Lockwood Replaced by Divino in Nampa Draw

By: Justin Felisko
October 18, 2018

PUEBLO, Colo. – Upon second thought, 2017 World Champion Jess Lockwood will not be riding in Nampa, Idaho, this weekend after all as he continues to recover from a torn right groin.

Two days after successfully riding a practice bull in Volborg, Montana, Lockwood has decided to withdraw from this weekend’s DeWalt Guaranteed Tough Invitational, presented by Cooper Tires.

Lockwood consulted with his local physical therapist and the PBR Sports Medicine team, including Dr. Tandy Freeman

“Just feeling sore yesterday morning and day after riding,” Lockwood said via text message. “Didn’t that night I rode, but I did yesterday and then today too.”

Lockwood was originally estimated to be facing an 8 to 12-week recovery when an MRI revealed the tear on Sept. 16.

The 21-year-old has been rehabbing for the last six weeks and originally believed he was good to go.

He had posted on his Instagram account throughout the week, expressing excitement about his return to competition.

Instead, Lockwood will revert back to his original plan that he explained to PBR.com and wait until the 2018 Real Time Pain Relief Velocity Tour Finals or the 2018 PBR World Finals to return.

Lockwood will be replaced by No. 43 Lucas Divino in the draw.

Divino takes on My Creation (0-0, PBR UTB) during Round 1 at the Ford Idaho Center on Saturday night.

Lockwood has missed the last five events because of a torn right groin.

He first sustained the injury in Nashville at the Music City Knockout in August attempting to ride Locke & Loaded. He then aggravated the injury last month in Springfield, Missouri, during his 70-point ride on Powder Puff.

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Fellow World Champions Cooper Davis (rib) and Guilherme Marchi (shoulder) will also miss the regular-season finale in Nampa.

Davis and Marchi are two of an additional five injured riders inside the Top 35 that will not be making the trip to Idaho. Also not competing are No. 15 Matt Triplett (wrist), No. 31 Sean Willingham (hamstring) and No. 33 Lonnie West (shoulder).

Meanwhile, No. 35 Marcos Gloria opted to decline his draw spot for Nampa so that he could go compete at the PBR Canada Monster Energy event in Edmonton on Saturday night.

Gloria will look to earn crucial world points in Canada, while the men on his heels will try to take advantage of all the points available in Nampa.

Divino trails Gloria by 227.5 world points.

Replacing the five additional injured riders and Gloria in the draw are No. 36 Brock Radford (-5 points behind Gloria), No. 37 Cannon Cravens (-40 points), No. 38 Emilio Resende (-100 points), No. 39 Cody Jesus (-110 points), No. 40 Alisson de Souza (-135 points) and No. 61 Chase Outlaw (-387.5 points).

No. 42 Rubens Barbosa is this weekend’s Real Time Pain Relief Velocity Tour invite following the 34-year-old’s victory in Rapid City, South Dakota, last weekend.

Barbosa is 190.84 points out of the Top 35 and is slated to face Ug Mug (0-0, PBR UTB) in Round 1.

World leader Kaique Pacheco has drawn Buck Nasty (0-0, PBR UTB) and leads No. 2 Claudio Montanha Jr. by 1,933.33 points.

Pacheco’s 5,246.66 world points is already more than Lockwood earned last year to win the world title (4,862.5).

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