Florida Freedom return to Amerant Bank Arena for 2026 PBR Teams League Homestand
By Florida Freedom
Posted 11/17/25
The Florida Freedom, 2025 PBR Teams Regular Season Champions, announced on Nov. 17 the return...
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Florida Freedom return to Amerant Bank Arena for 2026 PBR Teams League Homestand
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By Florida Freedom
SUNRISE – The Florida Freedom, 2025 PBR Teams Regular Season Champions, announced on Nov. 17 the return of Florida Freedom Days, presented by Breedlove Wound Care, taking over Amerant Bank Arena Aug. 7-9, 2026, for their annual homestand featuring three days of professional bull riding in South Florida. Freedom Days will mark the third event of the 2026 Teams season.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 10 a.m. ET and can be purchased at SeatGeek.com and PBR.com, at the Amerant Bank Arena Box Office, or by phone at 1-800-732-1727.
The bull-riding action for Freedom Days at Amerant Bank Arena begins at 7:45 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 7; 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 8; and 1:45 p.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 9.
The Freedom are Florida’s only professional bull riding team, competing in a growing sports league that transforms bull riding from an individual sport into a team-formatted competition. The 10-team league features the world’s top bull riders competing on teams in five-on-five games throughout the season, culminating in the PBR Teams Championship in Las Vegas. The Freedom were one of eight founding teams and relocated to South Florida prior to the 2024 season when the league expanded to 10 teams.
Led by Head Coach and 10-time PBR World Finals qualifier and Ring of Honor inductee Paulo Crimber, the Freedom delivered a dominant 2025 campaign, finishing the 2025 PBR Teams regular season ranked No. 1 with a 25-9 record to clinch the regular-season championship.
“This team never quits,” Crimber said. “Finishing No. 1 in the regular season takes a lot of hard work, discipline and belief in each other. Vegas didn’t go our way, but our guys showed the heart and character that define this organization. We’ll learn from it and come back stronger next season, and we can’t wait to do it in front of our fans when Freedom Days returns to Amerant Bank Arena for our 2026 homestand.”
The Freedom’s roster is built around a compelling father–son storyline and two of the league’s brightest stars. Head Coach Paulo Crimber’s 20-year-old son, John Crimber, wrapped the year 25-for-34, capturing his second consecutive PBR Teams Live Legendary MVP title in 2025 and becoming the youngest rider in PBR history to surpass $1 million in career earnings. Thiago Salgado, another breakout performer of the season, finished third in the MVP race. The duo anchors a lineup rich with international firepower, including seasoned Brazilian standouts João Ricardo Vieira, Alex Cerqueira, João Lucas Campos, Elizmar Souza Jeremias and Yan Victor Santos Cunha.
Despite entering the 2025 PBR Teams Championship in Las Vegas as the No. 1 seed, the Freedom’s postseason run ended on a night of dramatic upsets across the bracket, with the top three seeds losing their openers. Florida pushed through a tough quarterfinal draw but ultimately fell to the Missouri Thunder and was later edged out in the Last Chance Game, narrowly missing a semifinal berth. The Freedom still delivered several standout moments in Las Vegas, including Crimber’s electric 92-point ride aboard two-time World Champion Man Hater, one of the top scores of the weekend. He also extended his streak to 10 straight qualified rides, tying the record set by Texas Rattler Daniel Keeping in 2024.
Overall, league event attendance continued to increase in the 2025 season. On television, the bull riding games reached 3.0 million viewers when airing on CBS and CW on the same weekend, totaling 28.2 million fans reached in the 2025 season. Even with a ranker pen of bulls, the on-the-dirt product has never been better, demonstrated in riding percentages at 42.13 percent for the 2025 season, up by almost a full 2 percent and another Championship decided in the final outs of the Championship game.
