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Rodeo announcer Charlie Throckmorton’s career spans more than 30 years. He announced his first rodeo in 1969 while still in high school. Now a Gold Card member of the PRCA, Throckmorton has covered rodeo and bull riding competitions in 44 states across the nation. Some of the major events he has announced include:
In April 2007, Charlie was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. This honor is in recognition of his abilities and contributions to the sport of rodeo. Charlie Throckmorton’s voice has been heard on live NBC television billboards, as well as many state fairs and rodeos throughout the country. Charlie lives in Cleburne, Texas where he enjoys riding his Heritage Softail Harley Davidson as a hobby. He has a son, Taylor, a daughter, Katy, and a granddaughter, Autum.
Rob Gann has worked in nearly every aspect of rodeo, bringing a lifetime of experience, heart, and humor to the arena. Growing up in a rodeo family, he quickly learned the value of a good funny man—not just to entertain, but to keep the show rolling with clean, family-friendly fun.
Rob has been chosen by the bull riders to fight bulls at the International Finals Rodeo multiple times and has served as a bullfighter at the International Finals Youth Rodeo an impressive 13 times. In 2019 he retired from fighting bulls to focus on his clowning career.
In 2023, Rob was selected as the Barrelman and specialty act for the PRCA RAM Prairie Circuit Finals. He has twice been honored as the barrelman at the prestigious International Finals Rodeo in Guthrie, Oklahoma, working IFR 52 and IFR 53. His talent and dedication have earned him recognition as a Top 5 IPRA Clown of the Year finalist in both 2021 and 2022—and again in 2024, he made the Top 5 for IPRA Comedy Act of the Year. He was also named the 2022 APRA Clown of the Year and performed as the clown and barrelman for the American Finals Rodeo.
Earlier in his career, Rob was selected as the funny man for both the Southern and Central Region Finals in 2011, and in 2019, he entertained at the National All Region Finals.
But above all the accolades and arenas, Rob is most proud of being a father to two beautiful daughters, Laynee and Karoline. He makes his home in Lonoke, Arkansas, with his wife Kim and a host of rodeo livestock the girls love and help care for. For Rob, rodeo isn’t just a profession—it’s a way of life rooted in family, faith, and fun.
Ulysses is located in the heart of the wind swept prairies of southwestern Kansas and that's where veteran pro rodeo bullfighter Wacey Munsell calls home. You could say that rodeo bullfighting is in the blood, as it goes back three generations in the Munsell family.
Wacey began honing his skills from the time he started walking; literally. No person or animal was safe from Wacey. He would continually pester them to be his pretend bull. When no one was around, imagination took over. Like a boxer will shadow box, Wacey would shadow fight the great bulls he grew up watching. Bulls like Ol' Red, Purple People Eater and Crooked Nose. He’s a freestyle bullfighting world champion multiple times over, and has won nearly every prestigious event during his time as a competitor.
Now with over 15 years’ experience as a professional in the PRCA, he is one of the top bullfighters in the game. He's seen working many of the major PRCA rodeos across the United States including Denver, Tucson, Greeley, and Dodge City. He has been voted nine times to the Ram Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo, and twice nominated for the PRCA’s bullfighter of the year award.
A dream came true in December of 2018. He was called to work nine performances of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada; filling in for an injured Nate Jestes. The 35 year old says that he really never felt nervous at the premier rodeo in the world. How? He says “I have visualized myself in that arena working every situation imaginable since I can remember. When you visualize yourself there for a lifetime; nerves shouldn’t be an issue.” It was an experience he will never forget and looks forward to the possibility of returning to the sports premier event.
Alex Phelps — a proud native of Ulysses, Kansas — is a third-generation rodeo cowboy and a first-generation bullfighter, carrying on a family tradition. Stepping into the arena as a bullfighter at the green age of 13 years old, Phelps began his bullfighting journey under the guidance of World Champion Wacey Munsell and father, Doug Munsell. In 2011, Phelps sharpened his craft at the last of the legendary Rex Dunn’s bullfighting schools, cementing his foundation with techniques enhanced by one of the sport’s greatest. Since then, he has been invited to elite events including the World Championship Rodeo Bullfights, PRCA Bullfights, and American Bullfighting competitions. A graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Phelps has proudly worked as a PRCA bullfighter since 2014, working rodeos and bull ridings across the Midwest. Since 2021, he has been honored with being selected to work the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, WY.
Bennie Beutler was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo. in July of 2010.
The famed stock contractor from Elk City, Okla., is the third generation of Beutlers to be in the stock contracting business. Beutler and his son Rhett make up the Beutler and Son Rodeo Co., which provides bucking horses and bulls for rodeos across the nation. The company has had animals selected to buck at pro rodeo’s world championship, the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, for nearly every year of its six decades of existence.
Beutler has served as assistant general manager of the National Finals Rodeo since 1982, as NFR chute boss (1979-1980), as a member of the PRCA Rules Committee (1980), stock contractor representative on the NFR committee (1981-1982), as a member of the PRCA board of directors (1989-1991), and as stock contractor director on the PRCA board until 2004. He was PRCA Stock Contractor of the year in 1997.
Bennie goes into the Hall of Fame, following his uncle Lynn Beutler, who was inducted in 1979.
The Beutler name has been part of professional rodeo for decades, from the onset of Beutler Brothers Rodeo Co. to collaboration of Beutler & Son Rodeo Co.
Bennie Beutler and son Rhett have joined together to carry on the family business that began in 1929 when brothers Elra, Jake, and Lynn Beutler began providing stock to rodeos. Jake and Lynn kept the sibling business running in a similar form, but Elra eventually teamed with son Jiggs to form the original Beutler & Son.
Bennie worked with his father, Jiggs and grandfather in the family business. After his elders’ deaths in the 1980’s, Bennie joined forces with E.K. Gaylord II to form Beutler & Gaylord Rodeo Co. That partnership continued for a dozen years, having won the PRCA’s stock contractor of the year title in 1997 and having numerous horses and bulls named roughstock animals of the year.
In 2001, Bennie and Rhett began a partnership that should maintain the family tradition when the reclaimed the firm’s original name, Beutler & Son. From the ranch north of Elk City, Oklahoma, it seems the Beutlers will continue to be part of rodeo’s folklore.