Luke Humphries reveals a supposed dizzying prize money increase in the darts World Cup.
Has Luke Humphries chattered? The darts superstar mentioned in an interview that the winner of the next World Cup will receive prize money of one million pounds (corresponds to 1.2 million euros).
This would correspond to a doubling of the amount paid so far – but has not yet been officially mentioned.
Luke Humphries causes a sensation
How did the statement came about? In conversation with Talksport Darts, Humphries was asked about his current position as number one in the world rankings.
Humphries prefer to be world champion than number one
The Englisher said that this does not mean too much, before he explained: “For me, it doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven or eight months, it’s all about the world championships – we all know that the world champion gets a million pounds, so the one who wins the number one in the world.”
Humphries had won the 2024 World Cup, Luke Littler is the current defending champion. This also wants to take the top of the world rankings. It was crucial, Humphries emphasized a second time, but the World Cup.
“If I win, I will be number one in the world for a long time, and if Luke wins, he will be number one in the world for a long time,” said Humphries. To this end, the PDC Order of Merit is a prize money rating on a two -year basis.
There were already plans to raise prize money for the world champion during pandemic. The darts insider and legendary caller Russ Bray is also pleased that the step could now have been taken.
“Darts is getting bigger”
“I think the money is more than appropriate to be honest,” he said at Talksport , when he was asked about Humphrie’s unveiling: “I don’t know exactly whether there will be a world championship with prize money of one million pounds this year. But that will certainly happen in the next few years.”
The winner gets “already 500,000 pounds. This is all you can play, but darts are getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”