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Lane Clyde Frost (October 12, 1963 – July 30, 1989) was an American professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding, and competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). He was the 1987 PRCA World Champion bull rider.
Frost had been a professional bull rider for eight years before the event. He won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) bull riding world championship in 1987. In 1988, Frost was a part of the Challenge of the Champions, which put him up against the previously unrideable bull named Red Rock, who was owned by the Growney Brothers Rodeo Company and was the 1987 PRCA Bucking Bull of ...
Lane Frost happened to become the 1987 World Champion Bull Rider at the same NFR. [ 3 ] "Every bull rider wanted a chance to try Red Rock because he was a great bucking bull and because they knew he wouldn't come after them," Growney said in a 1987 interview with the Las Vegas-Review-Journal, "He won't step on bull riders or hook them once they ...
Lane Frost and Red Rock, with John Growney in the background, photographed by Sue Rosoff. The Challenge of the Champions in 1988 was a series of seven matchups at seven rodeos that paired up then-reigning Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) World Champion Bull Rider Lane Frost with then-reigning PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year Red Rock.
The film stars Luke Perry as American rodeo legend Lane Frost and focuses on his life and career as a bull riding champion. It also features Stephen Baldwin as Tuff Hedeman, and Red Mitchell as Cody Lambert. The film was completed and premiered shortly after what would have been Frost's 30th birthday, in late 1993.
His oldest son, Lane, is named after Lane Frost; his younger sons are Trevor, Ryker, and Ripp. He spends his free time traveling to bull riding and team roping events. He married Tracy Stepp in 1986 and they divorced in 2015. He married Liz Rippetoe in 2021. [13] His older brother is Gary "Roach" Hedeman, who was a rodeo bullfighter in the PRCA ...
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It is named for Lane Frost, the 1987 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) World Champion bull rider who was fatally injured at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on July 30, 1989; and Brent Thurman, a rising star in pro bull riding and co-founder of the PBR who was seriously injured at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas on December ...