Larry Mahan died and obituary, The rodeo community has lost a legend, has passed away

Ashiru Taoreed May 17, 2023Last Updated: May 17, 2023

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Larry Mahan died and obituary, The rodeo community has lost a legend, has passed away

The rodeo community has lost a legend, Mr. Larry Mahan has passed away. Larry Mahan is an American former rodeo cowboy. He has won six World All-Around Championships and two World Bullriding Championships on the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) Pro Rodeo Tour.

The ProRodeo Hall of Fame placed him in the all-around category in 1979. He was also named a ProRodeo Legend in 2010. Larry Mahan was born November 21, 1943 in Salem, Oregon. He started professional rodeo at the age of 14,. From 1963, he participated in the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA). The organization later changed its name to the Professional Rodeo Association (PRCA) in 1975.

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He won the world all-around title for five consecutive years from 1966 to 1970 and won his sixth title in 1973. His comeback in 1973 and his fight with Phil Lane was the subject of the documentary The Great American Cowboy, which won the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In the RCA, he competed regularly in bronze saddle, bareback and bull riding, often winning. He became the first person to play in three NFR events in one year:.

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He was the high-stakes winner of the 1965 bull ride and won more than $50,000 in 1967, the first person to do so in a single season. He earned over $280,000 for the 1970 season. He had a rough decade in the ’70s, winning the all-around title in 1973, but was held back by injuries for a while. Mahan won six all-around titles, but not the last one in a row. His five-peat streak wasn’t broken until 1979, when Tom Ferguson won his sixth straight title. In 1994, Ty Murray broke the record of six consecutive championships held by Mahan and Ferguson, tying Ferguson’s record of six consecutive championships.

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In 1998, Murray surpassed both with his seventh title and holds the record for seven all-around titles. From then on, they started calling Murray the “King of the Cowboys.” In 2010, Trevor Brazile beat them all to win his eighth all-around title. In 2018, Basile won his 14th all-around title. Mahan was the World Bull Riding Champion in 1965 and 1967.