Championship Sunday in the first of two Cinch Playoff legs featured a dominating performance by Ky Hamilton to show that he is still a World Title threat, a duel between Jesse Brown and Will Lummus, who are now the Top 2 steer wrestlers in the World Standings; promising results for a pair of bareback riders on the bubble; and some disappointing news about Superman in Boots.

With some of the winners taking home more than $20,000, not to mention Governor’s Cup tickets being punched, what happened Sunday in Puyallup impacted both the near and long term of the 2025 ProRodeo season.

Stetson Wright likely to miss remainder of regular season with broken ribs. Usually we’re here to highlight the biggest highs of the week, but the biggest news of the weekend was undoubtedly Stetson Wright’s nasty injury. The No. 1 man in the PRCA Bull Riding and All-Around Standings was stepped on during the bronc riding Saturday in Puyallup and broke five ribs, punctured a lung, and injured his pelvis. Wright hopes to be back by the Governor’s Cup in three weeks, but doctors say it will be closer to six before we see him again. He should be 100 percent well before the NFR.

Bull rider Ky Hamilton wins $37,970 for Puyallup victory. Stetson’s good buddy Ky Hamilton was the bull riding champion in dominant fashion in the first leg of the Cinch Playoffs. Hamilton won the Average in Playoff 2 with 166 points on two and went on to go 3-for-4 for the rodeo, saving his best ride, 88.5 on Brookman Rodeo’s Laughing Gas, for the Short Round. Hamilton is No. 4 in the World.

Tie-down roper Riley Webb gets statement win in Puyallup. The No. 1 ranked tie-down roper in the World extended his lead and closed in on $300,000 with a victory at the weekend’s biggest rodeo. He was 8.7 or faster on all four of his runs and bookended his time in Washington with 7.9-second runs. He won $24,808 to bring his total $287,796, which unofficially breaks the PRCA regular season earnings record set by Shad Mayfield last season.

Bareback rider Sam Petersen makes best ride of best regular season of his career. Petersen had a big week everywhere but Puyallup. He was 91 on Prairie Rose of Sankey Pro Rodeo to win the Lewiston Roundup which paid him $5,600 and also made rides of 88 and 89 points at the RAM Jim Baier Shootout in Iowa.

Clint Summers/Jade Corkill both move into Top 5 in PRCA Team Roping World Standings. A new partnership in the 2025 season, this team has just flat-out gotten better and better as the summer has gone one. Summers is No. 4 on the head side while Corkill is the third-ranked heeler after they won $19,540 for their victory in Puyallup. They were 4.3 in the Short Round which was their best run of the rodeo.

Jesse Brown moves to No. 2 in the PRCA Steer Wrestling World Standings. Brown has been ranked No. 2 or 3 the entire summer and is back in the second spot, jumping Tucker Allen after turning in four straight times of 4.9 or faster to win Puyallup, including a 3.6 in the Finals.

Wacey Schalla has big weekend in both of bareback riding and bull riding. In bareback riding, Schalla delivered big rides, posting a 90 in Puyallup’s Short Round to finish second and an 88 in Lewiston for third. The strong week bumped him from No. 16 to No. 14 in the standings. On the bull riding side, he went 3-for-4 in Puyallup to make the Finals and added a fourth-place finish in Lewiston. Now, he’s climbed to within $20,000 of Stetson Wright in the PRCA Bull Riding World Standings.

The saddle bronc Short Round in Puyallup featured only Canadians. Dawson Hay got the better of his brother Logan, his cousin Ben Andersen, and possibly the best Canadian bronc rider to ever live, Zeke Thurston. Dawson, who is No. 3 in the World Standings, was 89.5 points on Calgary Stampede’s Freedom Xpress.

Bareback rider Jacek Frost gets crucial win and spot in Governor’s Cup. Frost checked two major boxes over the weekend: climbing the PRCA World Standings and punching his ticket to the Governor’s Cup. He jumped from No. 23 to No. 20 in the World, highlighted by a 91-point ride in the Finals that topped Rocker Steiner and Wacey Schalla. That performance secured his Governor’s Cup berth, a feat more than half of the bareback bubble riders couldn’t match. Frost now sits just $13,500 outside the Top 15.