Marty Yates: The Fastest Run He Has Ever Made

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“It’s the fastest time I’ve ever been, I know that,” said Marty Yates in a press conference shortly after breaking the record yet again at RFD-TV’s The American, presented by Dish.

The back-to-back champion won with a time of 6.65 in 2017, then came back in 2018 with a rapid 6.38-second run to take home his second consecutive $100,000 at the event and set the bar even higher for the record time. 

The 2016 world champion tie-down roper, Tyson Durfey, who was commentating the event, explained the magnitude of what fans were seeing after Yates’ run.

“This is unbelievable, I’ve never seen a calf in my entire life tied this fast,” Durfey said. “6.38 — knocking on a new world record, definitely the American record.”

In Yates’ on-stage interview to accept his check, he talked about the fact that he’s a “go for it” kind of competitor and sometimes gets looked down on because of it, but the win only reaffirmed his tactics and he pledged to continue with that approach in the future. 

His tactic speaks for itself, as Durfey put it: “There is not anybody in the business that has tied more calves in six than this guy right here."