Contract Personnel • Inducted 1979 For nearly three decades, Homer Holcomb of Addy, Wash., was known as a world champion rodeo clown and bullfighter. He broke into rodeo in 1932 in Bozeman, Mont., in a show produced by John Ringling of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus fame. He won...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1979 Known to all in rodeo as the “Kajun Kid,” Dudley Gaudin left Baton Rouge, La., at the age of 15 to ride bareback horses and bulls with a Wild West show. When the show broke up, he went to Texas to enter rodeos as a bull...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1979 He was the first professional rodeo barrelman/clown. Extremely short-legged and slow, Fulkerson needed a sanctuary in large arenas, so he built a barrel reinforced on the outside with old automobile tire casings. His frantic dashes to the barrel and plunges into it inspired awe and applause...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2023 Kenny Clabaugh has had many names over his nearly forty-year career as a rodeo pick-up man. “The Invisible Man” and “Mr. Smooth” have been two of the most popular. Clabaugh has earned these monikers due to his uncanny ability to be in the right place at...
Contract Personnel • Class of 2022 Raised on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, LA, Rick Young did not set out to become a rodeo clown and bull fighter. He really wanted to be a colligate football player after earning All-State accolades in both football and basketball. However, the 5’9”...
Contract Personnel • Class of 2020 Sunni Deb Backstrom grew up with a stopwatch in her hand. No doubt encouraged by her mother Ellen, a three-time National Finals Rodeo Secretary and first woman to sit on the PRCA Board of Directors. At age 13, Backstrom made her debut as a rodeo...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2019 Tommy Lucia’s rodeo career started at the age of 15 riding bareback horses and bulls. When a friend was injured, he filled in as the clown and bull fighter. At 20, he made the switch to fulltime bull fighting. At the urging of George Doak, Lucia...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2018 Luke Leon Coffee grew up around horses, rodeo, and football. He competed as a junior rodeo contestant in bull riding, bareback riding, steer wrestling, and calf roping. He joined the U.S. Army after high school and served for three years. After encouragement from friend and bullfighter Michael...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2017 Prior to his induction into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017, Randy Corley had been selected PRCA Announcer of the Year 12 times (1984, 1990-96, 1998, 2003, 2011, and 2015). He also had been an announcer at the National Finals Rodeo 16 times. Originally a bareback riding...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2016 Phil Gardenhire, a five-time announcer at the National Finals Rodeo, joined the PRCA in 1984 and was widely known for helping reintroduce the “mounted announcer” to ProRodeo while working astride his handsome paint horse. He announced the NFR in 1985, 1987-89 and 1993, and also worked the Clem...
