PBR Canada’s Elite Cup Series Returns to Red Deer, Alberta, for Fifth Consecutive Year to Launch the 2026 Season on January 31

RED DEER, Alta. – For the fifth consecutive year, PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Canada’s elite Cup Series will buck into Red Deer, Alberta, launching the 2026 season for the nation’s premier series with the PBR Red Deer Classic, at Marchant Crane Centrium on January 31.

PBR Canada’s Cup Series, which set tour records in eleven cities in 2025, welcoming more than 75,000 fans, 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 2026 season launch for the PBR Canada Cup Series.

When the Cup Series last travelled to Red Deer in February 2025, welcoming a record-setting, sold-out crowd, Dakota Buttar (Eatonia, Saskatchewan) rode supreme, going a perfect 2-for-2 to win the event and overtake the then No. 1 rank in the race for the 2025 PBR Canada Championship and accompanying $100,000 bonus.

Buttar got off to a quick in Round 1, delivering the second-best score when he topped Pay Day (Skori Bucking Bulls) for 86 points.

With the second selection in the championship round bull draft, Buttar architected a showdown with More or Less (Thompson Rodeo Livestock), a decision which proved dividends. Remaining in perfect time with the powerful animal athlete, Buttar reached the whistle for an event-best 87 points, proving enough to clinch the win.

The golden finish garnered Buttar a crucial 126 national points. He rose from unranked to then No. 1 in the Canadian standings, leading No. 2 Jordan Hansen (Amisk, Alberta) by 43 points.

Other past PBR Canada Cup Series event winners in Red Deer are: Jake Garnder (2024 and 2022 – Fort St. John, British Columbia); and Jared Parsonage (2023 – Maple Creek, Saskatchewan).

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, January 31, 2026.

Tickets for the event go on sale Friday, November 21 at 10:00 a.m. MST, and start at $25, plus fees, and can be purchased at the Tickets Alberta Box Office located in the Marchant Crane Centrium foyer, online at TicketsAlberta.ca, or charge by phone at (866) 340-4450.

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