Exclusive interview where Ronnie O’Sullivan discloses real reason for going on “strike”

Ronnie O’Sullivan has claimed that he is going ‘on strike’ from 147 breaks over the issue of prize money. The 48-year-old said that snooker chiefs should pay more for the achievement. O’Sullivan previously refused to complete a 147 at the Welsh Open over the issue. O’Sullivan has claimed that he is going ‘on strike’ from 147 breaks until

Last week, O’Sullivan apologized to fans subsequent to affirming that he wouldn’t take part in the Welsh Open, which started in Llandudno on Monday.

Rather than contending in the opposition, O’Sullivan picked to take on a punditry job for Eurosport, as Gary Wilson hit the 199th 147 break throughout the entire existence of the game.

After the episode, as per The Sun, O’Sullivan was gotten some information about his record of crushing 147s in the game, to which he said: ‘ I figure one more five or six, yet I protested quite some time in the past.’

The 48-year-old – who has hit 15 maximums during his exciting profession – then, at that point, recommended that snooker bosses ought to ‘begin knocking up the award cash’.

When asked if he would go for 147s again if the reward was £147,000, he responded in the typical blunt manner, “‘ Yeah’.

During his noteworthy profession, O’Sullivan has gotten a stunning £13.9million in prize rewards. In 2023-24 alone, he guaranteed £876,000 in competition profit.

Last year, at the World Snooker Title the award cash for a greatest break was £40,000.

Back in 2016, O’Sullivan wouldn’t finish a 147 at the Welsh Open in the wake of finding his award would have been ‘just’ £10,000.

O’Sullivan was driving Barry Squeezes 3-1 and had scored only 40 in the fifth casing when he asked the official what he would win were he to score 147.

Having been told, he proceeded with the red-dark grouping until he decided to pot the pink after the penultimate red.

O’Sullivan then got the rest free from the table for a break of 146 as he finished off the match to arrive at the second round in Cardiff.

He stated, I might have on the dark and perhaps made a 147.

‘I realized it was 10 thousand and I recently felt that is altogether too modest truly. It’s such a huge accomplishment to create a maxi, and if they’re going to pay us 10 grand, I think it’s worth more.

‘When the award goes up a little, I’ll go for the 147. A 146 is comparable’.

Back in 2016, O’Sullivan would not finish a 147 at the Welsh Open subsequent to finding his award would have been ‘just’ £10,000
Back in 2016, O’Sullivan wouldn’t finish a 147 at the Welsh Open subsequent to finding his award would have been ‘just’ £10,000
In the mean time, in 2010, O’Sullivan would not pot the last dark in the last edge of his match at the World Open in Glasgow when he was informed there was no reward prize.

To be eligible for the £4,000 top break prize, he needed to be persuaded by referee Jan Verhaas to pot the final ball.

O’Sullivan said: ‘ I won’t pot the dark on the grounds that to make 147 and not actually get a decent reward was a piece frustrating in light of the fact that they are enchanted minutes and they merit mystical rewards.

‘In any case, the ref played a fit of remorse on me and expressed ‘Come on, do it for your fans’. What’s more, I thought, “Alright, in light of the fact that I haven’t got long to play at any rate, so I should go out on a high”.’