Cold River Boerboels Media, Interviews and Features.
World-Record Performance Boerboels: Bred to Work, Proven to Win. The story behind Cold River Boerboels.
Cold River Boerboels has earned recognition for producing powerful, athletic Boerboels with proven performance in the real world. From record-setting weight pull performances to features, podcasts and interviews with respected names throughout the dog and performance community, our work continues to reach audiences well beyond the Boerboel breed. This page brings together media features, articles, podcasts and interviews highlighting Cold River Boerboels, our dogs, and the philosophy behind our breeding, training, conditioning, and nutrition programs. Explore the stories, conversations, and independent coverage behind a performance-driven Boerboel program built on decades of hands-on working-dog experience. Come see why Cold River Boerboels is recognized by many as one of the leading performance Boerboel breeders in the world, and why our dogs, training methods, breeding philosophy, and record-setting performances continue to gain attention throughout the working-dog community.
Much of this coverage centers on weight pull. For the rules, classes, training and official UPF results behind those pulls, see our Boerboel weight pull page.
Our conditioning program comes up throughout our video interviews, including our exclusive “World’s Strongest Boerboel” interview, The Weight Pull Podcast, and our feature on All World Doberman Club. We talk through the Keep, our 8 to 10 week build that gets a dog ready for competition with strict conditioning, the right vitamins and supplements, and proper food management. To see how we feed through the Keep and on competition day, visit our Boerboel Nutrition page.
Featured Articles and Media Coverage
FEATURED BY BULLY MAX.
How This Elite Breeder Raises Record-Shattering Dogs
Bully Max goes inside Cold River Boerboels to explore the genetics, training and nutrition behind our record-setting performance program.
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World's Strongest Boerboel: Cold River Boerboel's Exclusive Interview
An in-depth conversation with Cold River Boerboels covering record-setting performance, working-dog genetics, structure, temperament, conditioning, nutrition, and the philosophy behind our breeding program..
FEATURED ON PR NEWSWIRE
Cold River's Sun Wukong Sets 16,917-Pound Weight Pull Record
PR Newswire coverage of the sanctioned Bully Max weight-pull event where Cold River's Sun Wukong completed an officially judged 16,917-pound pull, establishing a new UPF-recognized record.
Also published by Yahoo Finance
THE WEIGHT PULL PODCAST
Cold River Boerboels — Weight Pull Podcast Interview
Cold River Boerboels joins The Weight Pull Podcast for a conversation about competitive weight pull, performance dogs, conditioning, breeding, and the experience behind producing dogs capable of competing at the highest level.
FEATURED IN PET AGE
African Boerboel Sets World Record at Bully Max Weight Pull
Pet Age reports on Cold River's Sun Wukong and his record-setting 16,917-pound performance in sanctioned UPF competition.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
ALL WORLD DOBERMAN CLUB
South African Boerboel Mastiff & Weight Pulling — Cold River Boerboels
Cold River Boerboels joins All World Doberman Club for an in-depth discussion on the South African Boerboel, competitive weight pulling, working-dog temperament, health and breeding standards, conditioning, and the training philosophy behind developing confident performance dog
Featured on All World Doberman Club — reaching more than half a million YouTube subscribers.
BULLY MAX — WORLD RECORD COVERAGE
Sun Wukong Sets 16,917-Pound Weight Pull World Record
Bully Max covers Cold River's Sun Wukong and his officially judged 16,917-pound performance at the Bully Max Training Facility. The sanctioned UPF event marked another milestone for Cold River Boerboels and established Sun Wukong's record-setting performance on the weight-pull track.
FEATURED ON STREETINSIDER
Sun Wukong's 16,917-Pound World Record Receives National Coverage
StreetInsider published coverage of the sanctioned UPF weight-pull event where Cold River's Sun Wukong completed an officially judged 16,917-pound pull. The coverage names Cold River Boerboels and documents the record-setting performance that brought national attention to Sun Wukong and the Cold River performance program.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
CATCH DOG CONCEPTS
Inside Cold River Boerboels: Breeding, Temperament & Performance
Cold River Boerboels joins JaVier Long of Catch Dog Concepts for an in-depth conversation about the Boerboel as a true utility dog, breed standards, bloodlines, temperament, genetics, nutrition, performance, and breeding for weight pulling. The discussion also explores Cold River's background in working dogs and the philosophy behind producing stable, capable Boerboels with the structure and drive to perform.
PROUDLY SPONSORED
BULLY MAX
Fueling Cold River's Competition Boerboels
Cold River Boerboels is proudly sponsored by Bully Max. We feed Bully Max Pro Series 31/25 and the Bully Max supplement line as part of our competition program, and Bully Max has covered our dogs and their record-setting pulls.
Learn what we feed and how we use Bully Max in our program →