Pro Bull Riding’s Velocity Tour Championship Race Bucks Through Worcester, Massachusetts, on Feb. 22-23 –
In less than three weeks’ time, PBR’s (Professional Bull Riders) Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour will return to Worcester, Massachusetts, for the ninth time in history with BeatBox PBR Worcester on Feb. 22-23. The upcoming event at DCU Center will mark the 17th stop of the 30-event regular season for the PBR’s expansion series, while also being the PBR’s lone event in Massachusetts during the 2025 individual season.
Eventgoers will watch riders vie for crucial points in the race to be crowned the 2025 PBR Velocity Tour Champion.
PBR will make its way to the greater Boston area as Western culture continues to take the world by storm! To see the “Yellowstone Effect,” one has to look no further than last weekend!
In addition to holding three sold-out event days in Sacramento, California, the PBR also held events in Laredo, Texas, in addition to Greenville, South Carolina, and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, with the latter two cities also holding sold-out event nights. Collectively, PBR welcomed more than 70,200 fans across North America.
And past events in Worcester have not disappointed as some of PBR’s top talents have previously ridden supreme inside DCU Center.
When PBR’s Velocity Tour was last in Worcester in February 2024, Joao Paulo Fernandes rode a cut above the rest winning the tour stop. As the 2024 campaign rode on, Fernandes capped the season with a 15th-place finish at the Velocity Tour Finals, concluding the season No. 44 in the Velocity Tour Championship race.
This season, two-time PBR World Finals qualifier Marcus Mast will look to follow in Fernandes’ bootsteps, parlaying a win in Worcester into a career year!
Mast, whose love for the sport was sparked by his exposure to livestock growing up on an Amish farm in the Midwest, had spent most of his more than decade-long professional career trying to stay on the elite Unleash The Beast, finally qualifying for the World Finals in 2020.
Joining the Kansas City Outlaws in the PBR Teams bull riding league in 2022, Mast took the advice of Coach J.W. Hart to heart, losing 23 pounds to transform his body and make himself a different bull rider. A decision which proved dividends, Mast led his team in qualified rides (16-for-31 | 51.6%), becoming the Outlaws’ go-to rider. The invigorated lean and focused contender, who was ranked No. 131 at the end of the 2022 Unleash The Beast season, finished third in the MVP race in 2022.
Competing outside the PBR during the offseason in June of 2023, Mast sustained a grizzly injury when his throat was stepped on and torn open.
After a gutsy comeback to compete for the 2023 PBR Teams season, Mast suffered another terrible injury while riding for the Outlaws, breaking his back after a buckoff in Austin, Texas.
Undeterred, he returned healthy for the 2024 PBR Teams season, and the resilient Mast has his eyes set on an individual gold buckle to begin 2025.