-7 in Las Vegas).

In 2013, the World Champion Bull came down strictly to performance at the PBR World Finals after a short-list of contenders were announced based upon regular-season performance. If Bushwacker had bucked under the 2021 scoring system, he would have finished 2013 with a World Champion Bull average of 47.23 points based on his best eight regular-season outs and his two World Finals performances.

Woopaa is expected to make his eighth appearance of the 2021 season this weekend during the 15/15 Bucking Battle at the Bad Boy Mowers Mowdown in Little Rock, Arkansas, against Boudreaux Campbell. Campbell is 2-for-2 against Woopaa with 95.5-point (Kansas City, Missouri) and 95.25-point (Cheyenne, Wyoming) rides.

The 15/15 Bucking Battle airs Sunday on CBS national television at 12:30 p.m. ET.

With this week being YETI Bull Week, let’s look at some other statistics among this year’s top bovine athletes.

4: Three of the Top 10 bulls in the YETI World Champion Bull standings have been ridden four times – No. 1 Woopaa, No. 7 Chiseled and No. 10 Smooth Operator.

5: Woopaa leads the PBR with five YETI “Built for the Wild” Bull of the Event titles. No other bull has won more than two Bull of the Event titles.

47: There have already been five bull scores of 47 or more points this season: Woopaa (48, 47.25, 47.25), Ridin Solo (47) and Chiseled (47). Last year, there were only two: Smooth Over (47.5) and Chiseled (47).

11: No. 4 Marquis Metal Works Coriolis Effect is the only bull in the Top 10 with an undefeated record this season at 11-0.

3.58: Coriolis Effect has bucked off his 11 opponents in an average of 3.58 seconds.

13: No. 5 The Right Stuff leads World Champion contenders with 13 buckoffs in 16 outs.

5: The Top 5 bulls in the world are averaging the highest bull scores of their careers: Woopaa (46.68), Marquis Metal Works Red Clark (45.18), Ridin Solo (44.75), Marquis Metal Works Coriolis Effect (44.98) and The Right Stuff (44.79).

529: Heading into Little Rock, 529 different bulls have bucked at least one time on the Unleash The Beast for a total of 1,737 outs.

1,230: Bovine athletes on the premier series have a 70.8% buckoff percentage heading into Little Rock –1,230 buckoffs in 1,737 outs.

6: There is certainly parity among the top individual bucking bulls in the world standings. Six different stock contractors and their partners occupy the Top 10 – Laramie Wilson Hookin’ W Ranch, Jeremy Walker Paradigm Bull Company, Cord McCoy, Chad Berger, J.W. Hart and H.D. Page D&H Cattle Company.

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