Most Won world Snooker Championship comparison

Most Won world Snooker Championship comparison
The World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker. It is also the richest, with total prize money in 2022 of £2,395,000, including £500,000 for the winner. First held in 1927, it is now one of the three tournaments (together with the UK Championship and the invitational Masters) that make up snooker's Triple Crown Series.

[@superted6743]

Poor Jimmy, honorable mention !

[@davidtomlinson6138]

I agree . Should've won at least one , min. ! Woman, drink n money , his downfall .drank with Alex , there you go .at least Alex won two.

[@claudevanderdonck5627]

And this year Luca Brecel 🏆🇧🇪

[@user-jf4cf9sn7d]

Довольно давно смотрю снукер, но сегодня узнал новое! 👍

[@jediroya6810]

Very tough competition these days. looking at the 2023 draw, if the 1st round goes on form, every 2nd round match will involve a world champion. to win you might well have to beat 5 world champions in a row, that’s mental!

[@5wisher5weet]

Is Hendry using a snap chap filter there? Looks like a model

[@daveherbert2773]

The biggest shock for me is robbertson and trump and Murphy only have 1 World each

[@Jimmy-ir4zl]

A lot of people said when murphy won his first he would win numerous more, I'm surprised aswell

[@ittaloceara]

Robbertston hates the crucible

[@colinmitchell6872]

​@@ittaloceara with Selby my least favourite player. Hate when either of them are on TV not great to watch. Don't like their style of play. Especially Selby.

[@jahno7154]

@@colinmitchell6872 You would've hated Snooker in the 80s

[@colinmitchell6872]

@@jahno7154 more characters in the 80s I've seen the reruns. Not as much coverage back then. Even the 🌎 🏆 did not show every match!

[@davidtomlinson6138]

For total , absolute , natural talent , its Ronnie.For entertainment , drawing the crowds and amazing shot maker , plus talent , Alex. bought the game to the public , peoples champ as they say .

[@likhumlamathew7287]

Does anyone know the name of this music??

[@CricketEngland]

So clad JP was World Champion after his horrific loss to Steve Davies It’s still the biggest win margin in a final

[@gaskellr44]

He was still affected by what had recently happened at the time at the Hillsborough disaster, being a fellow Scouser.

[@sugarray50]

What about Joe Bugner?

[@Fightladsnet]

It's very difficult to compare players from different era's. In the modern era, starting in 1969 when John Spencer won the first of his three titles then Ronnie O'Sullivan is, in most peoples opinions, the greatest of all time. Certainly both Ray Reardon and Stephen Hendry are on record as saying such. It's right that playing conditions and the way the World Championship was played in the past era, when Joe & Fred Davis, and John Pullman won so many titles was quite different. But it's also right to remember that in those long off days the final was often played over the best of 70+ frames, and a week's playing time. It was also a challenge competition in those days, rather than a knock out tournament. The only player who straddled both era's was Fred Davis, making it to the semi finals in 1978 (the second year the tournament was played at The Crucible), at the grand old age of 64, and losing to Perrie Mans. It's probably best not to try and list both the "old" era and the "modern" era together.

[@ratatat9790]

Your grammar and spelling are both very good yet you insist on putting an apostrophe in 'eras'. Shame.

[@Fightladsnet]

@@ratatat9790 You are indeed correct. I will take 100 lines

[@russianmegabot5272]

I agree. But where to Draw the Line exactly?

[@MrCheswickMusic]

Titles schmitles, Alex Higgins was THE MAN, let's see any of the others play drunk & on crutches and still entertain the fans, they're all great players, some of them genius level, but Alex will always be No.1 for me

[@gaskellr44]

Don't forget, none of the other players could manage to piss in a plant pot drunk, or headbutt one of the behind-the-scenes guys. Now that takes skills and balls....Pun intended.

[@MrCheswickMusic]

@@gaskellr44 I always feel sorry for Alex as the establishment 'black balled' him because he was his own man pun intended also ha ha

[@gaskellr44]

@@MrCheswickMusic I used to always want him or Jimmy to win, but I have since found out he was a nasty piece of work on the circuit, so I have little empathy for him now. Too many primadonnas like O'Sullivan on the scene, who also talk a lot of b*ll*cks.

[@sharkdom]

How did Graeme Dott make 3 finals man

[@aloisberger8891]

Jimmy white, 6 finals....

[@oldmanc2]

I know. Oh that black in 1994...I can still see it rattling the sides of the pocket

[@Gazzi79]

Hendry destroyed him multi times unfortunately.

[@davidtomlinson6138]

Lost em all, a tradegy .Best player ever to have never won it ! His own fault I'm afraid

[@berkc06]

Why did Hendry quit?

[@lg2525]

He got the YIPS, its a terrible condition although its mainly psychological and very hard. In darts its called DARTITIS

[@berkc06]

@@lg2525 thanks mate

[@comunistanuncatemcomida]

Eurosport will put Ronnie on the first place. Acctually they will say he discover the cure from cancer... Ronnie Sullivan is very good in did but i never see a player so much spoiled by the media

[@danielkirkby3601]

This might be a british game 🤔

[@deadstreet1675]

Had no idea 3 other people have won it more than ronnie and hendry.... why do they always talk about ronnie and hendry being the greatest when Joe Davis has won it 15 times?

[@eccehomer8182]

It was a different era of snooker with very few entrants. One of the finals that Joe Davis won he got a bye to the final, in others he got byes to the semi-final. To put into context the standard of play at the time, Davis didn't make a century at the World Championship until his second to last win in 1940, but then he was miles ahead of anyone else at the time, who knows how he would have competed nowadays? It's like comparing Juan Manuel Fangio to Lewis Hamilton. All of John Pullman's titles also came from a series of challenge matches between 1964 & 1968. The modern era began with the formation of the WPBSA when John Spencer won his first title in 1969. A lot of followers of snooker think of the modern era as the start of the World Championship proper... so that wouldn't include the likes of Joe & Fred Davis, John Pullman, Walter Donaldson or Horace Lindrum. Only two players that played in a final prior to this ever made it to the final again... John Pullman in 1970 and Eddie Charlton in 1973 & 1975... all lost to Ray Reardon.

[@deadstreet1675]

@Ecce Homer ok now I understand. Thank you for taking the time to educate me on that, as that really confused me... thank you.

[@Bob-js8xu]

Add Luca Brecel

[@topitancomparison]

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[@martinthody9335]

So, why do the media constantly report that Ronnie O’Sullivan equalled the record last year - he’s got to win another 8 times to equal the record!

[@elrondsch]

Because those "in front" are from a different era of snooker. Before all the modern day standards and rules were in place. The tables were different, tournaments and matches were unregulated. So yes, in modern snooker - Ronnie has set and beaten every record possible.

[@martinthody9335]

@@elrondsch I agree the other players were from a different era and Ronnie is, without a shadow of a doubt the best player of my life time (I’ve been a snooker fan since the late 1970s) and he’s my favourite player and the reason I still love to watch the game. Notwithstanding it’s almost impossible to compare players from different eras in any sport, those players were still the best of their respective contemporaries and some won the world title, in whatever form it took, more times than Ronnie.

[@elrondsch]

@@martinthody9335 Look, if you invented a new game and there would only be you and your friend playing. So you make a world championship event every year and one of you wins. So if you do this for 20-30 years both of you might be 15 times world champions. Then lets say the game becomes mainstream and there are thousands of professionals playing. And each year there is a different winner of the world title. So what would we see in 30 years? 15-20 names winning 1-5 titles each.

[@garethrichards9572]

You're either being sarcastic (kudos) or you are being ignorant.

[@harry2.01]

Even up to the 70s, most club players would play billiards. Without Joe Davis there may have been no snooker world championship. He put his own money in for the trophy, I believe.

[@Davidp1985]

Heavy under achieving by Robertson and Trump at this stage of their careers. Also still shocked Matthew Steven’s never won it and also I don’t like the old old players before the crucible and modern era should be getting mentioned since the standard wasn’t as good as it is in the modern era but still legends of course who helped create the game.

[@peterahazlewood]

Why are the players with worse conversion rates ranked higher? 🤔

[@magnusmcgee993]

My guess is that losing a final is like a silver medal.

[@Mallettize]

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[@utvpoop]

Reaching the final twice is better than once, I guess

[@thehumaninstrument4840]

Selby is the worst champion i have ever seen along with one hit wonder's like dott, bingham and murphy.

[@sluggerdaddy9683]

I'm curious, why do you think Selby is the worst? Bore factor with him or something else?

[@thomas-lo5pg]

Selby is 1 of the greats. Stay of the crack

[@thehumaninstrument4840]

@@sluggerdaddy9683 the most boring player slow and deliberately wastes time against top players.

[@Jimmy-ir4zl]

@@thehumaninstrument4840 That's an important aspect of snooker, wearing down your opponents slowly and taking your chances.

[@gemsandlasers269]

@@thehumaninstrument4840 I really struggle to understand how anyone that loves snooker doesn't love watching Selby.

[@jackybogues2495]

Joe Davis doesn’t count they had to win 1 match. With very poor competition ….. should be erased as a ‘world championship’ does not meet requirement to be considered..

[@eccehomer8182]

That's why most commentators refer to "the modern era" which began in 1969. Most consider the order as being, 1&2) Hendry/O'Sullivan, 3&4) S Davis/Reardon, 5&6) J Higgins/Selby, 7&8) Williams/Spencer

[@Davidp1985]

Heavy under achieving by Robertson and Trump at this stage of their careers. Also still shocked Matthew Steven’s never won it and also I don’t like the old old players before the crucible and modern era should be getting mentioned since the standard wasn’t as good as it is in the modern era but still legends of course who helped create the game.

[@johnsrabe]

Also Joe and Fred’s son Steve Davis! Pure nepotism.

[@johnsrabe]

But seriously, yeah. That’s like including the pre 1900 baseball pitchers who won 50 games. Different game. The modern era starts at Reardon, right?