Hulk Hogan apparently couldn’t help but wrestle away a grand champion win at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on Friday.
Hulk, a 290-pound-plus heavyweight crossbred, defeated 744 other entries and is the top barrow pig of 12 that will head to the stock show-finishing Junior Sale of Champions Saturday.
His exhibitor is Kamden Montfort, a 13-year-old eighth grader from Mildred ISD in Corsicana.
“The first show I took him to, I won showmanship,” Kamden said after Hulk won grand champion in the Junior Barrow Show. “He just always wanted to be a show pig.”
Kamden is in her sixth year of showing pigs, but it’s her first year at the Fort Worth Stock Show.
At last year’s auction, the grand champion barrow sold for $140,000, and the reserve champion sold for $10,000 more. Bidders spent more than $10 million in 2025 on nearly 300 champion steers, barrows, lambs and goats exhibited by youth in the four major shows.
“I’m just excited to even be here,” Kamden said. “It’s awesome.”
Reserve champion went to a Hampshire pig named Prager. His handler is Adalynn Peugh, a 16-year-old sophomore from Grady ISD, northwest of Big Spring and east of Tarzan.
“My whole life,” said Adalynn, explaining how long she’d been showing pigs. “Third grade. My dad showed pigs.”
Her mother estimated Adalynn has shown more than two dozen pigs over her career. The teen has shown at the Fort Worth Stock Show since she was in sixth grade, winning reserve Hampshire last year.
Adalynn described Prager as sweet. The pig is curiously named after a Texas A&M baseball player now in the Cleveland Guardians organization.
“I love to talk to him,” she said of Prager.
She said she didn’t have a sense of how well Prager might do in Fort Worth.
“Nobody tells me how good they are,” she joked.
Kamden, however, was not surprised by Hulk’s success.
“I know my pig was able to do the things he did,” Kamden said, while Hulk took a well-deserved break and sacked out in a pen at her feet.
Kamden’s dad used to show steers. She was the first in her family to show pigs. Kamden estimates she’s exhibited 15-20 so far. Early results might have foretold her future.
“I won it all,” she said of her first year at a county show.
This year, she’s been working with eight pigs, all named after wrestlers.
“It’s been crazy,” she said.
Scott Nishimura is senior editor for local government accountability at the Fort Worth Report. Reach him at scott.nishimura@fortworthreport.org. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.
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