Overview
- Video showed the darts star speaking with two people in a bar when a man stepped in and struck him in the face during King’s Night in Den Bosch.
- Security pulled the attacker away as van Gerwen briefly ran after him, which he later called a shock reaction.
- Van Gerwen said the man had been drinking and that the punch came out of nowhere.
- His agency, MODUS Sports, said he did not provoke the clash and called the episode a private matter.
- Van Gerwen returned to Premier League Darts days later and fell 3–6 to Luke Humphries in the quarterfinals.