Six-time snooker world champion Steve Davis gave fellow BBC pundit John Parrott a death stare live on television after an awkward comment was made during the World Championship final.
Davis was working on screen as Jak Jones and Kyren Wilson went head-to-head in the final at The Crucible in Sheffield. Wilson stormed into a commanding 7-1 lead after the opening session. Ahead of play on Sunday evening, Davis discussed the match before fellow ex-professional Parrott made a cheeky remark.
"We know full well in long-session matches, you can get frame after frame, blocks of frames won by players," said Davis. "So, nowhere near over yet, but it's an uphill struggle and obviously I think Jak Jones would love to win this session, at the very least 5-4."
That left presenter Parrott to add in: "It has happened before, of course, in 1985." The comment was in reference to Davis losing against Dennis Taylor in the 1985 World Championship final. Davis - like Wilson - led 7-0 at the start of the final before he eventually lost 18-17 during what is renowned as the black ball final.
The 35th and deciding frame culminated in a number of shots on the deciding black ball. After both players missed it several times, Taylor potted the black to win his only world championship.
Davis appeared to be left furious by the remark and made a death stare in the direction of Parrott, who directed his head in another direction as he spoke to the camera. BBC presenter Hazel Irvine added: "That went down like a lead balloon, didn't it?"
Although the black ball moment denied Davis a fourth world championship at the time, he won three more titles to take his career total to six - the joint-third most ever behind Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan and level with Ray Reardon. Despite not winning the 1985 final, Davis did not let it disappoint him.
He previously said: "I think the best moment of my career was missing the black against Dennis Taylor. At one stage I was the strongest player in the game so I was expected to win, so those moments when everybody is excited are when you don't.
"With Dennis, that was the best and worst moment of my career because I think it just showed how greatly snooker had been appreciated by the public."
In the 2024 version, after his miserable first session, Jones pulled himself back into the match and won five of the first eight frames during the evening session. However, Wilson won the final frame to take himself into a 11-6 lead heading into Monday's action.
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