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Topics: Luke Littler, Darts, World Darts Championship
Nasir Jabbar
Luke Humphries has dropped a huge bombshell regarding the prize money for the 2026 World Darts Championship after being asked about Luke Littler.
The Premier League Darts is in full swing as Littler leads the standings ahead of Humphries, with Gerwyn Price winning Night Six in Nottingham last week.
Littler, 18, won last season's Premier League and claimed his first world title last year when he destroyed Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in the final.
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'The Nuke' took home a staggering £500,000 after his darting heroics at Ally Pally, but that figure is now set to double.
That's according to Humphries, who revealed that this year's world champion will earn an eye-watering £1 million.
The 30-year-old, who won the 2024 World Darts Championship, was discussing Littler wanting to overtake him as the No.1 darts player in the world when he made the stunning revelation about this year's prize money.
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Asked what he thinks of the teenage sensation wanting to take his spot as the world's best, he told talkSPORT: "Not much really, I’m not fighting desperately to be world number one, I’d rather be world champion, which he is, so for him I’m sure he’d be more happy to be world champion than world number one.
"For me it doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven, eight months, it’s all about the world championships, we all know that the world champion is going to get a million quid, so whoever wins that is going to be world number one.
"If I win that I’ll be world number one for a long time, if Luke wins that he’s going to be world number one for a long time."
'Cool Hand Luke' added: "You can look at someone like Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price winning it, they’ll be number one, so it really does not matter what happens over the next seven or eight months, it’s who wins the worlds that will carry that number one spot.
"The gap between the other majors is so massive that it all depends on who wins the worlds now so whoever wins that championship I can guarantee that they will probably be number one."