GORDON MATHERS has insisted helium has a "new life" pursuing a 50kg value loss.
The World Darts Championship prima underwent the assemblage translation aft taking proposal from his family.
Mathers, 43, takes connected Ricket Evans successful the archetypal round of the tourney connected December 18.
He admitted that during his vocation and eating astatine the incorrect times caused his value to balloon up to 160kgs (25st).
However, aft unit from his household and the past calamity of his begetter dying astatine conscionable 57 owed to bosom failure, helium opted to bash thing astir his weight.
Speaking connected the TungstenTales YouTube channel, helium said: "People had seen maine astatine my worst.
"I've ever been large but erstwhile I got a circuit paper I stopped moving and the manner of a darts subordinate isn't the best.
"You are eating astatine the incorrect clip of the nighttime due to the fact that you person to.
"There is thing other unfastened truthful it is each junk food.
"So I blew retired truly severely until I came backmost to Australia.
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"My kids were the catalyst to suffer the value due to the fact that my begetter passed distant astatine the property of 57 with bosom failure.
"So they were ever into maine 'you're going similar large pop' and past my member really played successful the inaugural World Series with maine backmost successful 2013.
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"He had the value nonaccomplishment surgery, and I saw him spell done it, truthful successful March, I touched the value of 160kgs, and I conscionable made the determination that the clip was right.
"I'm down astatine the infinitesimal to 110kgs, truthful 50 kgs that I person mislaid successful six oregon 7 months and I would bash it again tomorrow."
Mathers continued to sermon the results of his monolithic value loss.
He insisted that helium has much vigor and is not near successful symptom aft 2 time darts tournaments.
He added: "I person truthful overmuch much vigor aft playing a play of darts. alternatively of having sore knees, I tin travel location and tally astir with the kids.
"They are blessed that I've done it, truthful I'm ecstatic that I've done thing astir my weight."
List of all-time Darts World Champions
BELOW is simply a database of Darts satellite champions by year.
The database does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) epoch oregon BDO satellite champions.
That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is lone listed erstwhile - Barney besides won 4 BDO titles - and nary of Eric Bristow's 5 BDO titles are included.
- 1994 - Dennis Priestley
- 1995 - Phil Taylor
- 1996 - Phil Taylor (2)
- 1997 - Phil Taylor (3)
- 1998 - Phil Taylor (4)
- 1999 - Phil Taylor (5)
- 2000 - Phil Taylor (6)
- 2001 - Phil Taylor (7)
- 2002 - Phil Taylor (8)
- 2003 - John Part
- 2004 - Phil Taylor (9)
- 2005 - Phil Taylor (10)
- 2006 - Phil Taylor (11)
- 2007 - Raymond van Barneveld
- 2008 - John Part (2)
- 2009 - Phil Taylor (12)
- 2010 - Phil Taylor (13)
- 2011 - Adrian Lewis
- 2012 - Adrian Lewis (2)
- 2013 - Phil Taylor (14)
- 2014 - Michael van Gerwen
- 2015 - Gary Anderson
- 2016 - Gary Anderson (2)
- 2017 - Michael van Gerwen (2)
- 2018 - Rob Cross
- 2019 - Michael van Gerwen (3)
- 2020 - Peter Wright
- 2021 - Gerwyn Price
- 2022 - Peter Wright (2)
- 2023 - Michael Smith
- 2024 - Luke Humphries
Most World Titles
- 14 - Phil Taylor
- 3 - Michael van Gerwen
- 2 - John Part, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright
- 1 - Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Luke Humphries