No, not Kimbo Slice. C.C. Sabathia is also wrong (although he does eat the entire peanut). Ben Maller has an entertaining story today over at Yahoo on Bushwacker, a bull which is being hailed in rodeo circles as the most difficult thing to ride since the Ford Pinto. Eight riders have attempted to stay aboard Bushwacker for the required eight seconds needed in a qualifying ride, and no one has done it — the beast is 8-0. They’re calling him the Michael Jordan of rodeo.
I had no idea they give prize money to bulls, but they do —
Bushwacker earned $335,000 from American Bucking Bull Inc., in 2010. With that kind of income, you might actually see a bull in a
china shop.
The longest anyone has stayed atop the caramel-colored terror since he became a full-grown adult is 6.6 seconds. That
achievement belongs to Dustin Elliott, 30, a top rider from Nebraska, who didn’t suffer any injuries that day.
“Just a broken heart,” said Elliott, who earns an annual six-figure salary for his rodeo skills.
Bushwacker’s sperm alone is worth $2,000 per sample. His owner, Julio Moreno of Oakdale, Calif., has turned down offers of $500,000 to sell the bucking bull. Moreno, who raised the animal for a son who died of leukemia, says he wouldn’t even sell Bushwacker for $1 million.
“I wouldn’t sell him for over a $1 million,” said Moreno. “I don’t have nothing else.”
After the Professional Bull Riders championships in October, Moreno said he wants to take Bushwacker to Madison Square Garden in New York City for a rodeo event in January, then parade him in the streets among the skyscrapers.