There are good rides. There are great rides.
And then there are the rides that make everybody in the building stop what they are doing and stare at the scoreboard — the kind of moment that, in the old days, made you hold onto your ticket stub because it did not just mark history, it preserved your memory of watching it unfold.
Since PBR Teams launched in 2022, the league has created exactly the kind of environment where those moments thrive. Put the best bull riders in the world against the rankest bulls available, add four teammates depending on the result and suddenly 90 points can feel like only the beginning.
The numbers have climbed. Records have fallen. Some of the same bulls have appeared over and over again.
And along the way, the Teams era has produced performances that will remain benchmarks long after the final scores disappear from the video board.
From 2026 back to the league’s inaugural season, these are the rides that have stood above the rest — with plenty of the 2026 season still left to add more names to the list.
2026
Macaulie Leather and King Tut — 93.35 points
Sometimes the best evidence of a bull’s greatness comes when somebody actually rides him.
Macaulie Leather proved it in Anaheim.
With the Missouri Thunder battling the Carolina Cowboys at Honda Center, Leather climbed aboard King Tut and matched him jump for jump for the full 8 seconds.
The result was enormous.
93.35 points.
It was the highest-scoring ride of the 2026 PBR Teams season to that point, Leather’s fourth 90-point ride of the season and the highest-marked ride of his premier-level career.
King Tut earned a 45.10-point bull score in the matchup, giving Leather exactly the kind of opportunity required to put a truly elite number on the board.
Two days later, King Tut showed everyone the other side of the equation.
Matched against Sandro Batista, the bull ended the ride before the whistle and earned a career-high 46.70-point bull score, the highest bull score of the 2026 PBR Teams season at the time.
That two-out stretch told the story better than a buckoff percentage ever could.
Great bulls create opportunity.
A rider cannot manufacture 93 points by himself. He needs a bull capable of supplying the other half.
Leather got that opportunity.
And he took full advantage of it.
Austin Richardson and Stacked Deck — 92.40 points
Austin Richardson wasted little time putting his name near the top of the leaderboard in 2026.
In one of his first outs with the Florida Freedom after being traded from the Nashville Stampede during the offseason, Richardson led off against the Arizona Ridge Riders and immediately gave his new team something to celebrate.
92.40 points.
Stacked Deck was marked 44.65 points, while Richardson turned the matchup into one of the season’s defining rides — a score that still holds the No. 2 spot on the Busch Light Smoothest Ride leaderboard.
From behind the chutes, teammate John Crimber screamed for Richardson through the full 8 seconds, and once the whistle sounded, Richardson punctuated the moment with his signature yeet celebration.
It was part of a Florida performance powered by a pair of 90-point efforts and another reminder of what makes the Teams format different.
There is no easing into a game when your name is called first.
One nod can immediately put almost 93 points on the board and force the opposing team to spend the rest of the game trying to answer.
Richardson did exactly that.
And with plenty of the 2026 season still left to unfold, Richardson’s early-season statement has already proven stickier than a rosined bull rope.
2025
Brady Fielder and Man Hater — 93.75 points
There could hardly have been a more fitting way for Man Hater to return to competition following the passing of longtime stock contractor Gene Owen.
Owen had always believed Man Hater had another world championship in him and, just as importantly, that the bull loved his job. So after Owen’s passing in 2025, Man Hater kept doing exactly that job.
By then, he had already left no shortage of big moments in the history books here on earth. Before long, he would head for the bucking chutes in the sky himself, leaving behind a standard that will be talked about forever.
But in Austin, he still had more history to make.
Waiting for him was Brady Fielder.
The Australian had faced Man Hater five times before and knew exactly what was coming. The bull held the advantage in their previous meetings, including a buckoff at the 2025 PBR World Finals, but Fielder had also proven he could solve him.
In Austin, he did it again.
Fielder matched Man Hater for 8 seconds and was rewarded with 93.75 points, the highest-scoring ride of the 2025 PBR Teams season.
Man Hater was marked 45.50 points.
Then, in typical Fielder fashion, the Australian treated the entire thing like another assignment completed.
“Part of taking care of my job,” Fielder said.
That understated response fit the Texas Rattlers perfectly.
Do your job.
But there was nothing ordinary about the bull underneath him.
Man Hater had already won world titles, produced historic bull scores and played a starring role in some of the biggest rides in PBR history.
Fielder simply gave him one more.
Josh Frost and Man Hater — 92.50 points
Different rider.
Different city.
Same bull.
At Outlaw Days in Kansas City, Josh Frost climbed aboard Man Hater with the Oklahoma Wildcatters facing the Florida Freedom.
Eight seconds later, Frost owned the second-highest ride of the 2025 PBR Teams season.
92.50 points.
Man Hater was marked 45.25 points, once again providing the kind of trip capable of producing a massive score if the cowboy could stay attached.
Frost did.
Then came the dismount.
Frost’s shoulder popped out of socket on the way to the arena fence, an issue he had already been battling, and he remained facedown briefly in the dirt.
The reaction changed almost immediately.
Then-Oklahoma Wildcatters Head Coach J.B. Mauney went from celebration to momentarily looking ready to jump the steel.
It was one of those moments that showed how quickly bull riding can change.
Eight seconds can produce one of the best rides of an entire season.
The next second can remind everybody what it took to get there.
And there is something fitting about Man Hater occupying both of the top spots from 2025.
The great bull is gone, but performances like these are why his name remains part of the conversation.
Fielder rode him for 93.75.
Frost rode him for 92.50.
The riders changed.
Man Hater remained the common denominator.
2024
Cassio Dias and Man Hater — 98.25 points
If one ride has come to define just how high the ceiling can be in PBR Teams, this is it.
At Rattler Days inside Dickies Arena, Cassio Dias climbed aboard Man Hater and produced a number that almost did not look real.
98.25 points.
Two reigning World Champions had combined for the highest-scoring ride in PBR Teams history and the second-highest score in PBR history.
Dias earned 49 rider points.
Man Hater earned 49.25 bull points.
Nearly perfect on both sides.
The matchup was hardly unfamiliar.
Dias and Man Hater had already combined for 94.75 points in Los Angeles during the 2024 Unleash The Beast season before meeting again for 93.25 points in Albuquerque.
But Fort Worth was different.
Just three weeks earlier, Man Hater had bucked off Sage Steele Kimzey in 2.41 seconds and earned a record-setting 49.5-point bull score.
Then he came back and nearly matched it.
This time, Dias refused to leave.
“No offense to anybody – that’s the best ride I’ve ever seen in my life,” Kansas City Outlaws Head Coach J.W. Hart said afterward.
Dias celebrated atop the shark cage with his signature Lane Frost wave.
The scoreboard read 98.25.
And the PBR Teams record book had a new standard.
Man Hater could buck off the best riders in the world and earn historic bull scores doing it.
But when somebody was good enough to ride him, the ceiling became almost nonexistent.
Adriano Salgado and Flyin’ Wired — 93 points
Before Dias and Man Hater nearly broke the scoreboard in Fort Worth, Adriano Salgado had already supplied one of the season’s biggest statements.
In Oklahoma City, with the Carolina Cowboys facing the Florida Freedom, Salgado drew Flyin’ Wired.
Salgado matched the bull for 8 seconds and earned 93 points, the second-highest score of the 2024 PBR Teams season.
Flyin’ Wired was marked 45.25 points.
And the bull’s name appearing here was nothing new.
One year earlier, Flyin’ Wired had been underneath the highest-scoring ride of the entire 2023 Teams season.
Now Salgado had pushed the number even higher.
That is one of the recurring themes in the PBR Teams record book.
The same elite bulls keep creating opportunities.
Sometimes they win.
Sometimes the riders do.
And when everything comes together exactly right, both athletes end up attached to a number people remember.
2023
Wingson Henrique da Silva and Flyin’ Wired — 92.50 points
Sometimes the biggest ride comes when the road — and the season — is about to end.
For Wingson Henrique da Silva, that moment arrived in Las Vegas.
The Kansas City Outlaws had been relegated to the Last Chance Game during the 2023 PBR Teams Championship.
Their season was on the line.
Kansas City needed an elite strike.
Silva delivered one.
Paired with Flyin’ Wired, Silva matched the bull jump for jump and reached the whistle for 92.50 points.
Flyin’ Wired was marked 45.25 points.
Together, they produced the highest-scoring ride of the entire 2023 PBR Teams season.
And Silva saved it for his final out of the year.
He had entered the season with only one career 90-point ride. By the time he left Las Vegas, he had produced the best score of his career and the biggest number anyone had posted in Year 2 of PBR Teams.
The circumstances made it even better.
The postseason.
A Last Chance Game.
A season hanging in the balance.
And 92.50 points on the board.
Chase Dougherty and Ivy League — 91.75 points
Sometimes the third time really is the charm.
Before Chase Dougherty met Ivy League in Ridgedale, the matchup had been decidedly one-sided.
Ivy League bucked him off in 3.31 seconds the first time they met.
The second attempt lasted longer.
6.77 seconds.
Still not enough.
Then came meeting No. 3.
This time, Dougherty stayed with him.
The Arizona Ridge Riders cowboy matched Ivy League throughout the trip, remaining in control through a drastic change of direction before finally hearing the whistle.
91.75 points.
Ivy League earned a 44.50-point bull score.
After two failed attempts, Dougherty had finally solved him.
Even then, Ivy League was not quite finished.
Dougherty became tied up during the dismount before eventually getting free without further repercussions.
Eight seconds had taken three tries.
Getting safely back to the dirt required a little extra work.
But the score was worth it.
Dougherty's 91.75 tied Alex Cerqueira and the late Ricky Vaughn for the second-highest score of the 2023 season.
2022
Chase Outlaw and Woopaa — 94.50 points
PBR Teams did not need long to prove the jerseys were not going to bring the scores down.
During the inaugural season, Chase Outlaw climbed aboard Woopaa in the Bonus Round in Oklahoma City and gave the new format one of its first truly enormous numbers.
94.50 points.
Woopaa was marked 46 points in the matchup.
Outlaw took care of the rest.
The score became the highest-marked ride of the inaugural PBR Teams season and immediately established just how high the ceiling could be in 5-on-5 competition.
The bull underneath him hardly needed an introduction.
Woopaa had already established himself as one of the defining bovine athletes of his generation and had been the other half of Jose Vitor Leme’s historic 98.75-point ride.
This time it was Outlaw’s turn.
And in a league still introducing itself to the world, 94.50 was quite the opening statement.
The format was different.
The jerseys were new.
The concept of 5-on-5 bull riding was still finding its footing.
The rankness was exactly the same.
Daniel Keeping and Flapjack — 93.50 points
If Outlaw and Woopaa established the inaugural ceiling, Daniel Keeping made sure the first season ended with another massive ride.
And he saved it for Las Vegas.
During the PBR Teams Championship, Keeping climbed aboard Flapjack in a three-team Last Chance Game featuring the Austin Gamblers, Texas Rattlers and Carolina Cowboys.
The stakes could hardly have been higher.
Flapjack was marked 45.75 points, giving Keeping the kind of bull capable of putting a huge number on the board if he could stay attached.
Keeping did.
93.50 points.
It was the second-highest score of the inaugural PBR Teams season, only one point behind Outlaw and Woopaa.
And it came with survival at stake.
That combination has become one of the signatures of PBR Teams.
It is one thing to nod your head knowing an individual score is riding on the next 8 seconds.
It is another when you are also riding for the teammates behind the chutes, the ones on the bench, the ones sidelined by injury and the ones who simply did not draw a bull that fit their style that night.
Keeping delivered.
And by the time the first PBR Teams season ended, the blueprint was already there.
One season down.
Two rides north of 93 points.
And a 94.50-point mark for everybody else to chase.
Five seasons later, that chase has produced some remarkable company.
Outlaw and Woopaa established the early standard.
Keeping immediately showed it was no fluke.
Silva and Flyin’ Wired led Year 2.
Dias and Man Hater launched the record into another universe.
Fielder and Frost put Man Hater right back at the center of the conversation in 2025.
And now Leather and King Tut have added their names to the list.
But the formula never changes.
A rider cannot manufacture a massive score by himself.
He needs a bull capable of creating the opportunity.
The harder that bull makes the job, the greater the reward if the cowboy can somehow finish it.
That is why the greatest bulls can own both sides of the record book.
They can produce historic buckoffs one night and historic rides the next.
Somewhere, another rider will nod his head on another great bull and take a shot at the numbers that came before him.
These numbers are etched into the record book forever. Now, we wait to see what greatness comes next.
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