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Professional bull riders compete during the PBR Unleash the Beast bull riding event at Barclays Center in New York, USA.

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After an invocation was intoned and the national anthem belted, the lights dimmed and a flashy “PBR 101” video played on the gargantuan screen overhead. It is not just city folk who needed this primer. Teams are new in bull-riding. Athletes have to cling to a bucking bull for eight long, chaotic seconds, as they do during rodeos. But instead of riding by themselves, five cowboys compete together in a “head-to-head battle” against another squad. Viewers cheer their chosen teams through a two-hour-long match that has all the tension and drama of a good Western.

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