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PUEBLO, Colo. – This coming weekend, at the Express Ranches PBR Tulsa, presented by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, some of the best up-and-coming bulls in the country will take center stage.
Round 1 in Tulsa will be an ABBI Classic round, with the top Classic bulls competing against the best bull riders in the world.
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This is where the true legacy of bucking bulls can first be glimpsed: sons of the greats. Two-time YETI World Champion Bull Ridin’ Solo has four sons in the draw in Tulsa – Goin Solo, The CEO, Buckshot, and Thriller. Mr. Demon is the son of Spotted Demon, Whiskey Business is the son of Hocus Pocus, and Fast Flow is the son of Air Time, to name a few.
Notably, three-time World Champion SweetPro’s Bruiser has three sons competing in Tulsa – King Tut, King of Spades, and PIF.
PIF, which stands for “pay it forward,” is a bull to keep an eye on, as his origin story is full of good juju.
In June 2020, Gene Baker owned the calf, and the two were at the ABBI’s American Heritage in Duncan, Oklahoma. One morning that weekend, Baker was preaching and said he felt a calling to raffle off a calf. He did, and stock contractor Cord McCoy won.
McCoy decided to… well, pay it forward and give the calf away.
A couple of young helpers caught his eye – Grason and Weston Lopez, who had been shagging dummies at the event all weekend for a payment of $20 and a hat.
“They were so excited just to get to help,” Brooke Kurz-Lopez, their mother, posted on Facebook. “They really didn’t care about what they’d get for doing it... if they cared they’d definitely request more because they were SO tired hustling 330 dummies between just the two of them lol — And you could tell because towards the end of each day they became slower and slower but never quit!”
That Saturday, Terry Starnes announced that McCoy would be giving his calf away, and that Grason and Weston would be receiving it.
“They told me when they heard it they didn’t believe it,” Kurz-Lopez wrote. “As soon as they seen Cord behind the chutes they went and shook his hand and thanked him.”
At the end of the event, Jim McClain, the president and CEO of the Professional Bullfighters, did the final raffle for a stock trailer. McCoy won that one, too.
(Since 2020, McCoy’s bull Ridin’ Solo went on to win two consecutive YETI World Champion Bull titles – the first gold buckles McCoy has won in his career.)
“Thank you Cord for making these two little boys’ world,” Kurz-Lopez wrote. “You blessed them big! We have not stopped hearing about how excited they are to own a Bruiser bull calf. They’ve already named him PIF — stands for ‘Pay It Forward.’
“And for the record — the boys were paid more than $20 and it was also paid forward.”
PIF (McCoy Rodeo/Lopez/Neil) will face off against Mason Taylor in Round 1 in Tulsa as he makes his Unleash The Beast debut (Jan. 19 at 8:45 p.m. ET on RidePass on Pluto TV).
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PIF’s brother, King Tut, will have the steep task of taking on Joao Ricardo Vieira in his first Unleash The Beast out. Vieira attempted King Tut’s dad five times, amassing a 2-3 record against the legendary bovine. One of those qualified rides was for 90.5 points en route to Vieira’s win at Iron Cowboy in 2015.
No matter how these Classic bulls do, two young boys have already had their lives changed by one big act of kindness.
“I think I need to clarify to them that not every time they shag dummies at a futurity you get a Bruiser calf,” Kurz-Lopez wrote, “but we have turned this into an example to show them that hard work pays off and they know exactly how to pay it forward in the future.”
Photo courtesy of Josh Homer/Bull Stock Media