The Best Bull Rider of All Time: J.B. Mauney

[Music] in the history of bull riding I would think that Jamie's got a rank right up at the top nobody's dealt that he is the best I've never seen a day out of JB where he wasn't expecting to be first things that JB does I don't see out anybody else other people put so much effort and so much time into it whereas it comes so easy to him he's got a level of confidence that is so beyond that there's not a bull in the world that he believes can buck him off there's not a title in the world that he can't win there's not a mountain he can't climb or anything he can't do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there's been a lot of Campbell's that have probably picked that easier one or that one that's good to ride they're probably gonna win some money but gang gonna hear their name whose name do you hear JB he's the best out there you can pick a night almost everything there's one in the world twice and he's won over six million dollars riding bull [Music] they come down natural you know it's a different thing that most people I guess don't have you know in their blood and their body you know it's just a dirty rotten tough cowboy [Music] being a cowboy's of lifestyle that's what I was raised to be I didn't much want to do anything else I rode bucking horses I wrote cab now I'm not ever boy router does it I love them guys don't even know how to ride a horse don't want her out a horse but uh I'd rather be a cowboy than just a bull rider any day you could have take a little slower when I got it down low as you get the other Road being a cowboy and not strictly a bull rider helps you because I mean I'm not just riding the horse I'm working on the legs your balance and things like that this sport definitely started out as a wild and reckless event the balance is kind of shifted to where there's the wild and reckless cowboys that are willing to do whatever it takes and there's you know the athlete side of things where these guys have really evolved into training hard and spending every minute of every day working towards being a world champion bull rider JB is one of the strangest guys as far as what works for him as a bull rider like he don't work out he's funny he only weighs like 140 pounds balance for me is a huge part it doesn't matter how big you are you're not gonna help muscle a damn 1800 pound boy standing on it like that the way it rolls and the way you have to move your weight it's just like a bull it's worked for me I feel like that's the main reason I move my hips so good standing on this thing all the time I did it for an hour a day for a long time you know it's I didn't have anything to do that's where I'd be I'd be inside stand on this ball watch the board on tapes eating the sandwich where you could walk in I talked to you and never get off the ball a lot of them they've told me your frickin nature but they're not here I don't see what I work out all the time and I let them say what they want to everybody asked me you you healthy was no I haven't been healthy since the first time I climbed ownable first when I got on he don't be piss out of me lacerated my liver and broke all my ribs on the right side they told me it should have killed me I thought it first find me hell am i doing this to myself but the next day I want to do it again I was the kid with the try when the other guys had the talent I was the one that we just would not turn loose but I was gonna try to have a bitter end I mean they'd have to stomp me loose before I was gonna let go but you can only beat your body so much before it's just finished I could feel oily the scar tissue really released for you that's my strong man that's when I arrived with my wishes in a little better shape but what I got to deal with you can't put it out of your mind for eight seconds from I will not rob blue if you want to be a world champion bad enough you're gonna have to learn the route with pain you go from January till mate almost every weekend and it's not just one bull in a weekend it's gonna be five of the rankest bulls in the world while coming here and sit down like this to see what I'm doing and what I could do better even when I make a good ride I'll put it in slow motion sit there and watch it and see what I did wrong well up until this point right here I was riding him pretty much like I supposed to when he makes his next corner way through a little twist in there well that messed up all my timing up right there that was just a tic behind him yeah that much as long as you stay ahead of bulls like that they don't have any power but when you get behind like that that's when they take control of you they're your dancing partner they make a move you have to follow right there it's kind of the do-or-die situation you either man up and keep your hand shut and take what's coming or you take the easy route out when I go back this time I know exactly what's coming right there I'm three inches away from the tip of that horn that's when you close your eyes and hope you done knock all your teeth out when dealing with bulls you have to be a bit wild and reckless to be able to compete at this level you're riding a wild animal hell I mean anything and everything could happen if you talk to any bull rider and they tell you they don't have a little bit of fear in them and herv's about him that line bald-faced lying to you cuz I mean you getting on the bull that weighs 1,600 pounds to 22 one time he steps the right way on your bed it's a game i inches she sees me limping around and being bruised up and stuff like that being sore but I don't think she understands that you know it's a life-and-death situation sometimes I want to be around as much as I can I want to be a father to her but it is reckless you're putting your life on the line every time you nod your head [Music] JB and not Senate called my son are not too many or like him around there I mean you can tell he kind of stands out you got a half-scale but you got to have a little bit of luck but you got to really want it and he's always a lot of it is natural but JB puts in a lot of it to earth when he was younger he had a bucking barrel that you couldn't set on there cuz the growths are bad there and he rode it every day for four and five hours a day you work at it until the very last ball you ever get on if I feel like I'm making too many moves and I'll come out here and just slow everything back down you get on it enough and you do the same thing it's repetition yeah muscle memory it comes natural to you everything's going so fast it's got to come second nature you better not be thinking about what you're trying to control because if you do you're already underground they're really good bulls they all gonna kick square over their head the Bulls dropping you're a little bit back and he's gonna jerk you down you can Jack your knees up in them to stop you from going and kind of you know then set your feet back down if he's just spinning real fast and not kicking up in his butt then you kind of you you lift and prod to kind of lock you in there and then you just make the moves when he's spinning the fights not really against another guy's against the bull there are a heck of a lot smarter than people think the difference between me and a lot of them you guys going is I picked the ranked Bulls every time I get a chance I want the one that nobody else wants it prove to myself that there's no bullying hearing tummy elf every time I've seen JB he really hasn't put much thought into the bully as he does best when shooting from the hip if I don't know what the bull does then my body reacts something something I ride him jump for jump if I know what he does in the back of my head I'm setting the game plan for him you set a trap for a bull you get caught in it every time [Music] bull ridings getting to be a bigger sport it's starting to become more mainstream generation I see now is getting farther and farther away from being Cowboys I think that eventually it'll consist of just Ghazi Red Bulls it's going out of style because it's a different age [Music] this year I got that little one for you know I wanted to turn her loose and let her go by herself and let her kind of figure it out all on don't go around the shop okay lady I like to go fast oh I like to go fast [Music] when she's around I'm falling well when I crawl off in that chute that's when you go back to the reckless side they come they changed the world of bull riding and then they go away [Music] [Applause] hope there's never another in Japanese but there's always a young kid that comes up that's gonna take your spot you're not doing this to be the best at it then you might as well stop now I know when I get old that I'm gonna be crippled as hell yeah I'm sacrificing my body is gonna be tore all to pieces but I'm willing to sacrifice that to be the best of what are there [Music]

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Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Tue May 01 2018