With an unprecedented 16 world championships to his name, it's that rarest of things in sport, an undisputed fact, that the 55-year-old is the greatest player the game has ever known and as though to prove that very point on Friday night, the first dart Taylor throws in competition in Hong Kong does exactly what he wants it to do, of course - it hits bullseye.
Expect the man's mission here over this past weekend to do the same thing. Hit its mark.
Taylor has been here for the Hong Kong Darts Masters, a test event to see whether we are ready to next year host a leg of the Professional Darts Corporation's World Series of Darts, and judging by the reaction of the 2,000 or so packed into a marquee under the Observation Wheel on each of Friday and Saturday nights, the answer is a resounding yes.
Taylor, for one, is convinced of the fact. "The crowd here has been absolutely second to none," says Taylor. "The crowd here know all about the game, they love it, and we've loved coming here."
The driving forces behind the event have been Hong Kong's Ironmonger group and the London-based One Events and they brought greats of the game to town.
Alongside The Power, as Taylor is commonly known, we've witnessed five-time world champ Raymond "Barney" Van Barneveld lighting up the board.
The Power and Van Barneveld battled it out in the final with the latter winning the event 11-4. Having seen the success of the World Series of Darts as it has this year sold out venues in Dubai, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, the managing director of One Events, Craig Mather, says this Masters event has shown the way forward.
"The crowd makes darts real," said Mather. "What we've wanted here is for people to get bitten by the bug."
Local players feel exactly the same way and joining the World Series would be a godsend for the sport here. Although there are thousands of darts players across the city, the sport only really hit the headlines in June when Royden Lam and Scott Mackenzie stormed into the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Frankfurt, leaving the likes of seventh-seeded Wales and the 10th-seeded Irish in their wake.
"It's been a thrill for local players to be part of this event and the dream for all of us is to be part of the World Series," said Lam.
The man known as "The Wolf" had his followers with him all weekend, sporting shirts that declared they were part of "Royden's Wolf Pack", wearing wolf head hats and fixing white glasses to their faces in honour of their idol's trademark eyewear.
On Friday, Lam had his colours lowered by 2012 world championship finalist Andy "The Hammer" Hamilton, but the Pack's support for their hero never wavered.
"We're people who are passionate about darts and Royden is the pride of Hong Kong," said pack leader Mathew Leeks, a 33-year-old accountant.
"This has been unbelievable and there are people like us all over this city who will tell you this sport is only going to get bigger here."
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Hong Kong hits bullseye: Taylor
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