JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) will return to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday for its third year in a row.<\/p>\n
PBR promises to bring two \u201cadrenaline-charged\u201d nights as the world\u2019s top bull riders will go head-to-head against the \u201ctoughest animal athletes on the planet,\u201d in a series of battles.<\/p>\n
News4JAX went to the VyStar arena on Friday morning ahead of PBR\u2019s first show.<\/p>\n
Wyatt Rogers, a bull rider from Oklahoma, said he grew up going to rodeos with his family and fell in love with bullriding from a very young age.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is absolutely the dream. Ever since I was a little kid, kids were 4 or 5 years old saying they wanted to grow up and be a police officer, a firefighter. Mine was always a professional bull rider,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n
Press play above to watch the full interview with Rogers<\/p>\n
According to the website,<\/a> the Progressive PBR Jacksonville will be the 10th event of the 2025-26 Unleash The Beast season, which showcases the top athletes in the sport, both human and bovine.<\/p>\n Tickets can be purchased at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena Box Office, online at Ticketmaster.com<\/a>, PBR.com\/tickets<\/a>, and jaxevents.com.<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) will return to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104,684,116,118,117,40214,19955],"class_list":["post-163313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pbr","tag-vystar-veterans-memorial-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}