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Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson won back-to-back PDC World Darts Championship titles in 2015 and 2016, defeating Phil Taylor in the 2015 final in what turned out to be one of the last major finals of Taylor's storied career, effectively marking a generational handover at the top of the sport. Anderson's relaxed, understated on-stage demeanor contrasted with the more theatrical personas of some rivals, and his consistency across major PDC events throughout the mid-2010s made him one of the very few players who could regularly beat both Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen during their overlapping primes. His 2017 World Championship final loss to van Gerwen, in a high-scoring, closely contested match widely regarded as one of the best finals in the tournament's history, cemented Anderson's reputation as a genuine championship-level threat even in defeat, given the quality of darts both players produced. Anderson's Scottish nationality and his back-to-back titles gave Scotland a level of darts prominence it had rarely enjoyed since Jocky Wilson's era decades earlier, and his sustained run near the top of the world rankings throughout the 2010s places him firmly among the sport's modern-era greats.
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Phil Taylor
Phil Taylor won 16 World Darts Championship titles across his career, split between the BDO and PDC organizations after darts split into two competing governing bodies in the early 1990s, a title total so far ahead of any other player in the sport's history that it's rarely even discussed as a close debate. Nicknamed "The Power," Taylor dominated the PDC World Championship specifically, winning 14 of his 16 titles under that organization between 1994 and 2013, a nearly two-decade stretch of near-total control over the sport's biggest annual event that reshaped professional darts into a genuinely lucrative professional sport during his prime. Taylor's rivalry with fellow Englishman Eric Bristow, who had originally mentored and sponsored the young Taylor before the two became fierce on-stage rivals, produced some of the most closely followed matches in the sport's history during the 1990s, as the student steadily overtook and then surpassed his own mentor's championship total. Taylor's combination of mental consistency under pressure and remarkable longevity — he remained a top competitor into his mid-50s — made him the player most credited with transforming darts from a pub-culture curiosity into a genuine televised professional sport with major sponsorship and prize money.
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