BGR Burger joint is holding a 20 pound burger eating challenge at tonight’s Miami Heat-Washington Wizards game. The challenger might be Brad Sciullo.

update The burger was finished during the fourth quarter of the game and there was reportedly a lot of debris under the table.

update Dec 20 NBCWashington has a short article and the Wizards’ facebook page has some pictures: start | midway | near end.

Brad Sciullo on The Colbert Report last year about his completion of a 15+ pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub Part 1 | Part 2.

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A new official web site for the Wing Bowl has been set up at http://wingbowl.cbslocal.com/events/2010/12/ The calendar page announces that tickets will go on sale on December 14 and that Brad Sciullo will attempt to qualify by eating 3 pounds of calamari in 2 minutes on Monday. Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Brian Subich are scheduled to attempt their stunts on Tuesday. 5 Wing-Off qualifiers are scheduled for January 2011. Wing Bowl founder Al Morganti says the total purse will be over $100,000 and the grand prize will be $20,000 cash.

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Tim Cain has emailed the following results of the Sloppy Joe Showdown held at Downey’s House Saturday. The contest was 8 minutes with picnic style rules:

1st Brad Sciullo 29 sandwiches (7 1/4 lbs)
2nd Bob Kuhns 28 3/4 sandwiches ( 7 lbs.)
3rd Ryan DeCaro 16 sandwiches (4 lbs.)

The blog for Downey’s House has some pictures

update July 28 ObiWingKenobi has uploaded a video

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The Herald Standard has an article about “Rock the Tot” national champion Brad Sciullo, who will compete in a pizza eating contest reportedly awarding $5,000 at Tony Baloney’s in Atlantic City tomorrow. Brad credits his tater tot victory to his training for a previous pierogi contest and says he has been eating five pounds of pizza a day to prepare for tomorrow’s contest.

update The Pitttsburgh Channel has a video and article about Brad Sciullo.

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The Herald Standard reports that Brad Sciullo won the pierogi-eating contest at the Men’s Culinary Classic at the Washington County Fairgrounds by eating 58 pierogis in 3 minutes. Some more facts about Sciullo from the article:

• He says he almost died and had a temperature of 104 after eating the 15+ pound Denny’s Belly Buster burger
• He claims to have won the world milk drinking competition by drinking a gallon of milk in 22 seconds
• His next contest will take place Thursday at the finals of the tofu wing eating contest at the Double Wide Grill.

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Here is a quick recap of the highlights of Brad Sciullo’s competitive eating career for newcomers to this web site:

• 2007 Competes in 6 IFOCE contests in 2007. Sciullo’s highest finish is runner-up in a Nathan’s qualfier.
• February 2008 Competes in Wing Bowl 16 and is in second place halfway through the contest (ahead of Pat Bertoletti and behind Joey Chestnut), but is disqualified for “snotting a wing”.
• March 2008 Announces retirement from competitive eating, no reason provided.
• July 2008 Competes in a non-IFOCE meatball eating contest in suburban Chicago under the name Eric “The Herald” Durst and finishes in 8th place.
• August 2008 Returns to IFOCE competition at the Buffalo Wing Festival. While in Buffalo, Sciullo records a video disparaging the victor of the meatball contest, Furious “Pete” Czerwinski, and AICE, the organization which sanctioned the competition.
• September 2008 Wins the cannoli eating contest at the Festival of San Gennaro in New York City. Footage from the contest appears in an ESPN E:60 segment about the IFOCE in which Sciullo’s passion for competitive eating impresses reporter Jeremy Schaap.
• October 2008 Becomes the first person to complete the 15-20 pound Belly Buster burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub. Sciullo is not listed in the new IFOCE rankings for October 2008, which probably indicates he has been banned for doing an eating challenge which was not sanctioned by the IFOCE.
• December 2008 Completes the 10-11 pound burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in 2 hours and 23 minutes, breaking the 2005 record of 2:54 jointly held by Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss. Sciullo’s feat will appear in a Travel Channel program called Extreme Restaurants
• April 2009 Finishes fourth in the Wing Madness contest in Pittsburgh.
• October 2009 Sciullo’s completion of the Belly Buster Burger is the subject of 2 segments on The Colbert Report Part 1 | Part 2

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The second part of Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 15+ pound Belly Buster Burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report is now available on the program’s website. The segment closes with Sciullo expressing his desire to eat a live shark and Colbert responding “I think we’re going to need a bigger throat”.

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The website for the Colbert Report has a video clip from last night’s episode about Brad Sciullo’s attempt at the 20+ pound Belly Bruiser burger at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. The second part of Brad Sciullo’s appearance will probably be televised on Monday. Colbert gives Sciullo the “Martin Burger King” nickname. No mention was made of Brad Sciullo’s ejection from the IFOCE.

George Wendt, who has a burger challenge named after his Cheers character, was an in studio guest.

Related Links

• Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub home page
• Mouthpiece Sports interviews Brad Sciullo
• PittsburghLive article about Sciullo completing the Belly Bruiser.
• Kate Stelnick (Tony Danza show appearance) and Lori Weiss (eyewitness blog entry) along with Brad Sciullo are the only other people to appear on the Wall of Fame for Denny’s 10-11 pound Ye Olde 96er burger.
• ESPN E:60 competitive eating clip starring Brad Sciullo
• Stephen Colbert segment about Don “Moses” Lerman from a 2001 episode of the Daily Show.

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BeautifulBrian.com’s Bits & Pieces reports that Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo has been training “Big” Brian Subich, who will compete in Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier in Charlotte. Brad Sciullo reportedly ate 38 hot dogs in a training session and also completed Tiny’s burger challenge at the Niner Diner which includes 5 pounds of fries. When the UEPa visited the Niner Diner in 2007, the only challenge finisher was an unnamed sub 100 pound woman according to the restaurant’s owner.

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DennysBeerBarrelPub.com reports that Brad Sciullo broke the record for the “Ye Olde 96er” burger by completing the 11 pound sandwich in 2 hours and 23 minutes. The previous record of 2:54 was set in 2005 by Kate Stelnick and tied later that year by Lori Weiss. Brad’s feat was recorded by the Travel Channel.

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The blog for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that the Travel Channel will be recording at that restaurant on Thursday. The program is not mentioned, but it might be for another episode of Man vs. Food.

The new poll asks if you think Brad Sciullo completed the giant Belly Bruiser burger at Denny’s two months ago. This picture is only documenation of the Belly Bruiser at an intermediate stage of completion I have seen. Kate Stelnick has several pictures documenting her attempt at the Olde 96er burger and Lori Weiss had an eyewitness report for her challenge.

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• Report on the Pittsburgh cupcake eating contest won by Pete Maurizio by his judge (from CupcakesTakeTheCake) An “IFCE” representative was present and announced the rules
• Video from 2005 Golden Palace turkey eating contest won by Sonya Thomas
• NC State and Wilkes University wing eating contests tonight
• “A Christmas Story” “Mommy’s Little Piggy” Eating Contest
  Hammond, Indiana Dec 6
• A blog about Competitive Eating Training
• Column about Brad Sciullo finishing the Belly Bruiser

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