Darts star Luke Humphries addresses £1m question as Barry Hearn dreams big Luke Humphries says awarding the world champion a £1million top prize would send a stunning message to the rest of sport.
While the World Championship winner's prize may not increase to £1m immediately, it could happen during that deal, which will mean huge paydays ahead for Humphries and current world champion Luke Littler.
If you've got the world champion getting a million pounds, if I win it, I'll be world No.
It means I won," said Humphries, who won the first ranking event of the year, the World Masters, last weekend.
The winner of the first-ever PDC World Championship in 1993, Dennis Priestley, collected £16,000 before it dropped to £12,000 for 1995, when Phil Taylor won the crown.
