"The Future Is DARTS!" - Eddie Hear Explains Why Professional Darts Will Be BIGGER Than Boxing
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Eddie Hearn shares how the sport of darts has exploded under his leadership, now rivaling the popularity of Premier League football in the UK. He discusses the rise of young stars like Luke Littler and predicts the sport's takeover of the US market. ---
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Great thing about darts, no matter who is playing if they're throwing good the crowd will back them, when someone is on a 9 darter there isn't a person in the room that doesn't want to see it including their opponent. Best crowd in any sport.
So true. There's no animosity or hatred. Just good vibes.
100% my darting brother!
Except for the fans who throw beer at players or whistle when players are throwing
@@ComradDave Yeah those are annoying, though it's just one or two people at fault. I'm sure I've seen someone getting kicked out for it in recent months so hopefully they'll crack down on it when it happens and it'll stop.
Eddie is the best promoter out there. He is a typical London lad who knows how to sell ice to am eskimo
Eddie he's a disgrace like his dad
He's really not, Frank is clearly the best promoter😂
@@Rrr20058bvscnot even close
Dana white is far better imo the dude is invincible at spewing nonsense
All he’s doing here is selling darts to the world 😂 good promoter
Wow I thought I was the only one who knew this hahaha. No lie I just started watching darts on RUclips the past few months after I put up my dart board. This is must watch, I’m telling you. Its electric. The U.K. crowd goes berserk, it’s incredible. Its like a big party and the audience chants and sings to ever song. I’ve never seen anything like it. The way the announcer says ONE HUNNNDREDDD AND EIIIGHTYYY is the best. I already have certain dart players I like to watch but Luke “The Nuke” Littler has been my instant favorite from first watch.
We are on the same page dude...
Don't see it catching on. I have only been wrong once on a Game Industry prediction. It's funny. I was asked if the "Barbie Water Race game" was a good investment. I said No. It was to loud and too much maintenance. The game only lasted 5 seconds paid out minimal prize tickets and took no skill. Turns out kids 8 and under LOVED IT. They just pumped the money into it and parents would give them more to shut them up, lol.
I went to industry trade shows and would predict 100% which games were worth the investment. In fact I predicted 3 month, 6 month and 1 year earning and the game resell value for the same periods. I was always right. I would evaluate every single piece at the show even the oddities. CAPCOM Loved me.
@@YouAreOneOfUs And your points being? 🎯 has been on earth since Noah fell off the ark. Barbie???? I'm sure Ken had a dartboard in his bar... ☺
@@YouAreOneOfUs Your comedy routine is not going to be successful. You're a legend in your own mind I'm guessing. Darts is spreading like wildfire. Americans are beginning to qualify for World wide tournaments. As soon as an American places in the top or wins a PDC tournament, it will explode. That could be as soon as next year.
Dart leagues are most often played in the U. S., in bars where you can eat drink and have fun. It's definitely on the rise. 17,000,000 dart players in the U. S. say you're wrong. That's 5 times the number of hockey players.
I work in London so around Christmas time I get the crowds on the same train from work. Great fun. The ideas for the fancy dress are amazing.
Should have shown the Michael Smith & Gerwen leg, best leg ever.
I can’t spake
Agreed! The perfect leg of darts.
Ooh Yeah 2 9 darters on the go was crazy
That was amazing. So glad I was watching it live.
i cant speak, i cant speak
I am a HUGE PDC darts fan and feel it should be noted that most all players with a tour card who are not top 16 ranked are working full or part time jobs as an income.
So, the goal obviously is that all tour card holders are paid and taken care of not needing to work outside of being a professional darts player. Hopefully that changes soon!
They work by choice because they are regular people but everyone in the top 50 is making £100k a year in winnings.
I watch PDC darts every week. The Premier League is awesome to watch. They play all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.
If they find more people like Littler De Decker, ... it will be greater every year
Precisely dude... Love it
@@petersymaeys6067 This past year has seen an increase in the level of great players, a lot of young great players to go along with some of the best ever. Gian Van Veen is playing excellent now as well. Luke Humphries is still fairly young and of course Luke Littler. I'm thinking that any of the top 40-50 in the game could win a tournament each week. Seeing two top players battling each week, averaging over 100, hitting 50% of doubles and finishes of 170 with 9 darters. I wish I could throw like that.
@@boroblueyes Yes, also Van Veen, Humphries ... are names that make watching darts a nice moment. On the other hand I was glad that I could switch to others things on tv yeasterday
I was there for the Luke 9 darter at the O2, it's class. Tickets prices are very reasonable compared to most other sports too
Started playing darts 40 years ago when I was living overseas among a lot of Brits. Love playing the game and love watching it. This week is the World Grand Slam tournament. Luke Littler, who is now 17, won last night in a huge come back game. Pretty much all of the PDC sponsored games are covered on highlight videos on RUclips.
The only sport you can be a top atlete with a beer belly
And now he just batters gerwin all over the place
I have been on a darts team for 5 years. It is a lot of fun. To watch the guys that are really good shoot is freaking amazing. Mind boggling actually.
Luke littler is going to dominate for the next 25 years
I threw in a dart League back in the 80's in Chattanooga, TN. We had a large dart League, it was amazing fun and good competitive fun.
I started driving semi OTR in 1990 and had to give up my darts. Every bar in my town was doing darts. Great fun.
The world champion who lost accepted it so.gracefully and open-heartedly. Beautiful to watch.
The world champion won that match ;)
@@RoughChopTomthat was the Premier League Final which Littler won. Although you would be right in saying that humphries won the world championship final
I'm watching this 1 hour after little won the world darts final. ..Eddie's got a point mate
You can tell PBD was extremely interested and cut off guard by the Darts, phenomena.because he switched topic extremely quick playing like he wasn't
think he was taking it as a joke until Eddie said it does twice the revenue as the boxing and the I think the penny dropped 😂
We got two boards in the break room at my job. We all have our own set of darts.
Lol
Cheers Jay
I’m a darts player in California and darts needs more tournaments and coverage
Darts is massive in Iceland, Europe is going nuts for darts. Its in most pubs now. Its really weird how it blew up.
We were playing darts in the late 80's and it was a blast.
Eddie Hearns father is the founder and owner of the biggest dart federation in the world. So he’s kinds promoting the family business here. But.. he is right, darts is a great sport and super entertaining to watch.
Just a lil correction here Eddie hearns dad is not a founder of the PDC, he bought shares in it later on, he was originally just the promoter for it before becoming the governing body as there wasn’t much money in the PDC to start with, everything was BDO orientated until the likes of Bristow and Priestley etc founded the PDC 😊
Beer.
Cheerleaders.
Darts.
Crowds going crazy!
Darts is just 1 event going off in the USA from blowing up!
I've seen just about every major sport live, prem footy, rugby, MLB, NFL, even went to see the Lakers play, nothing even comes close to the atmosphere I witnessed at last years world championship, its absolutely mental, best in sports
I got into Darts last year hearing about Luke Littler, always saw it and thought it's cringe to watch and people watching a pub sport, man it's a phenomenon. I take everything back and love it now. The final between Luke Littler and MVG was amazing. Darts is getting bigger for sure, we need those personalities
Honestly the best nights out you can have right now is going to the darts. Been 3 times this year. Hearn is absolutely right. I am a huge football fan but lately football has taken a back seat on my TV.
Darts is just so much fun.
Agree with you Eddie 💯... we hear you.... 🎯 with the orsum crowd participation is phenomenal
Darts is literally British heritage, it’s the most quite essential British sport there is.
It’s tradition in British households to watch Darts around Christmas time when the World Championships is on!
It really isn’t mate… darts is no more popular than snooker or golf… it has a niche audience but it is far from having mainstream interest.
@@saneman7177darts is far more popular than those 2 examples you’ve just used (in the uk) even not darts fans watch the world championships final in the new year
@@ryanphilpotts5821 the world championships get around half a million viewers, so less than 1% of the uk are watching darts… it’s really not that popular mate
@@saneman7177 4.8 mil watched last years final mate so don’t know where you pulled 500k from 😂
@ yeah the final hit their highest ever viewing figures due to the hype around Littler… the tournament gets around 500k viewers each day… it’s not that hard to understand really, a bit like how lots of people will watch a football final but general match viewing figures are much lower.
The beauty of darts is tht u play BETTER while holding a nice beverage as u play!!!🎉🎯 🍹
I went to the darts recently. Loved it. The 8 points helped as well
Eddie knows!! Christmas officially starts when the worlds kick off, going again this year, best atmosphere! Up the darts!!
I have an online dartboard cabinet with built in speakers in my garage. About $1000 worth of darts. Been playing for years. I wish the PDC would come to the US but our players aren't on the same level as the guys across the pond
Larry Thomas Butler, nicknamed The Bald Eagle, is an American professional darts player who was the winner of the 1994 PDC World Matchplay Darts Championship. Leonard Gates is an American professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He is 2023 WSDT Champion of Champions, 2023 World Seniors Darts Masters winner and the former PDC North American champion.
@@cliveosborne8195 you named 2 players ??
@@charliemarshall746 Better than not having any 🤔
They do come over, once a year to NYC - but I suppose that's not very helpful if you don't live anywhere near there.
Luke Littler with the 9 darter👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 From MSG!!!!!
Darts is superb.
A lot of people would not get to experience it at some venues.
I've been to the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex, where the world championship used to be held & it was something very, very special.
Watched the great Phil Taylor win his 8th consecutive title there, then met him & numerous other dart players at the hotel they were staying at in Stifford Clays.
It's like hand archery.
Me and my buddy’s love steel tip darts. I’ve been watching these tournaments on RUclips for a while
As someone who has watched Darts since I was a child, few things are as captivating as watching these guys do what they do best.
Hats off to Barry Hearn, what he done with darts and snooker is remarkable👏🏻👏🏻
they need to introduce around the board, killer, cricket into the beginnings to see who start the throw, make it WAY more entertaining
It’s down to 2 reasons that darts is so popular in the uk it’s easy and accessible and also there’s drinking involved and I don’t mean easy as in everyone could be pro just it’s simplicity to play and you will find a dart board in most pubs and as I mentioned drink is a big part
Never thought I'd hear luke littler being spoke about on pbd podcast 😅
been watching darts consistently since feb, amazing sport
I'm from Liverpool and I play darts, I've been at tournaments with luke before everyone on the darts scene in the North West of England has knew about him for a few years he's been playing at this level for a while, I was telling my friends he was the future of the game for a long time and then surely enough was proven right last year.
Proven right??
He got beat in the final.
@@danielaherne9079he pulled the attention of the whole country to darts last year, plus he dominated and won the grand slam 2 days ago. He’ll be world champ soon.
@@danielaherne9079 youngest person to reach the final, highest average by a debutant, beat 2 multiple World champions and become the biggest draw to the sport. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
@AdamCooper180 how did he get on at the wknd?
I like littler I really do, but humphries is the best player in the world. Fact.
New world champion !
Am 35 and I've watched darts since late 90s with the BDO it's always been a big deal to me am glad the whole world is catching on
Pats brain is turning on how he can get in on the league.. you can see it.
The US needs something like darts. Any sports event is way too family based, just compare the chants from football from the UK to the US. We’ve been doing it in Europe for a while now, and going to a darts match is basically going to a party with your buds
A common man's sport played in pubs, and as long as the tickets are still affordable for the common man, not just for the ultra greedy!
I got a dartboard last year at 15, loving it! Me and my dad have been playing pretty much every night since 😂
I started playing darts with my dad when I was 15, I'm now 43, he's 70 and we still play at least 3 times a week! Great times, in a few years if you haven't already and you're in England, you should look up a darts league to join, it's great fun and people are very welcoming.
@ Lovely mate, it’s such a good thing to do. I’ll look into joining a league but I’ll have to get a bit better first: I’m only averaging low to mid 40s at the moment so I think I’ll get battered 😂
@@-_Blitz_- Good luck!
@@lukesball1 Thanks, you too!
Wrong idea eddie to share this clip and NOT the best leg theres ever been dude?!?! Smith vs MVG for the world championship, both are on perfect 6 darts, but MVG missed and bully boy takes it. German clip of crowd going crazy is really awesome to see for americans. Seeing how big it is for them is influential
Not really. He is a promoter. You have the current World Champion and the hottest property in the sport going at it. This was the best clip to show someone to get extra business. Now was it the best 9 darter of course not the MVG v MS was. But that was 2 years ago now.
If ya love the darts stand up 🧍🏼♀️🇨🇦
Eddie's right darts is getting bigger even casual people are loving it....its growing at a phenomenal rate 👌
I was great at darts in college. I should take it up again!
Darts is one of these sports that after you watch one good leg you’re hooked for life
Luke Littler should win the BBC sports personality award! What a role model for the game!!
Is the BBC sports personality award still relevant?
RFL fucked up when they didn’t let Eddie Hearn take control of rugby league - he wanted to. Product is unreal and fans are tribal. He would have taken it out of the northern working class
GOTTA Love the DARTS!!! 🎯🙌
Darts can be a success in the US because of the pauses in between games great for TV advertising
Best thing about darts. You cannot cheat. You cannot roll around on the floor like ponce.
It’s simple but pure and everyone can play.
I’m dying to go to an event.
Cheap to produce, can charge audience to attend, and drink, gets big ratings. The reason pool can't do this is because the games played rarely encourage impressive (to view) shot making. With a changed rule set for pool, it could become far more spectacular. Matchroom also dominates pool, but 9-ball is mostly a breaking competition, as is 8-ball and 10-ball formats, hence the only highlights are jump shots which are mostly 50-50 jags. They avoid hard pots for safety 95% of the time. Darts forces players to GO FOR IT in 90% of set endings.
There’s a reason Efren Reyes is a lot of peoples GOAT in pool, because he would go for it. There are more players out there now that are better than Reyes, but they stick to the script and focus on getting a win - that’s the only downside of Matchroom’s Tour - needs to be more exhibitions from Matchroom to grab people’s interests.
incidentally matchroom run the pool events as well.
@@ryandavies2634 The 15 ball rotation game Efren grew up on, much like the 2 shot push out early 9-ball version Keith Mc Creedy played presented big shot options far more than the modern game.
I've been throwing for 40 years. It's not going to take over the US unless America can produce a homegrown Luke Littler... which isn't going to happen. I hope I'm wrong... I love watching it.
Just won an absolute classic against the Legend that is Gary Anderson in the Grand Slam semi final.
Don't sleep on darts, the whole family can play, no real athletic prowess needed, it teaches you maths, it is a true crowd pleaser.
Snooker, darts and backing horses are all good for teaching people maths 😂❤
Proper night out is the darts 💯
Darts is finally getting the American push we deserve!!
Once the market is strong enough youll have big TV events in the US on their prime time slot rather than early to suit UK TV
A darts version of drive to survive would be amazing!
Darts could become the next big thing. I've been playing in a dart league off and on for 15 years now.
Been watching almost a year and I love it !!
Boxing is very often underwhelming. The best guys fight once or twice a year. So many negotiations, so many years of building up a record and reputation and protecting the record etc. you could have 6 months of “hype” for a fight and it could be a snooze fest.
In darts like in other sports, the best play the best every week. Same top players playing every week. Darts is never boring as well. Once you appreciate how hard it is and how good these guys are, there’s nothing better, set play or leg play, anything can happen and it’s always exciting. Big momentum swings and pure action. Especially now with littler, the world championship last year was electric. The world champs are just set up and structured so well, so many matched each night and every night for weeks. Straight knockout set play. You feel like you’re a part of the action following from the start, littler was happy to win his first match at 16 years old, so for him to make it to the final dominating everybody was like nothing ever before. The whole country was behind him for the final. I don’t think anything can compare. No BS drama or transfers or hype. All these other sports rely on all that stuff to keep people intrigued, all these sports news channels and rumours and media work. Darts doesn’t need any of that, it’s just pure electric competition.
You’re talking about boxing in the US, not the rest of the world. But you have PBC to thank for that.
Worst thing for darts would be if Eddie takes over from his dad and splits darts apart onto different streaming platforms and adds ppv events. I really hope this doesn’t happen. But greed always wins.
Its getting better but still a long way to go
Darts is huge ive watched it since i was 6/7 with my grandad im now 25 and still watching better then ever the last year since littler
Love Darts 🎯
In our local
Social
Club we always just had one dart board it’s that popular now we have got 5 dart boards up and there always being used love a game of darts me
Darts is huge fun to watch. I hope the US falls in love with it.
This is like me trying to explain Game of Thrones to my mum
One of my Best Sales Managers told me once a long time ago......
Nothing happens in any business until.... SOMEONE SELLS SOMETHING. So True
Now this is what you call culture US! 🎯
PBD get yourself to the darts. The world championship runs for 2 weeks over Xmas, until you’ve been to the Alexandra place in London you’ve not lived! The atmosphere is off the charts! Sure Eddie can sort you some tickets out😜😂
With Litler breaking onto the scene Darts has genuinely become the 2nd most popular sport after Football which is outrageous out of context
Maybe I’m just different but I can get all the dart action I desire in a RUclips short.
Darts! If you want to know all about darts I know of a guy here on RUclips 😂
How old is this guy you know? @worldwidedarts
He's not a registered sex offender, right?
@@JD-re3cj It's me. I'm not young
FUCK YES!!!! Im a league player in denver and this shit is awesome. Zen, meditative easy game every human with arms can play. And no, you’re not better than me. Prove it
2:10 Luke Littler is the 2025 world champion
It's true, in the UK darts is massive and the players are household names, they all make millions. It is expanding massively over Europe quickly and USA is the next market
People don't believe it but it is the UK's second most watched sport
Trust me, get into darts, watch RUclips videos of the matches, you will soon realise it is the worlds best sport and you will be hooked for life, not even joking 😅
Not a sport 😂
@@sh3riffWhatever you want to label it as, it's amazing!!
@@jonathangilchrist9061 worlds best sport? Lol yeah right. We still barely care about soccer, darts isn’t going to be popular here anytime soon, or ever.
@Jkrogs18 barely care yet go mental every world cup ? And have a full blown league with hundreds lf thousands watching each week ? Lol
@ the average/most Americans could not name a single MLS player.
I beat Bradley Humperdinck Once... Luckily lol and he Loved me after That.
Love never Fails 💖
What he means is we don't have to pay them £30m a match. Littler's got me into darts though and its fun
😂😂😂😂😂
That's hilarious
I love throwing darts as well and appreciate the skill, but I'm also a realist.
Plus, we already have darts. They're called guns and compound bows.
Cringe
@JD-re3cj opinions are like.......
@JD-re3cj you stomper of all things fun and light-hearted.
Shame the best tournaments are on sky
I think it's already bigger in the UK. PDC premier league will start soon and will sell out 10k capacity stadiums on a weekly basis. Due to the nature of boxing they just can't compete with that
I played in a soft tip darts league many years ago. I don’t see it becoming a huge spectator sport here in the US.
Everyone should read about frank smiths career. How he went from trying to sell stuff to eddie at 14, allmost sacked at 16. Eddie gace him a note and that note spurred him on to postion he now holds.
I’m a darts fan but even I know darts will never fill a stadium
Luke Littler became world champion yesterday before the age of 18.
Would be interested in seeing how Hearn said littler made 5 mill in the last year. In prize money before the worlds darts championship he was on 618,000 so with his contract and sponsorships in his first year in darts he made 4,600,000? Seems off to me
Eddie selling his dad's business. Classic London Wide Boy
Eddie is spot on darts is an incredible watch it would be massive in the us with attention
What a clip man
Barry Hearn was not a silly man. He knew that u needed to put on a show around the actual sport to get joe public interested in a event not just tge die hard fans.
We in the u.s. love darts luke just one the title. I just got a new dart board
Keeps saying darts is huge and growing massively, but the World Championship prize money has not gone up a single penny in the last seven years. Someone is having it away.
Hearn knows nothing at all about our game of darts. Or boxing. Stick to snooker and match fishing pal.
Why aren't the players seeing the benefits of these ticket sales and record views?
Literally only a handfull of players are full time professionals
Somebody needs to tell Eddie Hearn that an impersonator called 'Hear' did an interview in his place.
Yeah I’m good! 👍🏽😆
Shame, your missing a great night out.
There’s only one Luke Littler.
Eddie Hearn knows how to market sport. Eddie’s dad is the chairman of Darts. He can’t do this podcast without marketing something that’s not making him money.