Steve Davis OBE

Steve Davis is a retired professional snooker player who during his career, won a total of 28 ranking and 73 professional tournaments. That's 73 wins from 99 finals!

Steve dominated professional snooker in the 1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, won six world titles, and held the world number one ranking for seven consecutive seasons.

Steve was the first player to make a ratified maximum break in a major tournament who had a break of 147 against John Spencer in the Lada Classic at Oldham, Greater Manchester on 11 Jan 1982.

In 1988, Steve became the first and to date, only snooker player to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Outside of snooker, Steve has completed in nine-ball pool tournaments, which included representing Europe in the Mosconi Cup.

A keen chess and poker player, Steve served as president of the British Chess Federation between 1996 and 2001 and competed in several televised poker tournaments.

A keen fan of progressive rock, Steve is now a dedicated radio broadcaster, club DJ and musician.

Steve Davis' dry sense of humour and hilarious anecdotes make him a excellent choice for any sporting dinner or corporate function as an entertaining after dinner speaker.

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