Get ready for an unforgettable head-to-head battle as hometown favorite
Dylan Hancock takes on
2019 PRCA World Champion Haven Meged in an exciting Match Roping event at the
San Angelo CINCH Roping Fiesta. Hancock, one of the sport's fastest-rising stars and a National Finals Rodeo qualifier, will face the seasoned champion Meged in a showdown featuring speed, precision, and world-class horsemanship. Don't miss this as two of rodeo's elite tie-down ropers go rope-for-rope at the 73rd Cinch Roping Fiesta in San Angelo, Saturday October 24 at 1:00 p.m!
DYLAN HANCOCK:
Career earnings: $668,761
2025 world standings place: 6th (TR)
2025 Wrangler NFR standings place: 6th
2025 Wrangler NFR earnings: $128,481
2025 earnings: $300,585
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 2 (2024-25)
Professional
2026 Highlights
Tie-Down Roping
• Won Rodeo Austin (Texas)
• Won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo - Timed Events (Denver, Colo.)
Career Highlights
• 2025: Won the all-around at the Horse Heaven Roundup Rodeo (Kennewick, Wash.), the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo, the Killdeer (N.D.) Mountain Roundup PRCA Rodeo and the 154th Silver Spurs Rodeo (Kissimmee, Fla.). Co-champion at the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo (Castle Rock, Colo.) Tie-down roping: Hancock tied his career-best finish by placing sixth in the world standings for the second year in a row. He finished the season with $300,585. He placed in four rounds at the NFR, splitting the Round 2 win at 7.8 seconds. He earned $128,481 at the NFR. Won the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, the California Rodeo Salinas, the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.) and the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo
• 2024: Finished sixth in the world standings with $267,963. He placed in five rounds, highlighted by winning Round 7 and Round 10. He placed sixth in the average with 95.8 seconds on 10 head. He earned $133,067 at the NFR. Won the all-around at the Lion's Dixie Roundup (St. George, Utah), the Cache County Fair And Rodeo (Logan, Utah) and the Ute Stampede (Nephi, Utah). Won the tie-down roping at the North Dakota (Mandan) Roughrider Cup, the Silver State Stampede (Elko, Nev.), the Killdeer (N.D.) Mountain Roundup PRCA Rodeo and the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo. Co-champion at the Deadwood (S.D.) Days Of 76 Rodeo
• 2023: Finished 25th in tie-down roping world standings with $74,998. Won the Stockyards Pro Rodeo (Fort Worth, Texas), the Goliad (Texas) County Fair & PRCA Rodeo, the Rice County Fair (Faribault, Minn.) and the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah)
HAVEN MEGED:
Career Earnings: $2,040,462
2025 world standings place: 7th (TD)
2025 Wrangler NFR standings place: 3rd
2025 Wrangler NFR earnings: $146,125
2025 earnings: $279,930
Education: Western Oklahoma State College (Altus, OK, 2016-2018); Tarleton State University
PRCA World Championships: 1 (2019)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 2 (2019, 2023)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 7 (2019-25)
Professional
2026 Highlights
• Co-champion at the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show (Union, Ore.)
Career Highlights
• 2025: Meged finished seventh in the world standings with $279,930. He placed third in the average at the NFR with 90.0 seconds on 10 head. He earned $146,125 at the NFR. He placed in three rounds and he won Round 9 (7.0 seconds). Won the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days, the Dillon Jaycees PRCA Rodeo-Montana's Biggest Weekend, the Evanston (Wyo.) Cowboy Days, the Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo (Kalispell, Mont.), the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede, the Little Big Horn Stampede (Hardin, Mont.), the Central Montana PRCA Rodeo (Lewiston, Mont.), the Newell Pro Rodeo (Brooks, Alberta) and the Montana (Great Falls) Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals. Co-champion at the Utah's Own PRCA Rodeo (Salt Lake City, Utah) and the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.). Won the all-around at the Sanders County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Plains, Mont.)
• 2024: He placed third in the world standings with $387,791. He placed in a total of five rounds highlighted with a Round 6 win. He finished third in average race with a time of 93.4 seconds on 10 head. He earned a total of $166,482 at the NFR. Won the all-around at the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.), the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo and the Bozeman (Mont.) Stampede. Won the tie-down roping at the Calgary (Alberta) Stampede, the IPE and Stampede (Armstrong, British Columbia), the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo, the Bear Paw Roundup (Chinook, Mont.), the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Williams Lake (British Columbia) Stampede, the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede and the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo. Co-champion at the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.), the Horse Heaven Roundup Rodeo (Kennewick, Wash.) and the Daines Ranch Pro Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta)
• 2023: Meged wrapped up the 2023 ProRodeo season second in the PRCA | RAM World Standings. He captured his second NFR Average title with a record setting 77.4 seconds on 10 head. Over the course of 10 rounds in Las Vegas, he earned $216,195. This included placing in eight rounds and setting an NFR record with a 6.4-second run to win Round 7. Meged also won the tie-down roping at Grande Prairie (Alberta) Stompede, the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), the Last Chance Stampede (Helena, Mont.), That Famous Preston (Idaho) Night Rodeo, the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede, the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo, the Golden Spike Rodeo (Tremonton, Utah), Co-champion at the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), Co-champion at the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.)
• 2022: Ended the season eighth in the tie-down roping world standings, capturing $227,897 in season earnings. Claimed his fourth-straight NFR berth, finishing fourth in the average with 117.5 seconds on 10 head. Meged compiled $71,869 at the NFR, placing in five rounds. His best finish came in Round 4, notching 8.1-second run for a split fourth-place finish. Won the all-around at the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the Dillon Jaycees PRCA Rodeo- Montana's Biggest Weekend and the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.). Won the tie-down roping at the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo, the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days and the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.). Co-champion at The War Bonnet Round Up (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
• 2021: Finished second in the world standings with $299,091. He won Round 7 and 9, while placing in five other rounds. That helped him place second in the average with 91.2 seconds on 10 head. He earned $197,237 at the NFR. Won the all-around at the Newtown (N.D.) Rodeo Days and the Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede. Won the tie-down roping at the Montana (Kalispell) Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals, the Ropings Fiesta (San Angelo, Texas), the PPCLA PRCA Rodeo (Mineral Wells, Texas), the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and the St. Paul (Oregon) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Sanders Country Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Plains, Mont.)
• 2020: Won Rounds 6 and 10 and placed in two other rounds at the Wrangler NFR. He finished 11th in the average with 93.5 seconds on nine head. Finished 7th in the world standings with $141,479. Won the Carson (Iowa) Community Rodeo and the Jerome (Idaho) County Fair and Rodeo. Co-champion at the Newtown (N.D.) Rodeo Days
• 2019: Won his first tie-down roping world championship at his first Wrangler NFR with $126,135. He placed in five rounds and won the average with a time of 85.7 seconds on 10 head. Won the Washington (Puyallup) State Fair Pro Rodeo, the Ram National Circuit Finals (Kissimmee, Fla.), the Deadwood (S.D.) Days Of 76 Rodeo, the Eastern Montana (Miles City) Fair Rodeo and the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.). He was the PRCA | Resistol Rookie of the Year in Tie-down Roping.
• 2018: Montana Circuit Year End Tie- Down Roping Champion