I used to travel all over the UK watching these guys play and stay in the same hotels, I got to know them all really well, late night drinking with Ronnie Paul Hunter Quinton haan and lots more, Paul and his family were always really nice to us.
If you had to put your house on picking a future world champion who had not previously won it , 99% of knowledgeable snooker fans would have picked Paul hunter. Still brings a tear to my eye every time I see a video of him. I really miss him. ( August 2020)
I was just talking to my mate about snooker the other day. He was talking about ronnies comments on players theses days not being as good. I was saying it might be another 50 years before you get a bunch of players as good as the last generation. He started mentioning the names Hendry, Ronnie ,Williams, Doherty , Higgins, Hunter. It just made me smile really that we got leashes to watch and remember!!
RIP Paul, you were an amazing snooker player and an amazing lad, you deserved to live a long and great life but it was so cruelly taken away from you way too soon, we will never forget, love from Ireland ❤️❤️🙏🙏
If there was ANY person that would have given Ronnie a true run for his money? THIS fella was him. He had the same mentality,the same attitude, the same commitment and the same tenacity as Ronnie and snooker fans all over the world have been denied some seriously Great snooker play of what might have been. RIP young man.
@@Ownz1982 Ronnie o Sullivan has proved he's top notch NOT over 1,single snooker match but consistantly time and time again over many years. THAT is what makes Ronnie stand out from the rest. Paul Hunter (imo) could have achieved the same success if he'd haved lived. (comprehendy?) Pfft
I did now that you died Paul Hunter,. I saw Ronny and your match tonight while watching old snooker videos of the 2000s. While searching for your recent videos, I learned that we lost a legend in 2005 at the age of 27. I'm so sorry young man, so sorry. Wherever you are, sleep well, champion.
As a Leeds United fan I absolutely adored the great Paul Hunter. What a player and what a guy. Surely he would have been a world champion. Paul is a loss not only to snooker but a loss to the world. RIP mate. Love ya
This video is a reminder of how precious life really is a young man taken in his prime Rip paul you was a great player a world champion no doubt he would of been
Never knew this man or ever watched snooker! This was in my recommendations! Glad it was he looks like a nice lad hope he rests in peace and his family have some comfort from good people remembering him in this way
Still sad today what you seen its what you got with paul hunter totally genuine ,charismatic , incredible competitor and very good guy , very sadly missed
A future World Champion of that there was no doubt. 12 years on and still so greatly missed and remembered. Sleep easy Paul Hunter - 'The Beckham of the Baize'...xx
A talented and gifted player taken by an illness that doesn't descriminate.greatly missed by many many fans and players alike,rest easy paul.you are not forgotten.
Wow i actully remember this guy...as a kid i saw him on TV and he instantly became one of the guys i'd pretend to be when playing snooker with my brothers "im gonna be that blond guy" So sad i never knew he past away......Mad his career could have been as inpressive as Ronnies...imagine if he was playing at this years championship....you know it would have been him and Ronnie in the final!!! Rest in peace legend.....💙✌
Considering he won the masters three times and never got his hands never got to lift the silver lady, Paul Hunter is perhaps up there along side Jimmy White as the greatest player never to win the world championship. This video breaks my heart and yet in way, warms it at the same time. He clearly loved his wife very much and he loved the game of snooker as well. RIP Paul ain't life a bitch?!
I’d say Jimmy best to have never won it, then a toss up between Hunter and Ding as next in line. For talent it’s Hunter but for ranking win’s it’s Ding. Call it joint second.
I watched probably every single match or most of his matches on tv. I thought he was an exceptional talent even next to Ronnie. Without a doubt he would’ve been a multiple world champion many would agree. So sad that this nasty disease took him from his family and the game. His memory lives on with people like myself. He will never be forgotten. A true gentleman of the game a top lad and great player
Brilliant, making such a tribute with respect a dignity. I was just thinking of Paul so I typed in his name and came across this video. Rip young man! I hope that "you're" family have gone on (although very hard) to have a good life....
rest in peace mr hunter beleve me no one will forget your name ever.not only were you a fabolous potter but also a wonderful person so the legend says.hope the angels treat you nice up there rm❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
63 dislikes ... for what ? .... who knows what goes through people’s heads these days, as unfortunately society is broken by so many things. But what I can say to endorse the 1.7k likes, is that Paul Hunter was 28 years of age when he sadly passed away. He used the gift he was given to entertain many millions on the TV. A 28 year old man, just over the 1/3 of his life’s expectancy’s, meaning he still had 2/3 yet to live. So any mistakes or hiccups he had along the way in his young life should be ignored and the greater good he did should be the defining matter. From those that really knew him said, he was fairly good guy. Shouldn’t that be enough! Be at peace young man, and may your daughter live a long prosperous life!
i don't know this lad, just click the link because of the green table of snooker, but turn out to be a video of a great guy, I suppose. the smile of a kind person, I believe. even i cried a bit, with that great song, i could also remember all the nice and great person who passed away before us.
A really beautiful young man, so much energy and drive, life can be so perverse, particularly a great loss to the snooker world. When I last remembered him, his talent was noticable, then I got distracted from snooker for a few years..... and then he was gone. From a selfish point of view, not witnessing him achieve his potential saddens me.
Everytime I watch this...it makes me cry....Paul hunter was one of the top snooker player...he was so stylish and his shots.....Ronnie is the King.......but Paul hunter was not less than Prince....
@@gibby7233 I don't really think we need comments like this on a tribute video... But, fyi he said that in 2002 and lost narrowly. I think the 17-4 and 17-6 pummelings he gave Hendry a couple of years later certainly qualify. As well as holding the triple crown record, 147 record, century record, matches won record, matched won against Hendry 23-11 with a few draws is more than enough. Have some respect and some damn sense!
Paul Hunter exhaled in his simple people's Humilty his love for his wife was special. I am from Leeds he was a brilliant player with so much natural born ability. This was one of snookers safest moments for me. I hope his late wife and family are always thinking of him.
Stood in at the very last minute at an exhibition match I went to Jimmy White couldn't attend, he looked very ill that night but still managed to impress the crowd R.I.P Paul.
Aah gorgeous tribute.love you for eternity Paul.mum & dad💞❤️Xxxxxxxx💋
Every time I watch that and listen, makes me sad. You Are Missed 😢 RIP PAUL HUNTER
Exceptionally brilliant player. BEAT Ronnie in his prime. Beautiful, handsome couple. Brought tears to my eyes. What a bitch life can be at times
:( same here.... my younger bro of same age died suddenly..... last year!
Not to mention god....right?
He was good and his death was tragic. But let’s not Kid ourselves. Ronnie is the GOAL.
@David David everyone likes to blame God, he doesn’t exist in there mind but hey if things don’t turn out let’s blame the invisible God
Brought poo to my bum
Paul was great player, player is legend and legend never die..❤👍 still alive in our heart's.
I played him in an exhibition in 2002. He made four centuries and two breaks over 85 in seven frames. Awesome player.
lucky you, he was a very talented player.
Can you call that "played"?! Hahaha yes, I am salty! What a privilege that was!
And then you woke up
I only played in one of the frames!! Missed a black on 25 and he destroyed me with an 88!!
What a snooker player, what a sportsman....can't believe its been 15 years since he passed away. Such a respected person.
Always come back to these tributes every couple of years. A man sorely missed to snooker fans everywhere.
2021 and still watching. Still miss you Paul
2020 still watching . We miss u paul . Legend
I used to travel all over the UK watching these guys play and stay in the same hotels, I got to know them all really well, late night drinking with Ronnie Paul Hunter Quinton haan and lots more, Paul and his family were always really nice to us.
Ditto
If you had to put your house on picking a future world champion who had not previously won it , 99% of knowledgeable snooker fans would have picked Paul hunter. Still brings a tear to my eye every time I see a video of him. I really miss him. ( August 2020)
I was just talking to my mate about snooker the other day. He was talking about ronnies comments on players theses days not being as good. I was saying it might be another 50 years before you get a bunch of players as good as the last generation. He started mentioning the names Hendry, Ronnie ,Williams, Doherty , Higgins, Hunter. It just made me smile really that we got leashes to watch and remember!!
Legend
RIP Paul, you were an amazing snooker player and an amazing lad, you deserved to live a long and great life but it was so cruelly taken away from you way too soon, we will never forget, love from Ireland ❤️❤️🙏🙏
If there was ANY person that would have given Ronnie a true run for his money? THIS fella was him. He had the same mentality,the same attitude, the same commitment and the same tenacity as Ronnie and snooker fans all over the world have been denied some seriously Great snooker play of what might have been. RIP young man.
Well he beat Ronnie 🤣
@@Ownz1982 Ronnie o Sullivan has proved he's top notch NOT over 1,single snooker match but consistantly time and time again over many years. THAT is what makes Ronnie stand out from the rest. Paul Hunter (imo) could have achieved the same success if he'd haved lived. (comprehendy?) Pfft
A beautiful tribute to a world class snooker player
Thank you!
Rip Paul a legend
He was always smiling, even when he was ill. RIP Paul Hunter
How did he die?
Cancer @@SimonCU
I did now that you died Paul Hunter,. I saw Ronny and your match tonight while watching old snooker videos of the 2000s.
While searching for your recent videos, I learned that we lost a legend in 2005 at the age of 27.
I'm so sorry young man, so sorry. Wherever you are, sleep well, champion.
Great video great man great wife great father and a great snooker player.rip paul greatness is never forgotten
Nye 2021 and i still look for your videos. Ill never forget your plan b either you legend
2024 still watching we miss u Paul hunter legend😢
Paul Hunter will live on in people's memories and this is what you tube is for.. God bless
As a Leeds United fan I absolutely adored the great Paul Hunter. What a player and what a guy. Surely he would have been a world champion. Paul is a loss not only to snooker but a loss to the world. RIP mate. Love ya
RIP. Such a shame his rivalry with Ronnie was ended so soon.
RIP Paul Hunter....an excellent player with great heart under pressure.
This video is a reminder of how precious life really is a young man taken in his prime
Rip paul you was a great player a world champion no doubt he would of been
He has left a lot a great memories. He was loved. Fantastic snooker player aswell⭐⭐⭐
Never knew this man or ever watched snooker!
This was in my recommendations!
Glad it was he looks like a nice lad hope he rests in peace and his family have some comfort from good people remembering him in this way
micky u used to be in Trex heard u were dead .
@@benbim540 Legends never die ✌
@@mickyfinn1737 in that case u still playing the bongos.
What a beautifully touching and emotional video. Thank you for sharing
@Robert Cramb, definitely
A very sad loss great talent a match for Ronnie o sullavan any day gone to soon future worldchampion
would of undoubtedly been one of the worlds best - if not the best. Watching him and Ronnie was spectacular
Rest in Peace Paul, magnificent snooker player & person, achieved more in his short life than most of us will in a million lifetimes.
Still sad today what you seen its what you got with paul hunter totally genuine ,charismatic , incredible competitor and very good guy , very sadly missed
I'm not really a snooker fan, but watching this, I'm getting emotional to be totally honest... Such a beautiful song in the background as well.
It's Queen.
A future World Champion of that there was no doubt. 12 years on and still so greatly missed and remembered. Sleep easy Paul Hunter - 'The Beckham of the Baize'...xx
Lovely tribute to Paul hunter, he was a great Player and would have been world champion
That smile he had just summed him up. A lovely good guy
A talented and gifted player taken by an illness that doesn't descriminate.greatly missed by many many fans and players alike,rest easy paul.you are not forgotten.
Wow i actully remember this guy...as a kid i saw him on TV and he instantly became one of the guys i'd pretend to be when playing snooker with my brothers "im gonna be that blond guy" So sad i never knew he past away......Mad his career could have been as inpressive as Ronnies...imagine if he was playing at this years championship....you know it would have been him and Ronnie in the final!!!
Rest in peace legend.....💙✌
@The one peace to all
How can you be a snooker fan if you did not realise he died?
The Masters is called the Paul Hunter trophy.🤣🤣🤣
@Craven Moorehead Don't waste your breath mate.
The guy does not even know that Paul Hunter died years ago so I doubt he knows anything about snooker.
"his career could have been as impressive as Ronnies" I seriously doubt that but he was a great talent back in the day.
2022 still watching
We will miss you Hunter
Considering he won the masters three times and never got his hands never got to lift the silver lady, Paul Hunter is perhaps up there along side Jimmy White as the greatest player never to win the world championship. This video breaks my heart and yet in way, warms it at the same time. He clearly loved his wife very much and he loved the game of snooker as well. RIP Paul ain't life a bitch?!
I’d say Jimmy best to have never won it, then a toss up between Hunter and Ding as next in line. For talent it’s Hunter but for ranking win’s it’s Ding. Call it joint second.
God bless you Paul, thanks for letting us share a part of your life sleep well
I watched probably every single match or most of his matches on tv. I thought he was an exceptional talent even next to Ronnie. Without a doubt he would’ve been a multiple world champion many would agree. So sad that this nasty disease took him from his family and the game. His memory lives on with people like myself. He will never be forgotten. A true gentleman of the game a top lad and great player
Can't believe it was back in 2006, still remember him playing like it was yesterday! Never forgotten Paul.
Never forgotten, thank you Paul, your legend still lives on to this day
how can 37 people give this amazing video a thumbs down? RIP PH
They have a swinging brick where there heart should be.
Brilliant, making such a tribute with respect a dignity. I was just thinking of Paul so I typed in his name and came across this video. Rip young man! I hope that "you're" family have gone on (although very hard) to have a good life....
very nice tribute and picture with the baby I checked my eyes for tears
*PH, You Absolute Legend*
I LOVE THAT SONG....RIP PAUL HUNTER, (damn he was good to watch when he was here)
made me cry, great player and she is gorgeous, lovely couple very sad though
2023 and still legend...RIP GOLDEN BOY
only 28 years old. rip young man, you will never be forgotten,a pleasure to watch play, rip champ!
What a track to remember somebody by. RIP Paul Hunter.
One of the all time greats,never forgotten
Fantastic talent such a loss and so young why was he taken from us always remembered PAUL R.I.P❤
Yea loved him such a great player and champion 🏆 and I have his snooker cue
@@gerardburns8257 WOW! treasure it
I cry, whenever I see this video...he was a legend for me...club of 27 years :'(
Still hits hard......RIP Paul!
I still miss watching this guy play. 😢
rest in peace mr hunter beleve me no one will forget your name ever.not only were you a fabolous potter but also a wonderful person so the legend says.hope the angels treat you nice up there rm❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
Just heard his name mentioned in this years masters. Never forgotten.
63 dislikes ... for what ? .... who knows what goes through people’s heads these days, as unfortunately society is broken by so many things. But what I can say to endorse the 1.7k likes, is that Paul Hunter was 28 years of age when he sadly passed away. He used the gift he was given to entertain many millions on the TV.
A 28 year old man, just over the 1/3 of his life’s expectancy’s, meaning he still had 2/3 yet to live. So any mistakes or hiccups he had along the way in his young life should be ignored and the greater good he did should be the defining matter.
From those that really knew him said, he was fairly good guy. Shouldn’t that be enough!
Be at peace young man, and may your daughter live a long prosperous life!
Great memories of your talent Paul. Legends last forever.
Fantastic to watch....eternally missed....adored this player.
made me cry too. great player and a great man.
i don't know this lad, just click the link because of the green table of snooker, but turn out to be a video of a great guy, I suppose.
the smile of a kind person, I believe.
even i cried a bit, with that great song, i could also remember all the nice and great person who passed away before us.
Rip Paul you'd of won everything in the game multiple times. Sad watching this I was only 22 when you passed. Fly high mate
Lovely, lovely boy. Still missed Whom the gods love!!!!
.....ooha, ever, and ever a dream....a great man, a fighter..😯😢😢
A really beautiful young man, so much energy and drive, life can be so perverse, particularly a great loss to the snooker world.
When I last remembered him, his talent was noticable, then I got distracted from snooker for a few years..... and then he was gone.
From a selfish point of view, not witnessing him achieve his potential saddens me.
PAUL HUNTER!Как жаль.что прожил так мало этот талантливый человек!
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Everytime I watch this...it makes me cry....Paul hunter was one of the top snooker player...he was so stylish and his shots.....Ronnie is the King.......but Paul hunter was not less than Prince....
Steven hendry is king o'sulivan said he would send him home to scotland, never did
me too dude
@@gibby7233 I don't really think we need comments like this on a tribute video...
But, fyi he said that in 2002 and lost narrowly. I think the 17-4 and 17-6 pummelings he gave Hendry a couple of years later certainly qualify. As well as holding the triple crown record, 147 record, century record, matches won record, matched won against Hendry 23-11 with a few draws is more than enough.
Have some respect and some damn sense!
Paul Hunter exhaled in his simple people's Humilty his love for his wife was special. I am from Leeds he was a brilliant player with so much natural born ability. This was one of snookers safest moments for me. I hope his late wife and family are always thinking of him.
Fabulous player, f hart breaking
Khalid Zaman I hope he survives this cancer battle
Gone but not forgotten God only takes the best
Happy Birthday in heaven 🙏🙏
Out standing snooker player you are truly missed keep potting buddy God Bless Sadly missed ❤️
Al tell you what snooker misses Paul hunter what a cracking player and with a smile on his face till the end 😪😪😪😪
Fantastic, amazing game! Master! We will play a frame in another life.
A awesome tribute to a awesome player still missed
Beautiful tribute indeed! RIP 💮
Would’ve been a world champion for sure. So sad for such a talented lad to be taken so young.R.I.P.
Was für ein Talent er wahr Ruhe in Frieden Paul Hunter.
No respect the ppl putting a thumbs down to tribute to a great player taken to early!
what a brilliant player he was! rest in peace legend
He would've been number 1 such a good player miss you PAUL
Nice to here a Queen song over this
I'm glad you like it. I'm big Queen fan :)
Heaven 1 Snooker 0
Great great loss for snooker world.... will u miss always my lagend ......🥺
a great player and a lovely guy will always be remembered honoured to own something of his
When I see Ronnie with that smile, happy and clapping his hands after losing that final, I can imagine how good player and person Paul was 😢
We didn't get to see him play in this era vs Ronnie, Judd, Williams etc.
What a beautiful man, RIP🐾🌹
Stood in at the very last minute at an exhibition match I went to Jimmy White couldn't attend, he looked very ill that night but still managed to impress the crowd R.I.P Paul.
Great player, sadly missed and destined for dominance in my opinion. Only a song written for Freddie does Justice. R.I.P
Tony parker.its trivial.but brian may wrote this song.it was after freddies death.but paul hunter.such a talent r.i.p
Great player, and even more greatly missed, much love
What a legend he would have been a world champion for sure RIP Paul
One of the greatest player ever
I just found out about him today in a video. I raise my glass to you!
So sad. Actually brought me to tears. RIP Paul 🙏
What a lovely person
Miss,You Paul !❤ ❤ 😊
Paul hunter is one of my favourite player..
Met Paul's wife in Killkenny in Ireland at
_'Paul Hunter Trophy'_ years ago, lovely Lady..
Damn shame Paul's gone.
Brilliant snooker player god bless