Justin McBride

Justin Travis McBride (born August 7, 1979) is an American former professional bull rider on the PBR's Built Ford Tough Series Tour. He is a two-time PBR World Champion (2005 and 2007), has a record 32 career wins, and was the first professional bull rider to earn more than $5 million in the course of his career.

He is a country music singer and is also one of the color commentators of the Built Ford Tough Series telecasts on CBS Sports Network.

Justin McBride was born in Texas and lived in Belton, Texas until he later moved to Mullen, Nebraska with his parents and older brother. He is of Irish descent on his father's side. His father, who worked on a ranch, rode bulls; his maternal grandfather was killed in a bull-riding event the year before McBride was born. McBride excelled at bareback horse and bull riding, played eight-man football and wrestled. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on a rodeo scholarship; he left after a year to go pro at 19.

McBride currently lives in Whitesboro, Texas with his two children.

McBride recalls his debut in the PBR's rookie league, the Challenger Tour, as 'rough'. When he qualified for the main PBR tour in 1999, he finishied fourth in his first-ever Built Ford Tough Series (then known as the Bud Light Cup) event, which was held in Bakersfield, California. He claimed his first win in his next event, which was in Odessa, Texas. Coupled with two more third-place finishes (one in Albuquerque, New Mexico and one in Reno, Nevada), he qualified for his first PBR World Finals and finished fourteenth in the world in his rookie year of 1999, with $89,007 in earnings.

In 2000, McBride had several top finishes, but no wins. His big success of that year came when he won the Mossy Oak shootout twice - once in Greensboro, North Carolina for $15,000, and again in Houston, Texas for $30,000. He finished ninth in the world in 2000, with $144,764 in earnings, and was named the Mossy Oak Shootout Champion that year.

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