Latest results in database (All results)
| 2012 May 19 | 2nd | 30 | 10 min | Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier - men | Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2012 Apr 14 | 4th | 60 | 6 min | The Isle Waterloo World Cupcake Eating Championship | Waterloo, IA |
| 2012 Mar 17 | 5th | 9.25 | 10 min | TooJay's World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship - professionals | Palm Beach Gardens, FL |
Eric "Badlands" Booker new video Vibe with Me is available on youtube. The video was directed by Pat Bertoletti and opens with a segment of Paul Barlow's, "Mad as Hell". Tim "Gravy" Brown also appears.
Cameron McKirdy produced a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker completing the five pound "Burritozilla" at Iguana's in San Jose in 5:15 before last year's Asparagus Festival contest. update Booker also produced a commercial for his new CD, Surf & Stillwell that will be released July 4.
Micah "Wing Kong" Collins directed a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker performing I Eat Em Up at the TooJay's corned beef sandwich contest in West Palm Beach, FL.
KSO blog interviews Badlands Booker
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with Eric “Badlands” Booker, who will compete in the Birmingham qualifier on Saturday. “Humble” Bob Shoudt will compete in the Atlanta qualifier on Sunday and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston, Kevin Ross and Paul Barlow will compete in unspecified qualifiers this weekend.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started an online store selling his CDs and T-shirts at http://hungryandfocusedstore.bigcartel.com/
Second Avenue Sagas has a blog entry about Eric "Badlands" Booker, the author's favorite subway conductor.
Some post-contest articles on the 2009 Nathan's finalists: Pat Bertoletti (Chicago Tribune | Examiner), Badlands Booker, "Buffalo" Jim Reeves, Marco "Mongo" Marquez (Liz Kellermeyer interview | Pueblo Chieftain)
Badlands Booker reports that his fifth CD, Extended Play is available on his myspace page.
Queens Courier has an article about Eric "Badlands" Booker, who will perform before the Nathan's finals.
Cameron "Consumption" McKirdy has uploaded his second video from his trip to Northern California with footage of Badlands Booker attempting the Burritozilla and the challenge pizza at Pizza Party.
Badlands Booker provided the voice for the walrus in the Save the Earth cartoon for "Schoolhouse Rock! Earth"
Fox Sports Science CE episode debuts tonight
A viewer of tonight’s episode of Fox Sports Science reports that a competitive eater (probably “Furious” Pete) ate 20 meatballs in 2 minutes. The episode, titled Busted Guts will be rerun several times over the upcoming week.
update Furious Pete has uploaded a clip from the show.
In more televised competitive meatball eating news, Badlands Bookers twitter reports he recorded a program for Swedish TV and set a meatball record.
Badlands Booker's twitter reports that the episode of Wife Swap he appeared in will be rerun tomorrow at 4 pm on Lifetime.
Dave “US Male” Goldstein wins crawfish
6ABC.com has an article and video from today’s crawfish eating contest at the Showboat Mardi Gras Casino in Atlantic City which reports that Dave “US Male” Goldstein was the unexpected winner of the contest with a total of 4.99 lbs. in 12 minutes. Sonya “The Black Widow” was second.
JustATasteByKellyAnn has a slide show of a training session Eric “Badlands” Booker did for the contest and will have an upcoming article.
update PressOfAtlanticCity has the top five:
1. Dave “US Male Goldstein”, 4.99 lbs.
2. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, 4.14 lbs.
3. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.88 lbs.
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 2.83 lbs.
5. Crazy Legs Conti 2.44 lbs.
update #2 a picture of the official scoresheet has been provided (see above) and Wild Bill Myers has entered the original results into the database.
Juliet Lee has updated her writenow page with a crawfish contest report which mentions that the post contest weight of her crawfish pans were higher than the original pre contest weight
update #3 NBC40 has a video clip (from US Male)
Nathan’s Famous clip on “Holiday Foods”
The segment from Holiday Foods about the Fourth of July hot dog eating contest held at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island can be viewed on the History Channel’s website. The clip contains a short contest between Eric “Badlands” Booker and Famous Fat Dave which Ryan Nerz provides commentary for.
Badlands Booker has uploaded a TV Track of "The Sweet Science of CE" to youtube.
Badlands Booker Wife Swap rerun Jan 27
Badlands Booker’s myspace says that the episode of Wife Swap in which Regina Booker and female boxer Jennifer Alcorn swapped families will be rerun on Tuesday January 27 at 5 pm eastern on Lifetime.
Link Buffet: January 10, 2009
- (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
- Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
- Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
- Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
- Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
- Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
- Wing eating contest in Beijing
- Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email
“Best of H & F” now available for purchase
Badlands Booker’s new CD, Entrees & Leftovers, the Best of Hungry & Focused is now available for purchase via paypal (click on the B above iTunes digital downloads) on Booker’s myspace page.
Best of Badlands Booker Jan 1 2009
A greatest hits CD containing high points from the first four “Hungry & Focused” albums along with three new songs from the upcoming album “Extended Play” will be released on New Years day. A promo clip is available on youtube. The album can be purchased on Booker’s myspace page and the store at majorleagueeating.com
Badlands Booker mini-documentary on youtube
A mini-documentary about Eric “Badlands” Booker produced by Richard Trammell for an NYU documentary class has been uploaded to youtube. Badlands talks about returning to competitive eating after a two year hiatus and also displays his collection of trophies.
Link Buffet: October 9, 2008
- Joey Chestnut to appear at Edmonton Oil Kings minor league hockey game on Friday
- Badlands Booker to perform “Mamma Mia” rap before Famous Famiglia pizza contest
- Hall Hunt’s Krystal performance mentioned in jacksonville.com
- Big Texan Steak Ranch to appear on the Travel Channel in December
- Wichita State professor has won a local jalapeno eating contest five times
Link Buffet: September 12, 2008
- Erik Denmark will attempt to break the salmon eating record on the radio today
- Liz K has a baby boy
- Badlands Booker’s twitter announces the Krystal Square Off rap
- Erik Denmark notices that a caption of a picture of Barack Obama reports he was watching the Nathan’s finals
- Interview of Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti at the gyoza contest
Badlands Booker at “Binge Olympiad”
(From Cole Wimpee) BroadwayWorld.com reports that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear at the Binge Olympiad which will be held at the Wings Theater in the West Village. Booker’s myspace calendar says he will appear at the August 15 and August 23 shows. Eating contests will be held during the festival, but dates and foods are not listed.
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