Stephen Bunting

Stephen Bunting, known as The Bullet, is an English darts player and a former BDO world champion. Born in Liverpool on 9 April 1985 and based in St Helens, he was ninth on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £603,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with ten senior titles, a total it compiles across all of its senior competitions. He reached a peak ranking of fourth in 2025.

He won the BDO World Championship in 2014 and switched to the PDC after taking a Tour Card that year. His first PDC title came at Players Championship 2 in 2016, where he beat Michael van Gerwen 6-4 in the final, and his first PDC major title came at the 2024 Masters, where he beat Van Gerwen 11-7. In 2025 he won the Bahrain Darts Masters, beating Gerwyn Price 8-4, and his first European Tour title at the International Darts Open, beating Nathan Aspinall 8-5. He reached the semi-finals of the PDC World Championship in 2021 and 2025.

At the 2026 World Championship he was the fourth seed and lost 4-3 to James Hurrell in the third round. He won two nights of the 2026 Premier League and finished fifth in the table. At the World Grand Prix he lost 3-1 in sets to James Wade in the second round. At the Dutch Darts Championship he beat Aspinall 6-1 and Damon Heta 6-3 before losing 7-4 to Niels Zonneveld in the semi-finals. At the European Championship he beat Danny Noppert 6-5 and Kim Huybrechts 10-3 and lost 10-3 to Price in the quarter-finals. The PDC records three nine-dart finishes for him in its senior events and four across all of its events. He throws 23-gram Target darts and walks on to "Titanium" by David Guetta.