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Darts player
Dennis Priestley
Priestley in 2007
Personal information
Nickname
"The Menace"
Born
(1950-07-16) 16 July 1950 (age 73) Mexborough, Yorkshire, England
Home town
Mexborough, Yorkshire, England
Darts information
Playing darts since
1975
Darts
17 Gram Winmau
Laterality
Right-handed
Walk-on music
"Hell Raiser" by The Sweet
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO
1989–1993
PDC
1993–2014 (founding member)
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'ship
Winner (1): 1991
World Masters
Winner (1): 1992
World Trophy
Last 16: 2007
Int. Darts League
Last 32 Group: 2007
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship
Winner (1): 1994
World Matchplay
Runner-up: 1994, 1995, 1996
World Grand Prix
Semi-final: 2000, 2005, 2006
UK Open
Last 16: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012
Grand Slam
Group stage: 2007
European Ch'ship
Last 16: 2008
Premier League
Semi-final: 2007
Ch'ship League
Winners Group 7th: 2011
Desert Classic
Quarter-final: 2006
PC Finals
Quarter-final: 2009
Other tournament wins
Antwerp Open
1994, 1995
Australian Masters
1992
Australian Open Players Championship
2010
British Classic
1997
British Gold Cup
1991, 1992
British Matchplay
1991
British Open
1993
British Pentathlon
1992
Canadian Open
1993, 1994
Gem City Open
1996
Golden Harvest North American Cup
1996
Isle of Man Open
1988, 1989
Jersey Festival of Darts
1991
Le Skratch Montreal Open
2003, 2005
Los Angeles Open
1989, 1992
Pacific Masters
1992
WDC UK Matchplay
1993, 1994
PDC World Pairs
1995
Quebec Open
2003
Vauxhall Spring Pro
2006
Welsh Open
1992
Windy City Open
1997
Witch City Open
1994
World Champions Challenge
1991
Players Championships
Players Championship (BRI)
2008
Players Championship (CAN)
2008, 2009
Players Championship (GIB)
2006
Players Championship (IRE)
2008
Players Championship (NWE)
2009
US Open Players Championship
2009
UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers
UK Open Regional (SWE)
2007
Other achievements
November 1994 to April 1995 WDC World Ranked 1
Updated on 17 February 2008.
Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is an English former professional darts player. He won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC (now PDC) world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He was nicknamed "The Menace", after the Beano character Dennis the Menace, and reflected this by wearing red and black and using red and black flights.
DennisPriestley (born 16 July 1950) is an English former professional darts player. He won two world championships, and was the first player to win both...
Wright (2020 & 2022). The one-time winners are the inaugural champion DennisPriestley (1994), Raymond van Barneveld (2007), Rob Cross (2018), Gerwyn Price...
automatic qualification were 1 Colin Lloyd 549 2 Phil Taylor 545 3 DennisPriestley 446 4 Peter Manley 441 5 Roland Scholten 433 6 Terry Jenkins 430 Wildcard...
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match. He lost both group games in 1994 (to DennisPriestley and Graeme Stoddart) and again in 1995 (to Priestley and Lowe). One of the highlights of Wilson's...
The tournament was staged at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, Essex. DennisPriestley became the first WDC World Darts Champion, winning the final 6–1 against...
1990: Runner-up (lost to Phil Taylor 1–6) 1991: Runner-up (lost to DennisPriestley 0–6) 1992: 2nd round (lost to Martin Phillips 2–3) 1993: 2nd round...
Phil Taylor defeated DennisPriestley 6–4 in the final, with Taylor gaining revenge for his 1994 final defeat against Priestley. It was Taylor's fourth...
suit the tone of the comics, making Dennis closer to his comic book age and personality. Darts player DennisPriestley is known as "The Menace" and wears...
DennisPriestley 3–5) 1995: Semi-finals (lost to Rod Harrington 1–5) 1996: Quarter-finals (lost to John Lowe 2–4) 1997: Semi-finals (lost to Dennis Priestley...
1994 DennisPriestley 6–1 Phil Taylor 1995 Phil Taylor 6–2 Rod Harrington 1996 Phil Taylor 6–4 DennisPriestley 1997 Phil Taylor 6–3 DennisPriestley 1998...
(66.67%) Terry Jenkins 39–4–3 (84.78%) Andy Hamilton 38–5 (88.37%) DennisPriestley 37–6–1 (84.09%) Colin Lloyd 35–4–1 (87.50%) Michael van Gerwen 34–26–2...
one-time World Champion at the time and had lost his world crown to DennisPriestley in January 1991. Harrington made his World Championship debut in 1992...
Sky Sports have also used a player cam; a tiny camera was fitted to DennisPriestley's shirt to capture his view of the action while playing. Elsewhere,...
In 1994, the World Championship was held for the first time, with DennisPriestley winning the first PDC Triple Crown event, the only such win of his...
titles when he beat DennisPriestley 6–3 in the final. They were now level as the most successful players of all-time. DennisPriestley Phil Taylor Bob Anderson...
early rounds, before losing in the quarter-finals to DennisPriestley who took the title. Priestley defeated Eric Bristow by a scoreline of 6-0 in the final...
round. Butler's title defence ended with a quarter-final defeat to DennisPriestley, the man he beat to win the title the previous year. Jocky Wilson made...
January 2000 at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex. Phil Taylor beat DennisPriestley in the final by 7 sets to 3, thus notching up his sixth successive...
when he reached the World Championship semi-finals but lost 1–5 to DennisPriestley. Later that year he also reached the semi-finals of the World Matchplay...
held at the Circus Tavern, winning 11 of those 14 finals (he lost to DennisPriestley in 1994, John Part in 2003, and Raymond van Barneveld in 2007). The...
televised title. He defeated the reigning WDC World Champion DennisPriestley in the final; Priestley would go onto lose the next two World Matchplay finals...