The all-conquering Steve Davis, the defending champion and three-time winner, faced off against Dennis Taylor in one of snooker’s greatest finals. The world’s best snooker player against the unfancied ...

For a moment in the mid-1980s snooker ruled the world. The 1985 World Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor is usually seen as the high watermark, with 18 million viewers rapt by ...

Terry Griffiths, who has died from complications of dementia aged 77, was the rank outsider who in 1979 pulled off one of the biggest shocks in snooker history when he snatched the World Championship ...

Dennis Taylor (born 19 January 1949) is a Northern Irish retired professional snooker player and current commentator. He is best known for winning the 1985 World Snooker Championship, where he ...

Jak Jones almost caused one of the biggest crucible shocks ever at last year's World Championship, and Dennis Taylor reckons ...

Dennis Taylor splashed out £50,000 on a luxury car after his World Snooker Championship win in 1985. The 76-year-old snooker legend from Coalisland, Northern Ireland, first made waves in the snooker ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - When Dennis Taylor potted the final black to defeat Steve Davis in the 1985 World Snooker Championship final, 18.5 million British television viewers were glued to their sets at ...

The 1985 Snooker World Championship final remains one of the most enthralling sporting contests of modern times A record British television audience of 185 million watched Dennis Taylor and Steve ...

Come and join Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor as they recreate the match that gripped a nation, the 1985 World Snooker Final. A record breaking 18.5m TV viewers stayed up to watch the legendary match ...