{"id":74274,"date":"2025-12-24T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=74274"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:10:55","slug":"michael-van-gerwen-brutal-message-peter-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/michael-van-gerwen-brutal-message-peter-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Van Gerwen Delivers Brutal Retirement Message To Peter Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael van Gerwen didn&#8217;t hold back when asked about Peter Wright&#8217;s early exit from the World Darts Championship.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wright, a two-time winner of the tournament, crashed out of the second round as debutant Arno Merk ran out a 3-1 winner.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed as Santa, he averaged just 79.2, and his knockout meant fans were denied a throwback to the 2020 final between Wright and Van Gerwen.<\/p>\n<h2>Michael van Gerwen delivers brutal Peter Wright message<\/h2>\n<p>The Dutchman sailed into the third round with an impressive 3-1 victory over William O\u2019Connor and proved he will remain a threat to favourites Luke Littler and Luke Humphries.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he was surprised by Wright&#8217;s performance, Van Gerwen responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m not really surprised by his performance because he&#8217;s been playing crap lately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s time for him to retire anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wright reached the quarter-finals last year but was knocked out in the second round in 2024 and the third round in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Scotsman Gary Anderson was more sympathetic towards Wright after his game.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson looked in fine form as he averaged 105 in his victory over Connor Scutt. He said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t play well all the time. People think we&#8217;re robots and you&#8217;ve just got to play well all the time or a bad couple of games it&#8217;s &#8216;he&#8217;s finished, he&#8217;s retiring&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just give folk a break, you know. We can&#8217;t keep doing that day in and day out. We&#8217;ve seen Michael van Gerwen do that for probably the last decade. He has a blip and it&#8217;s &#8216;that&#8217;s it, he&#8217;s finished&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael van Gerwen as brutal as ever when asked about Peter Wright<\/p>\n<p>Fuckinghell Mike, bit below the belt \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sho4SICET0\">pic.twitter.com\/sho4SICET0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh (@joshpearson180) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshpearson180\/status\/2003613496098144442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>World Dart Championship Prize Money<\/h2>\n<p>While Luke Humphries and Luke Littler remain tournament favourites, Van Gerwen has shown he will be firmly in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time winner of the tournament, he hasn&#8217;t lifted the trophy since 2019 but has reached the final in two of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Littler is 8\/11 to be crowned back-to-back champion, with Humphries 9\/2 and Van Gerwen 14\/1.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s tournament will pocket a cool \u00a31million, with the runner-up taking home \u00a3400,000.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-final losers will earn \u00a3200,000, and that is halved for those who reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-round losers earn \u00a360,000 and third-round losers earn \u00a335,000.<\/p>\n<p>For second round exits, it&#8217;s a \u00a325,000 prize pot, while those who failed to progress past the first round earn \u00a315,000.<\/p>\n<p>Any player hitting a nine-darter will be awarded an additional \u00a360,000, but there have only been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/world-darts-championship-nine-darters\/\">16 in WDC history.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u00a35million total prize-pot is a record total. That&#8217;s double in comparison to the previous seven years and \u00a33.5m more than 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael van Gerwen didn&#8217;t hold back when asked about Peter Wright&#8217;s early exit from the World Darts Championship.\u00a0 Wright, a two-time winner of the tournament, crashed out of the second round as debutant Arno Merk ran out a 3-1 winner. 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