Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo - FWSSR Championship Round

Name: Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo - FWSSR Championship Round
Start: 2025-02-08T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-08T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Dickies Arena

Schedule

Sat Feb 08 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Dickies Arena | Fort Worth, TX

By Susan Kanode FORT WORTH, Texas – The 124th Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (FWSSR) closed Saturday, Feb. 8, with a capacity crowd watching history-making performances in the new Dickies Arena. The championship finals of the first FWSSR ProRodeo Tournament featured eight rodeo athletes in eight contest events competing for the lion’s share of a 1.2-millon dollar purse. Tilden Hooper, a native of Carthage, Texas, who now lives less than a 15-minute drive from Dickies Arena, was the big winner in bareback riding. As a youngster he watched rodeo on television, became a fan and decided to become a cowboy. He’s now one of the best in the sport and he notched the highest score in the 102-year history of indoor rodeo at the FWSSR – 91.5 points on Calgary Stampede’s horse called Agent Lynx. “There’s so much history at this rodeo,” Hooper said. “It’s great to be the first bareback riding champion in this arena.” Hooper broke a record first set in 1973 by Gary Tucker and matched in 2004 by Jason J
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