professional bull riding @ msg

These images are from The Professional Bull Riders 5th annual Madison Square Garden Invitational which was held on January 7th-9th, 2011. The weekend-long event which was won by Valdiron de Oliveira (seen at left), featured over 40 of the top bullriders in the world including: Ben Jones, Renato Nunes, JB Mauney and Ryan Dirteater.

I covered the event on assignment for Gothamist. See more images from the 7th and 9th on their site.