PBR Canada’s Elite Cup Series Returns to Red Deer, Alberta, for Fourth Consecutive Year to Launch the 2025 Season on February 1, 2025

RED DEER, Alta. – For the fourth consecutive year, PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Canada’s elite Cup Series will buck into Red Deer, Alberta, launching the 2025 season for the nation’s premier series with the PBR Red Deer Classic, at the Peavey Mart Centrium at Westerner Park on February 1.

PBR Canada’s Cup Series regularly features Canada’s best riders alongside some of the organization’s top international athletes, squaring off against the rankest bucking bulls from across the nation.

For one night only, fans will witness exhilarating 8-second rides and wrecks throughout the action-packed event as the PBR’s courageous bull-riding athletes face off against their 2,000-pound opponents born to buck.

The PBR Red Deer Classic will mark the 2025 season launch for the PBR Canada Cup Series.

When the Cup Series last travelled to Red Deer in February 2024, Jake Garnder (Fort St. John, British Columbia) rode supreme, going a perfect 2-for-2, to win the first Major of the year, victorious at the PBR Red Deer Classic.

Gardner began the event inside Peavey Mart Centrium in commanding form, tying for the second-best score of Round 1 as he covered Highway to Heaven (Flying High Rodeo Co.) for 85 points.

The charismatic British Columbia native then clinched the event win in the championship round when he conquered Broken Pearl (Kinky Buckers) for 87 points.

The golden finish earned Gardner a crucial 200 national points. He vaulted from No. 5 to No. 1 in the early race for the 2024 PBR Canada Championship and accompanying $100,000 bonus. He overtook then No. 2 Cody Coverchuk (Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan) by 15 national points.

The season prior, Jared Parsonage (Maple Creek, Saskatchewan) was flawless in winning the 2023 PBR Red Deer Classic event title. When the elite Cup Series debuted in Red Deer in 2022, Jake Gardner (Fort St. John, British Columbia) rode his way to the winner’s circle compliments of a perfect 2-for-2 effort.

Prior to the debut of the PBR Canada Cup Series in Red Deer, the city held two developmental Touring Pro Division events in 2015 and 2016, both won by Garrett Green (Meeting Creek, Alberta). 

The bull riding action for PBR Canada Cup Series’ Red Deer Classic, begins at 7:00 p.m. MT on Saturday, February 1, 2025.

Tickets for the event go on sale Friday, November 15 at 10:00 a.m. MT, and start at $25, plus fees, and can be purchased at the Tickets Alberta Box Office located in the Peavey Mart Centrium foyer, online at TicketsAlberta.com, or charge by phone at (866) 340-4450.

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