BUTCH MYERS Steer Wrestler Inducted 2026 Butch Myers grew up in a rodeo family. He and his sisters competed in Little Britches and High School Rodeo, and he won his first saddle at age 11. He continued on to compete in college rodeo for Colorado State University. Myers won the NIRA World Champion...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 2001 C.R. Boucher may not have competed in rodeo growing up, but he certainly made up for it with a career spanning more than three decades. He was one of the most versatile cowboys in ProRodeo history. Contestant, chute boss, pickup man and board member are just...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1998 Although his birth certificate says Scott Berry, everyone in rodeo knows him as Ote, thanks to his sister who gave him his nickname as a toddler. She thought that her brother walked like a television comic character named Otis, which was shortened to Ote. Berry, born...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1996 Despite a strong family rodeo tradition, John Jones, Jr., did not become interested in the sport until age 15, preferring to play football, baseball and basketball. When Jones decided to rodeo, he quickly developed winning skills. He was the California High School Rodeo Association tie-down roping...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1994 Gene Ross, born Jan. 23, 1904, in Sayre, Okla., was known as a good bronc rider and tie-down roper, but his best event was steer wrestling. He won the world steer wrestling title in 1929, the first year “official” championships were awarded. He started his career...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1989 Bill Pickett, born in 1870, is credited with founding bulldogging or steer wrestling, as it is known today. Legend has it that Pickett resorted to biting the lip of a recalcitrant steer to wrestle it to the dirt to get it into the corral. Pickett moved...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1979 Jack Roddy, born Oct. 3, 1937, in San Francisco, competed in his first RCA rodeo at the age of 14 and won $90 in the wild horse race. Early participation in rodeo was not unusual for the youngster who grew up on the family ranch near...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1979 Homer Pettigrew holds the steer wrestling record for both total and consecutive world titles at six and four, respectively. He won his six within eight years, and in 1947 and 1949-50, he was second in the world, which made him the dominant steer wrestler for a...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1979 Harley May, born June 2, 1926, in Deming, N.M., won the world steer wrestling championship title in 1952, his first year in the Rodeo Cowboys Association. He won a total of three world crowns, and 26 years after his first one, he was still a top...
Steer Wrestling • Inducted 1979 John W. Jones. Sr., born June 26, 1932, in Fresno, Calif., excelled on the PRCA’s biggest stage, winning the National Finals Rodeo’s aggregate title three consecutive years and a record four times overall. The Rookie of the Year in 1956, Jones’ world bulldogging title came in...
