# Meet the Welsh teenager hoping to beat Littler

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meet-the-welsh-teenager-hoping-to-beat-littler/
- Published: 2026-10-29T05:29:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T08:05:20+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Sport (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/articles/cmzxlrwn27eyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Art, Culture, Sport

## Key points

- A 14-year-old from Wrexham will challenge Luke Littler at darts.
- The first to win one leg of 501 gets £501,000.
- Cooper-Johnson hopes to start an undertaker business.

## Summary

Fourteen-year-old Makinley Cooper-Johnson from Wrexham is among the contestants hoping to beat reigning world champion Luke Littler in a televised darts challenge. He says he believes he has a chance, and hopes to use any prize money to help his brother and start an undertaker business.

Cooper-Johnson is one of 24 people selected for Netflix’s Beat Luke Littler, where the first contestant to win a single leg of 501 against Littler can claim £501,000. He took up darts three years ago and earned a place after auditions judged by, among others, Phil Taylor, who later gave him personal tips. His family will watch him compete at Manchester Central Convention Complex.

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