1985 World Snooker Championship - Steve Davis v Dennis Taylor Black Ball Final
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Never forget watching this in early hours of the morning back in 1985 with my mum, I was 15yrs old, it was just one of those moments you never forget.
Yup, I was 16 and watching it with my dad.
I'll never forget it!
I was 7
I agree. I still maintain this is the most exciting sporting moment I've ever watched live.
Snookers not a sport
@@matimus100 Yes it is, it is actually registered and officially a sport. So I don't know what you think it is lol
The frames were won in this order: 1-0 to Steve Davis, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-0, 7-0, 8-0, 8-1,9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6, 9-7, 9-8, 10-8, 11-8, 11-9, 11-10, 11-11, 12-11 Steve Davis, 13-11, 14-11, 14-12, 15-12, 15-13, 15-14, 15-15, 16-15 Steve Davis, 17-15, 17-16, 17-17 and finally 17-18 in favour of Dennis Taylor. When the final black was potted by Taylor at the end of the final frame it was the only time he had led in frames during the entire match which was at the most important time.
Great stuff. Thank you for that. What an amazing game.
I did not know he came back from 8-0 down! Thank you for that rollercoaster of a comment as i've never seen the full match.
Thanks for that. Good info
13:20 Steve down by 20points
Great comment :)
Still amazing to watch 36 years later. Amazing comeback by Dennis, considering he was so far behind in the early session. The most famous snooker final in history.
Fantastic quality video for 1985 footage
One of the greatest finishes ever and certainly one of the greatest comebacks in sports history!
It looked more like one of my games of pool at the pub than the final of the Snooker World Championship.
"Well I'm the best this year", what a line, what a final!
Alpha male response
What a moment this was. I was allowed to stay up to watch it, I was 7. Absolute scenes! And those glasses were epic.
I had just turned 8 and was watching it on a crappy black and white portable in my room,we must have been knackered at school the next day! 😂
@@roytheboy5179 good times! Probably got hit by a board rubber to wake me up. 😅
Hey Mr. Robert Pallet , same goes for me. I was 24 years old and watching it with my late mum got rest her soul. She was a big fan of Dennis Taylor and I myself used to play snooker everyday those days at the Hammersmith Snooker Centre those days. It was an old abandoned building those days , long gone.
I love watching these old finals, for me 80s was a magical time. Wish I had a time machine and go back !!!
Wow! 1985 is a different era, Slower table, thicker nap, probably different balls and No miss rule. But the human emotions are the same. A classic match that is part of the history and evolution of the game of snooker. Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor are part of it and represent all that is beautiful in the game and inspired generations.
+Samuel J Slower table? It was turf back then :D I remember this match very well. Brilliant snooker match but some terrible play.
Bikerboythousand Agreed, there were too many mistakes. But this match is an inspiration to stay positive and that anything can happen despite the odds.
+Samuel J I think stress and fatigue (it was after midnight) contributed to the mistakes in this final frame. The earlier frames were much better. But what incredible drama!
John G Fair comment. But David beat Goliath in the proverbial sense where in reality due to fatigue and stress and late hour ;) . I think Davis won 5 tournaments previously that year so it is a logical assessment. But Taylor still credited with a fantastic comeback to expose and utilise it.
Yes, the miss rule was notable by its absence. Slower table I guess, but would the balls reallyhave been different?
I was on holiday in England at the time and sat and watched it with my grandad. Miss you gramps. We loved watching the snooker together.
Incredible! I was 13 when this was on. Watching this with my mum and staying up well past bedtime on a Sunday night with school in the morning :-)
These guys were masters and this was a gentlemans sport. God I miss these days!
If Dennis was down by 8 to 0 against Steve how could he not have given up even if he did not show it. That ability to keep doing well when faced by almost overwhelming odds is a rare quality. 🤠
Amazing to think Dennis Taylor was eight years younger than what Ronnie O'Sullivan is now when he won this. He looked about 50 even then!
Ronnie looks pretty old now, so does John and Mark Williams
Ronnie is a dedicated runner, which must help.
Will always remember this classic match, i was 9 year old at the time and my dad let me stay up late to watch it
Dennis is a legend. And hilarious too. What a guy.
Love Dennis. Great man, and a great commentator these days too.
Are you pissed up ?
@@propjoe1060 Every time he commentates he mentions his 1985 win ..... yawn 🥱
Was with the usaf then living in Brandon, Suffolk. Stayed up watching this. Rooting for Taylor and couldn't believe Davis missed that last shot at the black
that face on davis when being interviewed PRICELESS
It's the 'miss' rule that changes the game...multiple times that younger/contemporary viewers would think "that's a miss", and in many ways that would have changed the course of this frame.
Having said which, as if life, we only play the cards that we're dealt, so - so be it! I remember watching this as a 14yo lad, it was absolutely magic.
WOW, one of the best matches in history. I still have to come back and watch it every now and then. Glad Steve can laugh about it now, Understandably he was so mad after the match. I can't imagine how nerves come into play under so much pressure. I would probably not even make one ball. lol
Man, I'm watching this knowing the outcome, 36 years later and it is still as tense as hell!!
😂😂😂😂
Steve was actually 8-0 up in this match, amazing comeback by Dennis!
18m watched spellbound. I was one with my now late grandparents. Happy days.
One of the best moment in sports
This is still the most exciting sporting moment I've ever watched live in my life!
For it to go to the last session, last frame and last ball was incredible.
I think this final frame still holds the record for the biggest watching T.V audience after midnight. 18 million.. I felt for Steve. Most people didn’t like him, very usual for us Brits who have an aversion to winners. Yes, it was an amazing recovery from Dennis, but incredibly, Davis was never behind in the whole match until this. And is anyone going to deny that Dennis had the purest of luck during the black ball exchange?
Luck balances out across the course of a match. Taylor was brave and went for his shots, so he deserved a bit of luck. And to come back like he did from 8-0 showed tremendous heart. On the whole he deserved it more than Davis, who basically threw it away (and who wasn’t very gracious in defeat).
@@paulofarrell6498 Well he was the Machine, The robot of
snooker so to speak, That was his character, He was told by
Barry Hern, Not to show Emotion, But the response was so
Funny, Can you Believe you lost, YEH! it Just happened in
Black and white, He never even shook Dennis Taylor's Hand
LOL. Have you seen the remake of this, It's Hilarious, I was
4 when this was on the Box, And was Lucky enough to be able
to stay up and watch it, 33 Frames, no wonder they lost it and
couldn't pot a ball, OMG, Those cues must have felt like Steel
Mate. What a final Great stuff.
This was the era of snooker that I actually enjoyed. Memorable characters with individuality. The lads I see today are more like robots! I thoroughly enjoyed watching this again. Thanks for posting!
Same with American pool. In the 70s-90s we had character players and exciting runout. Now they are all robotic and slow. No more Earl type shooting etc
YEH! but Steve was Named the Robot LOL. Boring That's what
they called him, But Barry Hearn Wanted it that way, Now Steve
your The Boring one LOL. Did you see his face at the end, OMG
Can you Believe what Just happened< YEH! it just Happened in
Black & White LOL You Had to Feel for Steve pall, I think Id'e Be
Very Upset if i lost by 4 points to become Champion of the World,
All that Hard work on the Black Ball for nowt, 33 frames though
WAW, Those Cues must have felt like Solid steal, I can only
describe it as a Boxing Match, Almost like a Rocky Film, They've
fought Four 33 Rounds, Who was gonna Fall First, Great Stuff.
And The Underdog Won it After all those years of being on top
And Untouchable, Davis gets Took out, you couldn't wright that
stuff, I wonder how Much Money was lost at the Bookies, Cause
my Money would have Deffo Been on Davis to win.What a Match.
Just watching Wilson vs McGill final frame has brought me here
Same dude. Can t believe it the history really repeats
My dad said he watched this. He was 15 at the time, and his older brothers went out partying when Dennis won the final in the early hours of the morning, and he had to go to bed as he had school 😂😂
I'm German, and did not have the chance to see it live as a kid and had no idea there was other billard games than pool or carambole. When I first came to England four years later I learned about the game of snooker as the family I was living in liked to watch snooker. It was Dennis Taylor who played in a match when the local experts told me about the rules - and about the thing that Dennis Taylor won the most exciting match ever. I just registered but really got to know about it many years later when I first saw the final minutes of this final frame. The tension is unbearable even if you know the outcome. The last minutes are of such poor level but from that you learn perfectly about the pressure which is on top players as well (and no matter what sport). A legendary piece of sports history.
Thank you @j.j.6341 for your thoughtful perspectives. Thank you for taking the trouble to learn snookerisms and the Brit humour and quirkinesses!!
Remember as a 12yr old kid watching it live with my old lady,my mam was knitting and she hated snooker but was absolutely glued to the 📺 set,it was just sporting theatre with the highest level of drama,I'll never forget it for as long as I live.
Dennis had massive balls to go for that double.
loved watching that. did not enjoy ads every 2 minutes
steve developed a personality shortly after
@Christian Cullen won the title 3 more times after
@Dean Wayne wayne bet they didnt think it would be so remembered all these years later
I always liked Steve Davis, and Dennis Taylor too. Not sure why so many are down on Davis. And I thought he was gracious and humorous in defeat, just not gushing a slurry of inauthentic bull. Both players were by the end of that massive contest, exhausted and had been playing at the edges of their nerves, as you could see by the errors they were making. It was thrilling stuff. They were both within one shot of the title, and Steve lost; can't blame him for not thowing cartwheels after that marathon. Not sure what more anyone could want?? Steve giving Dennis a tuggy??
@@vernonhedge4530 davis loved himself a big headed c.... he got a right uppercut from taylor which knocked him off his pedestal ...one big ego who fell from grace
Interesting
Yes watched this with my brother, we were both teenagers then punching the air and running around the living room at nearly 1 o'clock in the morning, mum came down in her dressing gown to tellus to bloody well shut up, great times !
35 years ago i watched this live .... almost had a heart-attack then so i'm lucky to be still around here :-)
Isn't it dangerous for you to watch it again? Jk
István Juhász 😂😂😂
@@bimbeano happy to make you laugh, just don't get too excited.
this was nail biting watching it back in 1985 I was 19 me and my dad were watching it into the early hours, Probably the most famous snooker game in the sports history
I was so upset at the time, but I'm at ease with it now like Steve. I remember where I was and how I felt.
Once again please thank you ladies and gentlemen! Quiet please
Wednesday 15th September 2022. My eldest son Julian and myself, went to the ARENA THEATRE ST ALBANS, to watch a hilarious evening of snooker. John Virgo funny as always, Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor, reinacting their infamous 1985 final frame of snooker. Getting people up on stage doing trick shots, then Steve and Dennis having a couple of frames of snooker, jokes all round. Finished up with question time, talking about my hero's, Higgins, White, O'Sullivan, Trump. Great entertainment, everyone agreeing that RONNY O'Sullivan is the greatest of all time.
Amazong considering the fact Dennis had his glasses upside down all the time
Matthias Jezequel lol
😂😂😂😂😂
His glasses werent upside down - they are specially made that way and give that appearance.
@@owenwilliams105 lol ahh lol thats the best one yet
@@johnmcgrath5698 Yes dont blow my cover. When Matthias says something soooo funny (not) then lampoon his joke. Amazing that such a witty person cant even spell amazing properly.
Tavy@ i still remember watching this live in 1985 and i must admmit its the most excitiing sporting moment i have ever seen. I was age 12 when i was lucky enough to have seen this live and at 12.3am or some late time it was still going on but how could my great mum and dad send me to bed when this was on as i had school the next day. But i had never seen or heard steve davis sound so gutted like that before, he seemend to be in a rage i thought and was trying hard to control it. Strait away i thought he didnt even want to talk to david vine. And he never spoke about the match or even the frame and black ball finish. Wich wasnt like steve at all. He just seemend to want to say 'i have nothing to say i am gutted and just dont talk to me. And once i get paid i am out of here. I thinck i heard or read some where it took steve a long time to get over that defeat. But well done dennis you were great. And what a come back. But if there was a 100 greatest sporting moments this has to be number one, easy.
A glorious moment of sport. What gets me is the reaction of the crowd at the end. You can hear people literally in hysterics - and not the laughing kind. In terms of tension and excitement I doubt this will ever be bettered.
Steve Davis still owes me £5 for this result. And it kept us up till 2am with lectures the next morning
Dennis Taylor still looks the same. When I was watching this as a child (on re-runs) I thought he probably looked the age he was when he won it (36) but now being extremely close to that age myself I see he did look older than he was although now he looks his age.
Steve Davis should be knighted he is one of the greatest sportspeople this country has produced and also still commentating and providing fantastic analysis of the game. People said at the time how ungracious he was at losing rubbish what a great comment it all happened in black and white 🤣🤣 fook if I had lost like that I would have walked off and smashing my cue 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The golden years ! Music, entertainment, sports, fashion and Snooker!
This match is the best world snooker final ever. The nugget built up an 8 frame lead but then in frame 9 the whole match changed the underdog came back to win an epic match 18 frames to seventeen. I was delighted for denis taylor he got revenge on davis for his defeat a year earlier in the semi final. Proves once again nice guys can win tournaments if they stick at it.
Hold your breath for 1 second every time someone in the audience coughs
I was 16 years of age. Sitting at home with my Mum and Dad watching this amazing snooker match was one of THE most memorable sporting events of the 20th Century.
Bloody hell! I need a whisky and shower! Steve Davis is my all-time favourite snooker player but let's face it, Taylor deserved this one!
great comment!
No he didn’t
@@rayfinkle2805 why?
Re Davis' last shot: in retrospect you can clearly see that he over-cut it.
I remember that night so well. A Sunday night turned into the earliest hour of Monday morning and I was sooo pumped with adrenaline that although I started work early there was NO WAY I was going to sleep prior to about two hours before getting up.
Anyone here after watching their remake?
I somehow watched this before watching the remake, then came back here to watch this again.
I am!
from White Gold... yes
yeah
Genius lol Dennis Taylor you're my new hero. Upside down glasses for the win!
I was living in London at this time and remember staying up past midnight on a Sunday and into Monday morning to watch the end of this match ... I think most of Great Britain did.
If I remember correctly Dennis Taylor won a lot of frames late to tie it at 17-17 and force the FINAL frame.
gabbax2hey77 You don't remember correctly.
The insight you provide is incredible. The story you have told will change how we look at this final forever. We can't thank you enough.
@@RB747domme He was down 8-0, 15-12, and 17-16. No, he did not remember incorrectly
Great memory of childhood this. Staying up late, adults all gripped by it
I remember watching an interview of Paul Newman, who was in UK to promote his film The Colour of Money (coincidentally a film about pool players), saying he stayed up very late to see the match to the finish even though he had a lot of engagements the next morning. Well, you me and half the country was awake for this great match! Unforgettable!
What a great era for snooker
Davis's last safety on the black was superb! His position from that last red cost him the pink and maybe more.
I wanted to tell you guys a funny story, and it's all true. I was eight at the time of the momentous match, and my lovely Mum let me stay up to watch the final, and did we enjoy it? Yes. I was also a quite bright pupil at school, and learned to read at a ridiculously early age (my Mum said 1, but I'm sure she was exaggerating. It was 2, I think.
Anyway they didn't really know what to do with me at school so, I'm not joking, they used to get me to mark the other children's English work. I like to think I was quite good at it, too (at least I could spell).
Anyway, the day after the match, we all went into school and as usual, had to write in our News books. Half the page was blank for a picture and the other half was lined for writing. Mrs Evans (who never liked me) gave me a pile of books to mark, and the first one was from Wai who's dad owned the chip shop. There was a rather badly drawn table, some dots which I presumed were balls, a rather rangy looking Steve Davis and a bloke with very big glasses. Underneath Wai had written "last night we watched the snooker final." Cool, I thought. And then I opened the next book. "Last night we watched Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor. I wish Steve had won". And again, and again. I'll never forget it. We all watched the snooker final!
*whose! D'oh! That'll teach me to get above myself
It must be said that Dennis Taylor went for a full length double on the final black of the final frame of the World Championships.
Considering he was at the absolute peak of his phenomenal powers at this time, already a triple World Champion and going for a 3rd in a row with nobody near his level of consistency, the mistakes Steve made in this frame were quite extraordinary
Actually makes you wonder doesnt it? I've seen better shots at the pub than some of Steve's in this game.
It was really late, and stressful I think
The miss on the early blue was wild.
Love the fact how he tried to pot the black at the end with the cushion risking it all!!! Not many players would do that nowdays lets face that.
I was 20 watching this , amazing. Great to see it again.
I remember that night well, the village in Ireland that I live in just erupted in applause, not to forget the party,.
I remember watching this live, first time I ever stayed up late at the age of 10 and watched history.....
Brilliant....
I watched this back in 1985, and 35 years later, I still think it's the best frame of snooker ever played.
Absolutly
Or the worst depending how you look at it. Some of the misses were horrendous yet totally riveting to watch.
Apart from the fact it had that chancer Taylor in it
,it has gone down in history as one of the best snooker matches I have ever seen I was 15 as well and watching it with dad got me really involved with the wonderful
game brilliant match
Anyone see their hands move at exactly the same time at 7:37?
How the hell do you notice things like that ?
@@leefunnell5061 Methylphenidate
What the hell are you watching man? Who notices things like that?
That’s a great observation. Both their right hands move and they both strike exactly the same pose. Don’t know how you spotted it but I must have watched it ten times now!
It is quite noticeable imo, I noticed it myself
Didnt know Alex Ferguson used to play snooker!!! 🤣🤣
ale Gonzalez before the gum addiction clearly
This was the first snooker match I remember watching!
I was 5 when I watched this with my mum, dad and older brother… Still remember my dad saying”he’s bloody done Joan” to my mum..
Dennis deserved it with that brown, blue and pink and for having the balls to go for several doubles on the black never mind coming back against the best ever at that time from 8 nil down!
They are so slow that I quit watching the match back in 1985 and just now tuned in to check if they had finished.
Don't take up comedy for a living
Edmund Power it’s more of a hobby....
John Mckinney. Yeah exactly, he said “don’t take it up for a living” ....meaning you don’t already do it for a living
MrEvansUK
I got it the first time.....
John Mckinney. Sure seemed like it pal
And what a commentator... Ted Lowe. Just the right voice for a match like this. I wonder if we'll ever see a final like this again. Final frame, final black? It might be a very long time yet.
the odds are slim, but not zero. it will happen again. we could even have a respotted black in a tie in a final frame. this black here is not the true final black.
21:13 this one of the reasons why the miss rule was introduced but it would have wrecked this atmosphere and tension of this final. Was 15 when this happened and remembered watching it with my dad - classic match by 2 classics of the game
I think Davis would have had quite a few more free points if the miss had been in place.
7:51 it went in Davis’s favour
"I'm the best this year"
I just roared with laughter. Class
Guess he knew it wouldn't last
I met Steve in HK after this match..& took a picture with him....😅
Watch Taylor's reaction to Davis's missed blue at 5:55. Dancing with his arms in seeming delight that the Nugget was actually infallible.
Yes an absolute annoying clown Dennis
Taylor was a chancer who never should’ve been world champion
I was 8 but I remember this as clear as day! I remember the late Alex Higgins win in '82 as well but that's because my mom loved Alex. Largely because he was Irish like my mom. Lol.
He didn’t consider himself Irish.
Anybody here after mcgill vs wilson decider?? I want to compare, God these 2 frames are to be remembered!
I still remember this night. I was in an Indian restaurant (Rani) in Bold Street Liverpool. I was 18 at the time. When we were leaving I asked the waiter did he know the final score. He had no idea what I was on about 😂😂 Asked a few in the street and they said it was still going on into the late night. I just thought they were joshing. I was gutted as Davis was my snooker idol. A never forgotten match that’s gone down in snooker history.
36 years ago, watched this hiding at the top of the living room stairs aged 8...pretty sure the parents knew I was there
David Vine trying to engage with Steve Davis at 41:04 was excruciating!
Ah, Davis is a great guy
@@markbailey1970 Not in that moment he wasn’t!
Haven't watched this in over thirty years but I recognised the audience member beside Denis Taylor always thought he looked like a Professor
It's good that Dennis had the glasses made with clear frames. Otherwise they might look a touch conspicuous and silly.
When Dennis chokes up after kissing the trophy... Gets me everytime
You need to get out more mate,or go and get help.😯
@@joemcdonnell2436 or is it you that needs help making a douche bag comment to strangers? Why you so angry, needledick?
Yeah like bile
interesting Steve "the ginger carrot" Davis , lovely fellow in real life , always has a tidy garden and a scrubbed doorstep , how many other players can claim that !
Was he your neighbour mate,did his wife have a well kept minge aswell
@@joemcdonnell2436 LOL...as soon as I read 'tidy garden' I thought the same thing!
I've never seen a game with so many fouls in it.........except for when i'm at the table.😂😂
Great black ball game.
Who’s the cutie on 32:58 wow
A spectacular frame of snooker completely ruined by UA-cam adverts
I’d forgotten how bad the snooker was in the early stages of this final frame, absolutely shocking, they must’ve been under so much pressure
Taylor's brown blue and pink were all staggeringly brilliant and his double on the black was so so unlucky. Having said that, this film reminds me of an amazingly bad positional shot off a blur that Davis played, at about 1.05. He wouldn't have done that in another 100 attempts, and that one shot may well have cost him the championship.
I meant 'blue' of course. That's pressure for you.
Taylor was actually lucky not to leave the black on after that double, and after his next couple of shots on the black.
the mother of all finals...and the irish once again delivering the goods
8/0 up at one point, Davis must have been gutted for a few weeks after this.
Try a few years.
313,883 views at the time of this comment.
18,500,000 viewers were glued to it live in 1985.
Epic final
Unreal memories. Sport and entertainment seemed more dramatic. The snooker, all the huge boxing bouts with Haggler, Hitman Hearns, Sugar Ray etc, the epic World Cups in 82 and 86, the Liverpool Double,...even downhill skiing was popular with Zurbruggen, Mueller etc, Wimbledon with Becker, Graf, the great Formula 1 races, all of it. And then in music you had Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, the start of HipHop etc. What a time!
I watch it many times
Indeed the best final
Ma house erupted when that black disappeared never ever wil a forget that night hated Davis back then but must admit a love the man now memories
I won't sleep watch this game😂😂😂
Steve Davis always came across as being very shy when being interviewed and not good in front of a camera. By far the greatest player of his era.
Although in this case you must say he had just lost the biggest match of the year after bottling it from 8-0 up and missing a great chance on the black to take the win, so his muted responses were quite appropriate. When you lose a match like that you want to be anywhere but talking about it.
The amount of ads in this video are ridiculous. Watching this piece of history with such an annoying frequency of ads is sad to see.