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STEER WRESTLER TYLER WAGUESPACK’S ROUND 10 MAGIC RESULTS

Las Vegas, Nevada — For the second year in a row, Tyler Waguespack worked his Round 10 magic to win another PRCA Steer Wresting World Championship.

Waguespack split the Round 10 win with a 3.8-second run, which helped him to reach third in the average and walk away with world championship No. 5.

“The run that I was able to pull off with the steer that I had was awesome, he was a hard running steer,” said Waguespack, who entered Round 10 in fourth place in the world standings. “I wasn’t very happy about him and having drawn him. I talked to my hazer and said if you can get up there and shut him down at all, we can get a good run. We ran him over halfway and the Lord was behind me right there. We turned sideways, but golly it worked out.”

Dalton Massey, who was leading the world standings as the last cowboy out, clocked a 13.3-second run, which included a 10-second penalty for breaking the barrier. He failed to place in the round and was sixth in the average.

That left Waguespack atop the world standings with $303,576, breaking his previous single-season record of 298,676 set in 2016. Massey finished second in the world standings with $283,993.

Waguespack joins exclusive company. Only ProRodeo Hall of Famers Homer Pettigrew (6) and Luke Branquinho (5) have won at least five steer wrestling gold buckles.

In 2022, Waguespack entered Round 10 third in the world standings and left the Thomas & Mack Center in first.

“I come from a great family; they’ve always been there. Helping me throughout and kept pushing me to be better and better,” Waguespack said. “We’d go to practice, and we worked hard, and we got a lot of trust in the Lord. All of this gets us where we need to be.

“I can’t wait for January to come around. Let’s get rolling and let’s go do it again.”