{"id":52708,"date":"2025-06-16T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=52708"},"modified":"2025-06-17T03:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:07:30","slug":"josh-rock-world-cup-of-darts-wayne-mardle-major-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/josh-rock-world-cup-of-darts-wayne-mardle-major-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Mardle Believes World Cup Of Darts Win Could Be The Catalyst For Josh Rock To Win Major Darts Titles Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wayne Mardle believes that Josh Rock can go on and achieve major title success after winning the 2025 World Cup of Darts with Northern Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rock and his partner Daryl Gurney defeated Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton of Wales in an epic match, defeating the two-time winners 10-9 in a dramatic last-leg decider.<\/p>\n<h2>Josh Rock &amp; Daryl Gurney Win 2025 World Cup Of Darts For Northern Ireland<\/h2>\n<p>For the first time in history, Northern Ireland have been crowned champions of the world after winning the 2025 World Cup of Darts.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Josh Rock and Daryl Gurney defeated the Welsh duo of Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton in the final to claim the first World Cup success for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In what is being called one of the best World Cup of Darts Finals in history, Northern Ireland defeated Wales 10-9 in an epic encounter to clinch their first title.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland defeated South Africa in the last 16 on Saturday, before beating the Republic of Ireland in the quarter-finals on Sunday afternoon to book their place in the last four on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rock and Gurney faced the home favourites Germany in the semi-finals, thrashing them 8-1 to reach Northern Ireland&#8217;s first ever World Cup of Darts Final.<\/p>\n<p>Germany had beaten pre-tournament favourites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/confirmed-pairings-2025-world-cup-of-darts\/\">England, which consisted of a team of Luke Littler and Luke Humphries<\/a>, in the last 16, but NI proved too strong in the semi-finals to set up a clash with two-time winners Wales in the final.<\/p>\n<p>In what was a truly epic game, the match went the full 19-legs with Northern Ireland clinching victory in the last-leg decided. It was Gurney who hit the winning double eight, but &#8216;Rocky&#8217; was certainly the man of the moment with his power scoring for the Northern Irish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Greatest World Cup final in history? | Northern Ireland vs Wales Darts Highlights\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXP8It9xTOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Wayne Mardle Believes World Cup Success Will Inspire Josh Rock To Major Success<\/h2>\n<p>After their epic 10-9 win against Wales on Sunday night, Northern Ireland claimed \u00a380,000 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/world-cup-of-darts-prize-money-2025\/\">World Cup of Darts prize money<\/a> as well as the coveted trophy.<\/p>\n<p>This World Cup triumph also marks Josh Rock&#8217;s first televised darts title, with Daryl Gurney having won two previous televised majors at the Grand Prix in 2017 and the Players Championship Finals in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8216;Rocky&#8217;, this could well be the spark he needs to go on and lift major darts title of his own. That&#8217;s what Wayne Mardle believes could happen for the Northern Irishman, who has proved that he is world class on his day.<\/p>\n<p>Mardle is confident that this World Cup of Darts success could be the springboard for Rock to go on and complete in the later stages of major tournaments going forward.<\/p>\n<p>The former player turned Sky Sports Darts pundit believes the 24-year-old has all of the ingredients to push on and become a major champion in his own right.<\/p>\n<h3>Mardle: &#8216;Josh Rock Has Been World Class For Years&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Wayne Mardle, who reached the semi-final of the World Darts Championship on four occasions, believes that Josh Rock will kick on following his World Cup of Darts triumph alongside Daryl Gurney for Northern Ireland:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Josh Rock has been world class for the last three years. This may actually be the catalyst for him to go and kick on and reach major finals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We know he can do damage, we know that. But it&#8217;s doing it enough to reach the later stages on a regular basis. This has to give him the confidence to do that,&#8221;<\/em> Mardle concluded.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that Rock, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/josh-rock-under-radar-luke-littler-dominance\/\">eying up his first major and relishing going under the radar to Luke Littler<\/a>, has all of the ability to achieve special things in darts.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for him to push on and show that he can regularly compete in the biggest and best tournaments week in, week out on the big stage.<\/p>\n<p>Rock couldn&#8217;t have won the World Cup without Daryl Gurney, but now it&#8217;s time for him to show he can win big events individually too.<\/p>\n<h2>Have Any Players Gone On To Win A Major After Winning World Cup of Darts?<\/h2>\n<p>After winning the 2014 World Cup of Darts with the Netherlands, Michael van Gerwen went on the win the European Championship later that year.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary Phil Taylor won the World Cup of Darts alongside Adrian Lewis four times, and he went on to win multiple majors after each of his four World Cup successes, apart from in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Lewis went on to win majors after his World Cup successes with England too, but not in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Wright boasts possibly the biggest win after experiencing his first World Cup success with Scotland. &#8216;Snakebite&#8217; would go on to win the 2020 World Darts Championship just six months after winning the World Cup alongside Gary Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>He also won the 2021 World Matchplay and Players Championship Finals after winning the World Cup alongside John Henderson in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Gerwyn Price won the 2021 World Darts Championship winner after winning the 2020 World Cup of Darts six months prior with partner Jonny Clayton. He would also go on to win the Grand Slam of Darts the same year after winning the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Clayton won four televised titles in 2021, coming the year after winning the World Cup alongside &#8216;The Iceman&#8217; in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/luke-humphries-net-worth-career-earnings-endorsements\/\">Luke Humphries, who boasts a net worth of \u00a32m<\/a>, also went on to win multiple TV titles the same year after winning the 2024 World Cup of Darts alongside Michael Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Mardle believes that Josh Rock can go on and achieve major title success after winning the 2025 World Cup of Darts with Northern Ireland. Rock and his partner Daryl Gurney defeated Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton of Wales in an epic match, defeating the two-time winners 10-9 in a dramatic last-leg decider. 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