Darts sensation Luke Littler has taken a light-hearted swipe at Eddie and Barry Hearn over the date of the Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua fight.
The heavyweight contest, which will take place in Cardiff on Dec. 11, clashes with the opening night of the World Darts Championships, which Littler has won the last two years.
Matchroom -- which is overseen by president Barry Hearn and his son, Eddie, the chair of the company -- runs the Professional Darts Corporation. The World Championship, which takes place over December and January, is the sport's flagship event.
Littler, 19, took to social media on Thursday after the Fury, Joshua fight was announced, taking aim at the Hearns.
"A message to the [Hearns] what is this?" Littler wrote.
"Opening night of the world championship (world champion plays on the opening night 11th [December] and you put one of the biggest fights in Britain on the same night, you had one job."
Littler later said that he was just having fun.
"Why is everyone so sensitive? It is literally a J.O.K.E. Come on guys," a second post from the double world champion said.
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While Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are involved with the fight as Joshua's promoter, Saudi Arabian powerbroker Turki Alalshikh and Ring Magazine, in partnership with Zuffa Boxing's Dana White, are promoters of the overall event, a press release confirmed on Thursday.
The main event in Cardiff is expected to take place after midnight, local time.
Littler won his first world title in 2025 before defending it earlier this year.
