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LAS VEGAS – Valdiron de Oliveira sat in front of his locker on Saturday night inside T-Mobile Arena as tears began to well up in his dark eyes.

“I love bull riding, but I love my family more,” Oliveira said before breaking down moments after 2008 World Champion Guilherme Marchi gave him a hug.

After seriously considering retirement for the past two seasons, Oliveira announced on Saturday night that Sunday will be he his last day as a professional bull rider and that he will be retiring following the conclusion of the 2016 Built Ford Tough World Finals.

“It is very hard because I need to explain to the fans,” Oliveira said. “They have followed me every year. I did this for the sport for 10 years. I think I did a good job. 402 bulls I stay on and I have two more. I feel like I complete my work. I feel I completed my job and it is time to retire.”

There was a commercial break during Round 4 of the 2016 Built Ford Tough World Finals on CBS Sports Network when the 37-year-old hung his head over the bucking chutes and looked down at Flight Plan.

Oliveira thought about his wife, Andrea, his son, Paulo, and his daughter, Camilla.           

“I got to the event and before I get on my bull, I think about them in my head,” Oliveira said before dropping his head into his lap and wiping tears from his eyes. “My family say they don’t want me to hurt no more. My son and daughter are sometimes quiet. They will say, ‘Oh, my dad is hurt.’”

Oliveira doesn’t want his family to worry about him anymore, especially after he has spent the last four years riding with chronic back pain.

“One time my wife said a long time ago when I turn 36, 37, 38 years old she want me to retire,” Oliveira said. “I want to retire before I turn 38 because I had surgery on my back a few years ago. I feel strong, but I feel alright. I am sore. I feel like I want to be done. My family too. I will be OK. I put a lot of my money in the bank and invested in some things.”

Oliveira will retire with the si

PUEBLO, Colo. – Valdiron de Oliveira will turn 36 years old during the middle of next season, and he understands that it is getting harder to succeed alongside the next generation of PBR bull riders.

Oliveira laughs when his age is brought up. The 35-year-old knows you can’t fight off Father Time physically, therefore, he is going to try and think like the younger riders on the BFTS in the New Year.

“I want to work on my mind and my body,” he said. “If you think like an old man you can’t ride good. You have to think like a young bull rider and all of these kids. You can’t think, ‘Oh, I am old. I can’t ride.’ You have to try like these young kids.”

It is why Oliviera recently competed at the L.J. Jenkins Invitational this past weekend in Clovis, N.M., and partially why he is tentatively scheduled to ride at the BlueDEF Velocity Tour events in Ontario, California, and Bakersfield, California, later this month.

Along with trying to remain in good riding shape for 2015, he also wants to remain around some of the sports up-and-coming stars that are trying to get a head start on the upcoming season.

“This sport, you need to be young and I am 35,” he continued. “Once you are past 35, it is old for this sport because you need to be flexible and fast mentally. When you get old, your (reaction time) gets slow.”

While 2014 wasn’t Oliveira’s best, the rider who underwent career-threatening back surgery for a herniated disc in 2012 still had a respectable season following the worst streak of his career when he went 4-for-36 over the course of seven months.

Oliveira finished the season 17th in the world standings despite a career-low 35.8 percent riding average. However, he won multiple (Biloxi, Miss., and Anaheim, Calif.) BFTS events for the first time since 2011, and prior to his slump he was third in the world standings.

The right-handed bull rider clearly showed glimpses of the cowboy that was a perennial title contender from 2008-12. He also competed in every 20

This List of Professional Bull Riders Champions provides lists of all the year-end champions of the Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR). There are the World Champion bull riders, World Finals event champions, World Champion bulls, and Rookie of the Year, for example. Also listed are the winners of various awards that are given out at the end of each season. The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) is an international professional bull riding organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. PBR events are televised on CBS and streamed live for free on RidePass on Pluto TV and YouTube. More than 800 bull riders from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and other countries hold PBR memberships. This article lists all the various champions and awards that have been bestowed since the founding of the PBR in 1992.

World Champion Bull Riders

World Finals Event Champions

Rookie of the Year

World Champion Bull

• Bodacious was also the 1994–1995 PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year. When Sweet Pro's Bruiser won the PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year award for 2017, he and Bodacious became the only bulls to win both the PRCA and PBR titles. Each bull won their two titles in the same year. Bodacious won both of his titles in 1995, while Sweet Pro's Bruiser won both of his titles in 2017.

•• There was actually a tie between Sweet Pro's Bruiser, Sweet Pro's Long John and Pearl Harbor, which was resolved by taking the sum of the bull's best eight outs for the season. That is done according to the PBR rules as the first way to resolve a tiebreaker.

Bull of the World Finals

• 1996 – Strawberry Wine
• 1997 – Nitro
• 1998 – Cash
• 1999 – Dillinger (tie)
• 1999 – Promise Land (tie)
• 2000 – Promise Land
• 2001 – Little Yellow Jacket
• 2002 – Ugly
• 2003 – Neon Nights
• 2004 – Crossfire Hurricane
• 2005 – Pandora