Florida boy competing for 'Best Mullet in America'

NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA. (WFTS) — There are hairstyles, and past determination is the mullet. Over the years it’s go a portion of popular culture.

For Kayden Manning of New Port Richey, Florida, it's concern successful the front, enactment successful the back, for nine-year-old Kayden Manning.

“When I went to schoolhouse connected the archetypal time each my friends were saying, ‘I similar the haircut’ and immoderate were saying, ‘what happened to your head,'” said nine-year-old Kayden. “Not a batch of kids successful my full schoolhouse person mullets.”

Kayden got the thought to turn the cervix warmer from his ain step-dad, Chris, who is successful a mullet chat radical with immoderate of his friends.

“We perceive bully mullet, saccharine mullet, whether we are astatine the shot field, oregon retired astatine the beach, anywhere, everybody loves the mullet,” said Chris Brotherton.

Kayden’s household ne'er thought their son’s Tennessee apical chapeau would marque him famous, until they discovered the website, mulletchamp.com.

“And I said, ‘wow those are immoderate beauteous bully mullets I privation excavation to beryllium similar that,’” said Kayden.

Out of 500 entries successful the kids' category, Kayden, with his signature American Flag look, recovered himself successful the apical 25. Now it’s up to the nationalist to ballot for the winner. The archetypal prize receives $2,500.

“He’s specified a saccharine kid helium said, ‘I’ll springiness you some,’ and I said, ‘no that’s your haircut, your mullet, that’s going close into your slope account,’” said Brotherton.

However, maintaining a title mane isn’t each glitz and glamour.

“Sometimes my hairsbreadth gets stuck to my cervix but I’m good with it, it doesn’t fuss me,” said Kayden.

So what does ma deliberation astir each this?

“They some tried to person maine to chopped my hairsbreadth into a mullet, I’m not that acold yet, but I similar it connected them,” said Brittany Hundertmark.

Kayden said helium plans to stone the mullet for the remainder of his life.

To ballot for Kayden spell to mulletchamp.com and click connected his picture. Voting ends October 11.

“Vote for maine Tampa Bay I got the winning mullet,” said Kayden.

This communicative was primitively reported by Robert Boyd connected ABCActionNews.com.