Bareback Riding • Inducted 2010 Paul Mayo, along with his brothers, Don and Bob, and Jim Houston, is credited with altering the style of bareback riding in the 1960s, taking a position farther back on the horse, and literally lying down on the horse’s back as it went over the peak...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2010 A five-event cowboy in his youth, Kansan John McBeth eventually focused on saddle bronc riding and became one of the dominant riders of his generation, qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo 11 times, including 10 years in succession (1965-74, 1978). In his world championship season...
Notables/Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2010 Often identified as the most talented bull rider never to win a world title, Denny Flynn, of Charleston, Ark., qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 10 times (1974-82, 1985) and set a record for most bull riding average titles won at the NFR (1975, 1981-82), later...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2010 Rex Dunn was selected to work three National Finals Rodeos (1983, 1985-86), two Canadian Finals Rodeos and 13 circuit finals over a 16-year professional bullfighting career in which his deceptively effortless style earned him the nickname “Mr. Smooth.” He twice finished second in the Wrangler Bullfighting standings...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2010 The Beutler name has been synonymous with stock contracting since 1929, when brothers Elra, Jake and Lynn Beutler began providing stock to Oklahoma and Texas rodeos. Jake and Lynn – a member of the inaugural ProRodeo Hall of Fame induction class of 1979 – kept the...
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...
Bull Riding • Inducted 2009 The PRCA Rookie of the Year in 1980, when just a year out of Manteca (Calif.) High School, Ted Nuce competed in his first National Finals Rodeo at 21 and was as consistent as any bull rider of his era. Nuce won the world championship in...
Saddle Bronc Riding • Inducted 2009 Dan Mortensen was born December 16, 1968 in Billings, Montana. His six saddle bronc riding world championships (1993-95, 1997-98 and 2003) tied the legendary Casey Tibbs for the event record. He also won the all-around world championship in 1997, edging fellow Hall of Fame inductee...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2009 After a decade of producing amateur rodeos, Erv Korkow joined the PRCA in 1958 and formed Korkow-Sutton Rodeo Company with fellow South Dakota stock contractor James Sutton Sr. They had stock in every National Finals Rodeo from its inception in 1959 through the dissolution of their...
Lifetime Achievement • Inducted 2009 Just 15 years, 11 months old when he qualified for the National Finals Rodeo the first time in 1962 – the second-youngest competitor in NFR history – Ace Berry remained a fixture there into the mid-1970s, competing at both ends of the arena. The Oakdale, Calif.,...
