What The Hell Happened To Rob Cross?

📖 THE DARK SIDE OF DARTS — 192 pages on every conviction, every match-fixing ban, every doping case, every scandal the broadcasters won't touch. Sourced from court records and tribunal rulings. 🔥 LAUNCH PRICE €9.99 (€5 off €14.99, this week only) 👉 https://hollywoodfiles.gumroad.com/l/... He averaged 107.67 to beat Phil Taylor in Taylor's last ever professional match, walked off Alexandra Palace on the first day of 2018 as the new World Darts Champion at twenty-seven years old, and collected 400,000 pounds. Seven years later, the same Rob Cross walked back into that same building, stopped on his way to the players' lounge, and admitted he had been hiding a battle with low mood for years — while the Insolvency Service had already banned him from running a company over 450,000 pounds in unpaid tax. The collapse in between is one of the strangest and most public falls in modern darts. In 2019, Cross was the fourth player ever to hold both the World Championship and the World Matchplay. He climbed to world number two. Two European Championships followed. Then the plateau started, and the form went patchy, and the majors slipped away. A quarter-final comeback against Chris Dobey in 2024 — overturning a four-nil deficit that no player had ever survived at that stage — showed the ceiling was still there. Then Luke Littler averaged 106.05 in the next round and ended it. In June 2025, the Insolvency Service confirmed that Rob Cross Darts Limited had gone into liquidation owing more than 450,000 pounds in tax, with Cross withdrawing more than 700,000 pounds from the company that should have gone to creditors and HMRC. The apology came on a podcast. The same day he was whitewashed six-nil by an American qualifier at Madison Square Garden. At the 2026 World Championship, Cross told reporters he had been suffering with low mood for a long time, had been taking medication he stopped before the tournament, and had been diagnosed with ADHD. He beat two opponents, then faced Littler in the last sixteen and lost four-two. Like & subscribe:    / @darts4fans   for more Darts-Videos! Do you want to start playing darts? Here is a good set for the start: https://amzn.to/45pkydb (*Affiliate-Link) ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►Instagram:   / darts4fans   ►TikTok:   / darts4fans   ►Twitter:   / darts4fans   Video Credits: PDC Photo Credits: PDC This video is intended for entertainment, commentary and educational purposes. *Copyright Disclaimer: allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. Contact: [email protected]