Mike cervi obituary
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The Cervi Family and RODEOHOUSTON — A partnership for half a century
Cervi Championship Rodeo Company has been the official stock coordinator for RODEOHOUSTON for more than 50 years. Take a look back at how it all began with Mike Cervi and the long-standing relationship between the Cervi family and the Rodeo. Cervi was recently honored with the 2022 Legend of ProRodeo Award.
Mike Cervi
Born Sept. 9, 1936, in Denver, Colorado, he was quick to join the rodeo industry by becoming a rodeo clown at age 14. In 1958, the family ranch was acquired by the Cervi family, and by 1964 he was buying cattle and producing rodeos. Then, in 1967 Mike purchased what is currently known as the Cervi Championship Rodeo Company.
The Cervi Impact
Mike Cervi is no stranger to being acknowledged by the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, which he was inducted into in 2003 and is a two-time PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year (1983 and 2000). He also earned the Ben Johnson Memorial Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2015, for the growth and betterment of the sport he has contributed t
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In 2023, the Western performance industry’s top databases—EquiStat and QData—ramped up their efforts to track the earnings on rope horses, from the Riata-Buckle-enrolled horses at all Global Handicaps events to professional ropers’ mounts at the Open jackpots and rodeos. Plus, they count all of the exploding rope-horse futurity money in their systems.
This data will help breeders, buyers and the everyday roper make better purchasing decisions for the growth of the horse industry for years to come. But what about the past? What about the great horses, and their great bloodlines, that have no records in our current databases?
What’s more, few records exist (in any remotely searchable online space) as to the original money earners at so many famous jackpots and rodeos. Even Kory Koontz’s, Trevor Brazile’s and Travis Tryan’s biographies are now hidden from the PRCA’s website given that they haven’t bought their cards in recent years. That means their ProRodeo earnings, year-by-year, are nearly impossible to find without tapping archivists at the PRCA or flipping through
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Kory Koontz
Men Contestant
Career earnings: $2,543,536
2021 world standings place: 69th
2021 earnings: $14,931
Education: Vernon (Texas) College
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (1997)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 22 (1992-07, 2010-12, 2015, 2017-18)
Tour Finale titles: 1 (Summer: 2005)
Professional
Career Highlights
• 2021: Won the Santa Rosa Roundup (Vernon, Texas), with Manny Egusquiza Jr.
• 2020: Finished 157th in the world standings with $2,543
• 2019: (Partner Dustin Egusquiza) Finished 38th in the world standings with $37,084. Won the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo (Rosenberg, Texas)
• 2018: (Partner Dustin Egusquiza) Finished ninth in the world standings with $145,518. Placed 13th in the average at the Wrangler NFR, earning $39,121. Placed in two rounds. Won the Horse Heaven (Kennewick (Wash.) Round-Up, the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup, the Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days, the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo
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