{"id":426891,"date":"2026-05-01T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:01:07","slug":"michael-van-gerwen-punched-in-face-during-bar-attack-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426891\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael van Gerwen punched in face during bar attack in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That man had clearly had too much to drink and it felt to me like his anger came out of nowhere,&#8221; Van Gerwen, 37, told Dutch sport news website <a href=\"https:\/\/sportnieuws.nl\/darts\/nieuws\/michael-van-gerwen-krijgt-klap-in-gezicht-dader-betuigt-spijt-dat-was-een-automatische-schrikreactie-2026043012102829164\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportnieuws.nl, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just as he seemed to be heading for the exit, he suddenly lashed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That man clearly knows he was in the wrong because he apologised via Instagram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Gerwen, who has decided not to press charges against the person responsible, said of his reaction to the incident: &#8220;Of course, it&#8217;s not right for me to go after him but that was an automatic reaction of shock.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident occurred before Van Gerwen was back in Premier League action in Aberdeen on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Humphries beat the Dutchman 6-3 in the pair&#8217;s quarter-final clash in Scotland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the greatest players in darts history, Van Gerwen was ranked world number one between 2014 and 2021, during which period he won the Masters five times in a row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 48 majors singles to his name, Van Gerwen is ranked second in the PDC&#8217;s all-time list behind England&#8217;s Phil Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;That man had clearly had too much to drink and it felt to me like his anger came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-426891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}