Shaun Murphy and Luke Humphries in angry clash during 147 vs 9-darter debate

Luke Humphries and Shaun Murphy were some taking portion successful Paddy Power's Perfect Challenge to spot if a 147, a spread successful 1 oregon a nine-darter was the astir hard achievement

Shaun Murphy accused Luke Humphries of being a “comedian” with his bold nine-darter claim.

The reigning PDC World Champion was taking portion successful Paddy Power's Perfect Challenge connected Wednesday. Murphy was a subordinate of the snooker team.

Their occupation passim the time was to find retired which was much difficult: a 147 framework successful snooker, a nine-dart checkout oregon a hole-in-one successful golf. And understandably, Humphries was keen connected defending his sport.

He said: “I deliberation if you’re an amateur person, you don’t golf, you don’t play snooker, you don’t play darts, with a acceptable of darts, a snooker cue and a play club, I deliberation you’d bash the full successful 1 first, the nine-darter 2nd and the 147 last. It would beryllium harder.

“But for a professional, I deliberation the nine-darter is harder than the 147 due to the fact that arsenic you’ve seen, they’ve already been adjacent rather a fewer times.”

That assertion triggered laughter from Murphy, who replied with: “I didn’t cognize you were a comedian,” Humphries past asked: “What’s comic astir that?

After the snooker prima claimed that “the nine-darter is not harder”, Humphries doubled down connected his claim. He replied: “Did you perceive what I said though?

“When you cognize each the angles, successful my opinion, you person your ain one. When you cognize each the angles, Mark has travel adjacent already twice. When you cognize each the angles and you’re truly bully astatine the crippled of snooker, you marque it look easier to bash a 147.”

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Humphries’ darts rival Michael van Gerwen appeared to bask the exchange. He said: “This is good, I similar this.”

The statement continued to rage connected arsenic Humphries said: “Frames to legs of darts, you deed much 147s than we bash nine-darters,” earlier Murphy claimed that did not marque it easier.

Humphries replied: “I didn’t accidental it was easy. A nine-darter’s not easy, a 147 is not easy, a spread successful 1 is not easy,” earlier helium returned to throwing successful an effort to container his ain nine-darter.

Eventually, the situation was completed by Murphy who secured the 147 wrong the clip framework acceptable by Paddy Power. It came aft his erstwhile claims that helium was the lone idiosyncratic successful the world to unafraid a spread successful one, a 147 and a nine-darter.

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