Jerome Davis

Davis was the 1995 PRCA World Champion bull rider and a top PBR athlete. He is now a top bucking bull breeder, and mentor to a new generation of PBR stars. In April of 1992, Jerome Davis was just happy to be in the same Scottsdale, Ariz., motel room as his heroes. He hadn’t been out of high school for a year when he became the youngest of the 20 founding members of the PBR. Sitting toward the back of the room, the 19-year-old from North Carolina was all smiles. In 1993, at the National Finals Rodeo, the PBR founders who qualified for the bull riding event all agreed to don PBR jackets – which were easily identified by the distinct red and black sleeves – for the entire week. In 1994, the PBR began hosting events. “Things like that, back then, got sacrificed that people never did get to see,” he continued, “and it wasn’t just me either. It happened with everybody. In all, I think, it’s been good for everybody. It’s been good for rodeo and certainly good for the PBR.”