The Champions: Ransom
A premier-series debut in December 2025 and a world title five months later. The reigning champion's 47.85 at Billings was the highest mark of the 2026 season.
Ransom is the 2026 World Champion Bull, the reigning champion. His record runs from July 11, 2025, to August 23, 2026: 16 counted outs, the fewest of any champion with ride data, and the count is still growing. PBR's data lists his program as D&H Cattle Co. / Flinn. His first premier-series out came on December 20, 2025, and the title followed in the same season.
The two highest counted bull scores of the 2026 premier season were both his: 47.85 at Billings and 47.15 at the World Finals.
Before the premier series
His first recorded out came in a PBR Teams game in Oklahoma City on Jul 11, 2025: a buckoff of Lucas Divino at 1.96 seconds, marked 45.50. That mark was the highest of the 2025 Teams season, one of 11 outs that reached it. He made four Teams outs that summer and fall, and riders covered two of them: João Lucas Campos for 90.75 in August, and Alan de Souza for 89.75 at the Teams Championship in Las Vegas in October. Two days before that, at the Challenger Series Championship in Las Vegas on Oct 22, 2025, he bucked off Willian de Souza, marked 44.75. PBR's 2025 Teams standings list him ninth.
The title season
His premier-series debut came at Chicago on Dec 20, 2025, a buckoff of Brady Fielder marked 44.75. It was the only counted premier mark under 45 he posted all season. Across eight counted premier outs he bucked off six riders, seven of the eight were marked 45 or better, and his championship average in PBR's 2026 standings, 46.225, was the highest in those standings. In between, on the Velocity Tour at Tulsa on Jan 23, 2026, he bucked off Mason Taylor, marked 45.65.
| Date | Event | Rider | Bull score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2025 | Chicago, IL | Brady Fielder | 44.75 | Buckoff (5.38s) |
| Feb 21, 2026 | Jacksonville, FL | Brady Fielder | 45.45 | Buckoff (2.27s) |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Little Rock, AR | Austin Richardson | 45.50 | Ridden (93.30) |
| Mar 21, 2026 | Indianapolis, IN | Jadon Hayes | 45.60 | Buckoff (3.11s) |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Sioux Falls, SD | Brady Fielder | 46.15 | Buckoff (5.63s) |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Billings, MT | Cassio Dias | 47.85 | Buckoff (4.55s) |
| May 8, 2026 | World Finals · Fort Worth, TX | Cassio Dias | 47.15 | Buckoff (6.70s) |
| May 14, 2026 | World Finals · Fort Worth, TX | Eduardo Aparecido | 46.75 | Ridden (96.10) |
| May 17, 2026 | World Finals · Fort Worth, TX | Brady Fielder | 47.35 | Voided for a reride |
PBR's data flags the May 17 out as the voided first out of a reride, so it isn't counted in this piece. His page lists it among his 17 recorded outs.
Billings and Fort Worth
At Billings on Apr 18, 2026, he bucked off Cassio Dias at 4.55 seconds and was marked 47.85, the highest bull score of the 2026 premier season. Only 26 of the 90,980 scored outs in the record are higher, and no other out in the record carries exactly that mark.
At the World Finals in Fort Worth, he met Cassio Dias again on May 8 and bucked him off at 6.70 seconds, marked 47.15. On May 14, Eduardo Aparecido covered him for 96.10, on a bull score of 46.75. It is the highest ride score Aparecido has in the record, and only seven ride scores in the record are higher.
The riders who covered him
Five riders have made the whistle on Ransom in his 16 counted outs. His longest run of buckoffs in a row is four.
| Date | Rider | Ride score | Bull score | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2025 | João Lucas Campos | 90.75 | 44.25 | PBR Teams · Austin, TX |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Alan de Souza | 89.75 | 43.75 | Teams Championship · Las Vegas, NV |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Austin Richardson | 93.30 | 45.50 | Unleash The Beast · Little Rock, AR |
| May 14, 2026 | Eduardo Aparecido | 96.10 | 46.75 | World Finals · Fort Worth, TX |
| Aug 23, 2026 | Keyshawn Whitehorse | 81.35 | 39.50 | PBR Teams · Austin, TX |
The program
D&H appears in PBR's program listing for five World Champion Bull titles: Long John in 2015 (D&H Cattle Company), SweetPro's Bruiser in 2016, 2017 and 2018 (D&H Cattle Co. / Buck Cattle Co.), and Ransom in 2026 (D&H Cattle Co. / Flinn). The listing names different partners across those titles.
After the title
He returned to PBR Teams in August 2026. On Aug 2 in Oklahoma City he bucked off Heitor Santos Ferreira at 6.88 seconds, marked 45.55, one of the best trips of the 2026 Teams season so far. His most recent recorded out came on Aug 23, 2026, in Austin, where Keyshawn Whitehorse covered him for 81.35.
Every one of his outs, with each rider and each score, stays on Ransom's page, and it updates as his record grows.
Method: all figures are from PBR Data API ride records as of the September 21, 2026 sync. Counted outs leave out the voided first out of a reride (one, on May 17, 2026), so his page shows 17 outs where this piece counts 16. "Premier" means PBR's Unleash The Beast series; the championship average is from PBR's 2026 season standings. All-time ranks count every scored out in the record. From 2026, bull and ride scores are no longer limited to quarter points. Program names are as PBR's data lists them for each title.