NFR live CBS Sports Network CBSN NFR For the 22nd consecutive year, the Professional Bull Riders World Finals return to Las Vegas Oct. 21-25 at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center, with a total purse of $2.3 million.The five-day event kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 21, and the first round match ups have been set.

Round 1 will feature the top bulls of the American Bucking Bull, Inc., (ABBI), serving as the first round of the ABBI Classic Finals, a competition for 3- and 4-year-old bucking bulls. Bruiser (D&H Cattle Co.) currently leads the ABBI Classic standings with more than $60,000 in earnings. He is also one of seven bulls in contention for the 2015 PBR World Champion Bull title that will be awarded Sunday, Oct. 25.

The No. 1 bull rider in the world, 2013 PBR World Champion J.B. Mauney (Mooresville, North Carolina), will take on relative newcomer Wicked Stick (Diamond S Bucking Bulls). The bovine has only bucked in two PBR Built Ford Tough Series (BFTS) events in his career, Thackerville and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gage Gay (Staley, North Carolina) was unable to last 8 seconds on the bull in Tulsa while 2013 PBR Rookie of the Year Joao Ricardo Vieira (Itatinga, Brazil) earned an 86.5-point ride in Thackerville. NFR live CBS Sports Network

Vieira, the No. 2 rider in the PBR world standings will square off with Pile Driver (Dakota Rodeo/Berger-Struve). Pile Driver is unridden in seven outs on the BFTS. Cooper Davis (Jasper, Texas) has lasted the longest of all riders on the chocolate bovine when he went 7.65 seconds during the Tulsa event in August.

The PBR’s leading rookie, Kaique Pacheco (Itatiba, Brazil), sits No. 3 in the world and will take on D&H Cattle Co.’s Chocolate Shake. This bull has only made one BFTS appearance this season, bucking off Nathan Schaper (Grassy Butte, North Dakota) in 3.19 seconds in Colorado Springs.For Bownds, he said it took many times getting bucked off before he began to prevail at the sport. He was still attending high school at Lubbock-Cooper when this pastime turned into a profession.

At 18 years old, Bownds had to make several sacrifices to chase this dream.“The announcer said, ‘What did you give up to be here tonight?’” Woody said, “and he said, ‘This kid gave up his senior prom’.”Vieira, the No. 2 rider in the PBR world standings will square off with Pile Driver (Dakota Rodeo/Berger-Struve). Pile Driver is unridden in seven outs on the BFTS. Cooper Davis (Jasper, Texas) has lasted the longest of all riders on the chocolate bovine when he went 7.65 seconds during the Tulsa event in August.

CBS Network National Finals Rodeo Live Stream Online Las Vegas 2015  . It is this work ethic that helped Bownds reach the NFR his rookie year in 2011.“I was 19 and won the PRCA Rookie of the Year and made the NFR, and won two go-arounds that year,” Bownds said. “I had no clue what I was getting myself into, going out there. Ten rounds, ten bulls. I mean, it's a fight to the end.”

These “battles” that can end up with more than Bownds’ childhood dreams crushed.“He was stepped on by a bull, I think broke four ribs, cracked six vertebrates and collapsed a lung and spent two nights in the hospital,” Woody said, “Janci (his mother) went in there and touched him on the face and said, ‘Are we done?’ and he said, ‘Mom, don't ever ask me that again’.”

Vieira, the No. 2 rider in the PBR world standings will square off with Pile Driver (Dakota Rodeo/Berger-Struve). Pile Driver is unridden in seven outs on the BFTS. Cooper Davis (Jasper, Texas) has lasted the longest of all riders on the chocolate bovine when he went 7.65 seconds during the Tulsa event in August.Bownds even had to sit out five months in 2012 to receive an intensive surgery in Philadelphia.“I tore my groin off my pelvic bone in three spots in my lower leg,” Bownds said.

This means his mother, Janci Wilson, has a difficult time watching him ride because she oftentimes thinks about these “wrecks.”“Every time I’m weak at the knees, and it's like he’s doing it for the first time every time,” Janci said, “because you don't know what the outcome is going to be.”

For Janci, it is the pride after Bownds’ ride that distracts her from the tragedies that can happen during those eight seconds.“[Fans] just let you know how much that Chandler has meant to them and their family, or their daughter or their son,” she said. “You know, you don't know what the message is going to be, but it’s always inspirational and I pull my strength from those aspects of it.”to know more information