All-Around • Inducted 2022 Trevor Brazile always knew that he wanted to be known as a great All-Around Cowboy. After 26 World Titles, it seems that he has accomplished that goal. Since the time he was a young boy, he had a rope in his hand. He practiced at every opportunity...
All-Around • Inducted 2017 Austin “Buck” Rutherford hailed from the small northeast Oklahoma town of Lenapah. Rutherford lived as he rode – with fearless abandon. Competing in bareback riding, bull riding, saddle bronc riding and steer wrestling as a member of the Rodeo Cowboys Association, Rutherford was described by fellow all-around cowboy Bill...
All-Around • Inducted 2016 Dave Appleton was an elite competitor for 15 seasons in both bareback riding and saddle bronc riding. His versatility helped him reach the ultimate pinnacle of rodeo success when he won the 1988 all-around gold buckle. He defeated reigning three-time all-around champion Lewis Feild by $644 to claim...
All-Around • Inducted 2015 Tom Nesmith, a soft-spoken Oklahoma cowboy who was recognized as one of the most technically sound cowboys of his era, competed at an elite level as both a steer wrestler and tie-down roper for more than a decade, winning two gold buckles and qualifying nine times for the...
All-Around • Inducted 2000 Joe Beaver grew up dreaming of being a professional rodeo cowboy. Beaver, born Oct. 13, 1965, in Victoria, Texas, began his roping career at the age of 5, roping goats from the back of a Shetland pony in his family’s practice pen. By 15, Beaver was making...
All-Around • Inducted 2014 Pete Grubb was just the second cowboy in ProRodeo history – after Clay Carr – to win world championships at both ends of the arena. The Salmon, Idaho, cowboy won the bareback riding championship in 1938 and the team roping title (as a heeler) in 1940. He was...
All-Around • Inducted 2013 In a rodeo career that lasted 44 years, John Bowman earned the respect of his peers for a level of versatility and skill that has rarely been matched in the history of the Cowboy Sport. Bowman was the all-around world champion in 1936, and twice won gold buckles...
All-Around • Inducted 2009 One of the best all-around hands from the first half of the 20th century, Leonard Ward had his greatest year in 1934 when he won the saddle bronc riding, bareback riding and all-around world championships, becoming the first cowboy to achieve a Triple Crown by winning three...
All-Around • Inducted 2008 The world tie-down roping champion in 1979, Tierney put together an even better season in 1980 to end Tom Ferguson’s six-year reign as all-around champion and become the second rodeo cowboy to suppress $100,000 in earnings during a single season. Tierney, who typically competed in large, black-framed...
All-Around • Inducted 2006 Born in Ephrata, Wash., on March 14, 1954, Lybbert now makes his home in Forestburg, Texas. A Member of the PRCA since 1976, Lybbert excelled in the tie-down roping and steer wrestling, qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo eight times (1979-84, 1986, 1989) in the tie-down roping...
