rides and bull prepare for bucking week

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- They are the best of the best, the bravest when it comes to riding bulls.

It’s Professional Bull Riders week in Las Vegas at the South Point Arena, where the Challenger Series Championship is taking place. It's the first stop before this weekend’s huge PBR Team Championship Finals at T-Mobile Arena.

LJ Jenkins, an 11-time PBR World Finals qualifier and one of only a few men to win the aggregate at both the PBR and NFR.

"I've broke legs, ribs, arms," he said. "We don't know when we're going to get hurt, it's just how bad, cause it's going to happen."

He retired after breaking his back and became stock contractor, raising and training the bulls that compete in the PBR. He said the bulls are considered athletes.

”They're just l

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