Joe Cullen

Joe Cullen, known as The Rockstar, is an English darts player from Bradford and the 2022 Masters champion. Born in Bradford on 13 July 1989, he was 32nd on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £273,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 13 senior titles, made up of the Masters and 12 Pro Tour events.

Cullen won three PDC Youth Tour titles in 2011, the season in which he made his World Championship debut. His first ranking titles came at Players Championships 8 and 16 in 2017. He won his first European Tour title at the 2019 European Darts Matchplay, beating Michael van Gerwen 8-5, and beat Van Gerwen by the same score in the final of the 2020 International Darts Open. In January 2022 he won the Masters, defeating Jose De Sousa 11-8 in the semi-finals and Dave Chisnall 11-9 in the final. He then reached the 2022 Premier League play-off final, losing 11-10 to Van Gerwen. He has reached the last 16 of the World Championship three times, and in 2023 he was a semi-finalist at both the World Matchplay and the World Grand Prix. In 2025 he won Players Championships 5 and 27, beating Gian van Veen and Gerwyn Price 8-7 in those finals.

He lost 6-0 to Josh Rock at the Hungarian Darts Trophy in August 2026, then lost his opening matches at the Czech Darts Open and the Flanders Darts Trophy, both 6-3, to Stephen Burton and Andy Baetens. He lost 2-1 in sets to James Wade in the first round of the World Grand Prix and 6-5 to Tom Bissell at the Swiss Darts Trophy. The PDC records three nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events. He throws 21-gram Winmau darts and walks on to "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis.