Daylon Swearingen recently faced the question of what it feels like to spend 8 seconds in the PBR arena. The year 2022 ended for him with the PBR title for being the world champion and with an injury. That persistent injury faced its dead end in the Madison Square Garden last year. A desperate Daylon Swearingen was eager to stay riding on the rankest bull for 8-long seconds there. The bullriding sensation spent the rest of the UTB season away from mainstream Unleash The Bull season. However, he is one of the principal faces in the sport who went through hell. 

Apart from the 24-year-old former bullriding world champion, several spearheads now came forward, expressing their tough days in the sport. In the new PBR UTB season, those experiences formed a high alert in the sport. 

Daylon Swearingen finds his several PBR opponents standing beside him 

The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) were at the core of dictating the rules and regulations to make the bullriding sport more exciting in the visitor’s book. That was where the 8-second rule came off. However, the chief organization itself believes the dreary part of it. So keeping a high observance of that, in February, PBR’s IG handle displayed its remarkable bullriding defends’ fatal experiences in the arena. The caption conveyed the same notion. “8 seconds can feel like a lifetime when you’re on the back of a PBR bucking bull,” it said. 

In an outpouring of his experience, Daylon Swearingen confessed, “I think it was in Bismarck. He was just out of the line and tough to ride”, smirking.

Soon, Jose Vitor Leme Batista also had something to say. He recalled his 2021 world finals tragedy. “Very very tough for me to forget about the pain,” Batista claimed. But in the same breath, he admitted his achievement on that ranked bull, despite a grueling injury that sent him outside that moment. That eventually indicated the bravado of the bull riders, craving for the full points albeit injury-scare. 

The urge to buck the rankest bulls and face the terror 

PBR legend JB Mauney had spent an enormous chunk of time riding on the rankest bulls in the arena. Eventually, he had reached the pinnacle of success, averting the danger. But in the end, one such injury forced the Wrangler luminary to bid adieu to the sport. The fellow riders keep a tab on that. In that posted snippet, Luciano De Castro remembered riding Speed Demon in the 2019 PBR event. That was his hardest day in the sport. 

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But for Daniel Keeping, things were different. His toughest ride came while riding on a black bull in Cheyenne, the same place where he won his UTB competition last year. So PBR riders like them still count their days without bothering about the inevitable mishaps. What do you think? 

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