Mike Cervi is a Hall of Fame kind of cowboy who passed away at the age of 88 years old on March 19, 2025.
Cervi’s entrance into rodeo came in the 1950’s with the purchase of his family’s Colorado ranch and was followed up by the purchase of the Billy Minick Rodeo Company that we have now come to know as Cervi Championship Rodeo. Serving rodeos like the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo. San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo as well as RodeoHouston helped land Cervi the Stock Contractor of the Year title within the PRCA not once, but twice throughout his career.
Among his many accolades you will also find a ProRodeo Legend title that Cervi earned in 2022 and almost two decades earlier, he landed in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and much more.
“He was also a bullfighter, a contestant. And he was not only that, a stock contractor, a rancher, he owned a feedlot but he’s most well known for helping a lot of people out. I know dozens and dozens of people that say if it hadn’t been for Mike Cervi giving me that load, or giving me that job, or giving me that opporunity, I would have never made it in business. So thank you Mike Cervi for living the purpose of life and that is being unselfish and pouring into other people,” PRCA Announcer Justin McKee said.
