Why are there 2 Darts World Championships?

PDC World Darts ChampionshipPrize fund£2,500,000 (2022)Month(s) PlayedDecember/JanuaryCurrent champion(s)Peter WrightPDC World Darts Championship – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PDC_World_Darts_Championship

James Wade hit his first World Championship nine-dart finish and the first PDC World Championship nine-darter since 2016 in his third round defeat to Stephen Bunting. … 2021 PDC World Darts Championship. 2021 William Hill World Darts ChampionshipTournament informationWinner’s share£500,000Nine-dart finishJames Wade2021 PDC World Darts Championship – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 2021_PDC_World_Darts_Championship

There are currently two recognised World Dart Champions the BDO / WDF Word Champion and the PDC World Champion. The first World Champion was Leighton Rees from Wales.

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Between 1994 and 2020, each organisation held its own version of the World Professional Darts Championship. The split was prompted by the game’s big decline in television coverage in 1989 and the early 1990s, and by what the players saw as the BDO’s inability to reverse that decline .