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'If they can't touch him, who is going to stop him?' - Premier League title would set Luke Littler up for Taylor-esque year of dominance says Matt Edgar

Originally posted on Dartsnews.com | Last updated May 29, 2025 9:48 AM ET

Later tonight, Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Nathan Aspinall and Gerwyn Price will do battle at the O2 Arena in London for the right to call themselves Premier League Darts champion for 2025. After emphatically topping the league table, reigning champion Littler is seen by many as the man to beat.

Littler once again proved something of an unstoppable force during the Premier League’s league phase, replicating the dominance he displayed last season — and then some. Already a standout performer in 2024, the reigning world champion raised the bar even higher this time around, breaking records and redefining expectations.
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The youngest world champion in darts history fired in an astonishing 169 maximums during the league stage, smashing his own benchmark of 128 180s set just last year. His historic run didn't stop there. Littler made Premier League history by winning six nightly titles, becoming the first player ever to lift more than four in a single campaign. He also finished the regular season atop the table with 45 points — five more than the previous record.

As such, in their pre-Premier League Darts playoffs analysis, the question was posed on Sky Sports' Love the Darts podcast: Who will stop Luke Littler? "This is the elite. This is the best we've got opposition wise to put up against him," begins former PDC Tour Card holder Matthew Edgar.

Edgar believes that if Littler does win on Thursday night at the O2, there may be no stopping 'The Nuke'. "What's it going to be like when we get to the Matchplay, the World Championship, the Grand Prix, when it's not going to be the elite week in and week out? If they can't touch him, who is going to stop him this year?" Edgar asks rhetorically. "It could be one of those Phil Taylor-esque years where he just runs through, picking up title after title after title."

"He looks so relaxed. He's one of those rare cases because, when you think about the players that have dominated the sport the way that Luke Littler could go on to do, the only thing they've had in their world is darts. From the moment they wake up, to the moment they go to bed, it's darts. But Luke does so much more and has so many more things that, actually, I think those distractions are a good thing for him," Edgar continues.

"Darts is just a part of his world, it doesn't become the whole thing. So if there is a setback, he's not going to notice it as much," Edgar explains. "It's not going to be something that railroads his whole career or his life for a period of time. He just goes: 'It's okay, I'll wait and go on to the next one.' That attitude is what's carrying him through."

"It could be one of those Phil Taylor-esque years"

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