As the PBR's Unleash The Beast bucks into Duluth, Georgia's South Gas Arena Jan. 21-22 during the tour's eighth event of the 2023 season, PBR.com is highlighting some of the series’ latest winners, top rides, Unleash The Beast standings and beyond!

• THREE'S COMPANY: After winning his season-debut in New York City, two-time PBR World Champion

  Jose Vitor Leme

  didn’t let off the gas at the most recent Unleash The Beast event, logging back-to-back victories by going a perfect 3-for-3 in Chicago to collect his second event win of the season. Now amidst a five-out ride streak via a collective 7-for-8 (87.5%) effort this season. The veteran has now won back-to-back events four times in his career, however, only once prior has he won three in a row. He accomplished that feat in 2020 when he dominated consecutive weekends in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fort Worth, Texas, and Billings, Montana. Leme also finished second in the tour stop’s accompanying 15/15 Bucking Battle compliments of his 88-point score atop

  The Right Stuff

• STILL ON TOP: For the third consecutive week,

  Andrew Alvidrez

  will travel to the Unleash The Beast tour stop ranked No. 1 in the heated race to be crowned the 2023 PBR World Champion. After winning back-to-back events to begin the season in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Albany, New York, Alvidrez retained his position atop the standings last weekend in Chicago compliments of a fourth-place finish in the 15/15 Bucking Battle and an eighth-place result in the main event. The pair of Top 10 finishes earned him 51 Unleash The Beast points. Alvidrez will look to hold off a hard-charging and world No. 2 Leme this weekend in Duluth, first paired up with

  Nigel

  in Round 1 of the PBR Gwinnett Chute Out

• LOCKWOOD RETURNS: This weekend’s event in Duluth will feature the much-anticipated return of two-time PBR World Champion

  Jess Lockwood

  . The veteran last rode in PBR competition during the February 2022 Unleash The Beast event in Oklahoma City and has been sidelined by a variety of injuries since. While he declared for the PBR Team Series Supplemental Draft and was taken as the No. 1 pick by the

  Oklahoma Freedom

  , he never competed for the team due to an injury sustained in the practice pen. When Lockwood returns to the chutes this weekend, he will first go head-to-head with

  Spotted Rust

  in Round 1 Saturday night.

For all of the statistics, stories and standards heading into this weekend's PBR Gwinnett Chute Out, be sure to check out this week's Game Notes!

Photo courtesy of Andy Watson/Bull Stock Media

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