ProRodeo Sports News | 2020 Year-End Edition | Dec.18, 2020

XTREME BULLS TOUR RECAP

Boudreaux Campbell wowed the fans in Nephi, Utah, during the Xtreme Bulls Tour Finale where he emerged as the season champ. Steve Gray photo

Finding Glory Boudreaux Campbell claims first Xtreme Bulls Tour title

BY TRACY RENCK B oudreaux Campbell didn’t finish the 2020 PRCA Xtreme Bulls Tour the way he wanted. In the end, it didn’t matter. While Campbell failed to earn a check at the Xtreme Bulls Tour Finale in Nephi, Utah, Sept. 19, he earned enough money early in the tour to help claim his inaugural Xtreme Bulls Tour title. “It feels good to be the Xtreme Bulls Tour champion,” said Campbell, 22. “I’m glad I’m able to get this off my bucket list. I just wish I could have finished a little better at the (Finale), but it was still nice to get the (year-end) title. It has been a goal of mine since I was a little kid that once I got to the ProRodeo level I wanted to win everything I could, and this was something at the ProRodeo level I needed to win. I’m glad I got it done.” Josh Frost won the Xtreme Bulls Tour Finale in Nephi with 174.5 points on two head. Frost earned $13,113. Frost clinched the victory with an 89-point ride on Diamond G Rodeo’s Three Days, which was the top ride in the 12-man short round. Three Days had been ridden only one other time in 26 outs since 2018. That was an 83.5-point ride by Lucas Mooningham, Nov. 8, 2018, at the RAM Southeastern Circuit Finals Rodeo in Davie, Fla.

“He actually bucked me off in Denver (in January),” Frost said. “I knew the bull pretty good and he’s bucked all the top guys off. He’s notorious for being in the gate to the right and always switches directions, and that’s usually when he bucks everybody off. I was ready for the direction change and after he changed directions, he stayed right there close to the chute and kept bucking. The ride felt good all the way through.” Frost joined Dustin Boquet (Fort Worth, Texas), Campbell (San Antonio), Ty Wallace (Fort Mohave, Ariz.), Clayton Sellars (Spanish Fork, Utah) and Trevor Kastner (Dodge City, Kan.) as the other 2020 Division 1 Xtreme Bulls winners over the season. It was Frost’s second Xtreme Bulls Division 1 win. His other came in San Antonio in 2018. He set the tone for his latest victory with an 85.5-point ride on Flying U Rodeo’s Johnny Sack. Campbell finished atop the Xtreme Bulls Tour standings with $44,286. His biggest Xtreme Bulls win came on Feb. 22 when he won the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Xtreme Bulls, earning $20,333 in San Antonio – $17,833 for his winning, 89-point ride on 4L &Diamond S Rodeo’s Ferdinand. That was his first Division 1 Xtreme Bulls victory. In addition to that San Antonio win, Campbell added a second-place finish at the Spanish Fork Fiesta Days Xtreme Bulls, July 20 and earned $9,297.

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