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Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Invitational |
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January 9-11, 2009
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Madison Square Garden |
The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) will return to New York for the Built Ford Tough Invitational, the second stop on the 2009 Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler. The event will feature 45 top bull riders including Guilherme Marchi (Brazil) who just took his first PBR World Champion title in 2008 after finishing runner-up for three consecutive years.
Marchi will be joined in the Garden by 2008 NYC champion Valdiron de Oliveira (Brazil) and 2007 NYC champion J.B. Mauney (USA). All three of these riders are heavy contenders for the 2009 World title and looking to the launch the new season with the lead.
About the PBR:
More than 100 million viewers tune in each year to the PBR on FOX, NBC, VERSUS and on a host of foreign networks across the globe. With approximately 500 hours of prime time programming annually PBR ranks among the most prolific sports on air, in addition to attracting over one and one half million live event attendees each year with its multi-tiered event structure which includes the marquee Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler, the Copenhagen Bull Riding Challenger Tour, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Tour, and the Discovery Tour, designed specifically for entry level contestants. The PBR is headquartered in Pueblo, Colo., and has over 1,200 PBR bull riders competing in more than 300 PBR sanctioned competitions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico.
For more information, please visit www.pbrnow.com.
Tickets are available at the Madison Square Garden box office and online at www.thegarden.com.
For information from the 2008 PBR Invitational, please visit our 2008 page.
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