STETSON WRIGHT CAPTURES FIFTH-CONSECUTIVE ALL-AROUND TITLE

 

Superstar Stetson Wright has added another world championship to his resume. The Milford, Utah, cowboy clinched his fifth career PRCA All-Around World Championship and eighth overall. Despite being sidelined after Round 2 of the 2023 Wrangler NFR in his two events – saddle bronc riding and bull riding – because of a right hamstring strain, Wright clinched the all-around crown with $479,621. 

"This is awesome," said Wright, 24, about winning the all-around title. "Through everything that happened here recently, the humbling experience that I have been a part of. To know that I blew everybody out of the water so much that I didn't have to win a penny at the Finals in order to win this is pretty special. This will be a world title I will not forget. I stopped thinking about world titles after I pulled myself out of the NFR. I just wanted to be healthy and it is pretty special to win something like that when you're not even able to finish the richest ten days of the year."
 
Wright's world title collection consists of all-around titles in 2019-23, bull riding (2020, 2022) and saddle bronc riding (2021). Team roping header Nelson Wyatt was the only cowboy who could mathematically catch Wright in the all-around race, but that's not the case anymore.
 
Wyatt, a team roping header, is competing at the NFR with heeler Jonathan Torres. Wyatt is second in the all-around standings with $195,489.
 
Wright joins a select group of ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowboys – Joe Beaver, Roy Cooper, Don Gay, Larry Mahan, Don McLaughlin, Rich Skelton, Harry Tompkins and Fred Whitfield – who have won eight PRCA World Championships. There are only 18 cowboys in PRCA history to win at least eight world championships.
 
ProRodeo Hall of Famer Trevor Brazile has the PRCA record with 26 world championships, including a record 14 in the all-around...more