Brady Fielder dominated the competition at Ram Trucks PBR Indianapolis presented by Cooper Tires for his second Professional Bull Riders (PBR) premier Unleash The Beast (UTB) victory of the season in Gainbridge Fieldhouse Sunday afternoon.
Fielder, a native of Clemont, Queensland, was the lone rider to score on all three of his bulls over the course of the two-day event, punctuated with a rank 91.80-point ride aboard Freedom Fighter in the Championship Round for an aggregate score of 268.75 on the weekend. After conquering Kippers Rippers in the second round for 87.65 points to top the leaderboard, Fielder used the first pick of the draft to choose his winning partner Freedom Fighter.
With the championship round and event win, Fielder tacked on 144 points in the UTB World Championship race to rocket from ninth to fourth in the world standings. Fielder, who also went 3-for-3 to win in Boston in early January, is chasing his first title after finishing third in the 2025 season.
John Crimber (Decatur, Texas), who went 1-for-2 on the weekend with an 86.40-point ride in Round 2 to finish 13th and pick up 15 points, remains the leader of the UTB standings by 39 points over No. 2 Sage Steele Kimzey (Strong City, Okla.), who went 1-for-2 with an 84.40-point score in Round 2 to finish 18th and earn 9 points.
After winning the first round, No. 27 Hudson Bolton (Milan, Tenn.) concluded the weekend as runner-up with 179 points. Coming back after missing four events due to a rib injury, Bolton bucked off Felix in the second round but was able to make the full eight in the Championship Round for 89.10 points on CID’s Kid.
Leandro Zampollo (Pirassununga, Brazil) earned his fifth Top 3 finish of the season as he chases his first career premier series victory. Zampollo, No. 3 in the standings, bested Vindicated in the second round of the afternoon for 86.25 points to earn the tenth pick of the draft where he chose I’m a Hostage. The duo combined for 88.65 points to launch Zampollo up seven positions to the bronze finish.
Marco Rizzo (Quitman, Ga.) earned his first top-five placing since early January in Boston to crack back into the Top 10 on the UTB tour. Rizzo rode Wavy Bomb for 85.55 points in the second round for the second pick in the draft where he chose Cherry Shot and bucked off in 2.59 seconds.
Luciano De Castro (Guzolandia, Brazil) rode Mr. Demon in the second round for 87.80 points, the second-best score of the round, to qualify for the Championship Round Sunday afternoon. Once there, he climbed on Lari’s Speck where he tacked on a score of 84.40 to move to fifth on the weekend and No. 24 in the world.
Cherry Shot’s performance in bucking off Rizzo for 45.90 points was the high bull score of the weekend, earning the YETI “Built for the Wild” Bull of the Event.
Magic Potion extended his all-time buck off streak to 58 outs in dominating Dalton Kasel in the Championship round with a 3.09-second buck off.
PBR’s Unleash The Beast bucks into Albuquerque, New Mexico for PBR Albuquerque Ty Murray Invitational in The Pit March 27-29 in the fifteenth stop of the tour.
