Latest results in database (All results)
| 2009 Dec 6 | 2nd | 56 | 8 min | Flauta Eating Finals | La Jolla, CA |
| 2009 Nov 8 | 1st | 50 | 10 min | Martorano's Masters Meatball Championship | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2009 Sep 27 | 2nd | 81 | 8 min | Krystal Square Off finals | Chattanooga, TN |
The website for the Stanford student newspaper has a picture of Joey Chestnut competing in a hot dog eating contest with Robbie Zimbroff, who wants to be the Stanford tree mascot.
Kenn Goodall has uploaded a painting of Joey Chestnut he did for an upcoming Nobrow Press project.
Joey Chestnut will appear on The BBQ Central Radio Show on Tuesday at 9 eastern.
ESPN's youtube channel has a video from June in which Joey Chestnut describes the contents of his refrigerator.
xtrasports1360.com has a podcast of Joey Chestnut's interview yesterday (direct mp3 link)
The facebook for Jose's La Jolla reports that Joey Chestut will compete in the flauta eating contest Sunday.
Joey Chestnut does KNBR interview on 26th birthday
(from Paul Davis email) Joey Chestnut spent a portion of his 26th birthday today doing an interview with KNBR. A 30 minute podcast of his appearance is available. Some notes from the podcast:
- Joey attributes his defeat at the 2009 Asparagus Festival to the first wave of the swine flu
- Joey says he receives $30,000 – $40,000 for competing in Nathan’s
- Joey calls Pat Bertoletti his “little brother” (Joey’s comments about Pat, Eater X, Sonya Thomas and “El Wingador” occur at the 15 minute mark of the podcast.)
- A caller asks Joey how he compares to Eddie “Bozo” Miller
The Vallejo Times Herald has an article about Joey Chestnut who was the celebrity guest at the "Make a Difference Charity Golf Tournament in Pleasanton, CA and has not decided if he will compete in the flauta eating contest in La Jolla next month.
Victor Torres reports that Joey Chestnut might do a wing eating contest at the Dublin, California Hooters tonight.
Joey Chestnut wins Martorano’s Masters Meatballs
Rich Shea reports Joey Chestnut won the Martorato’s Masters Meatballs contest in Las Vegas today and Pat Bertoletti was the runner up.
A caption on Robin Leach’s twitpic page mentions that Joey ate over 6 lbs and Sonya (place not listed) ate 5.5 lbs.
update Poker News Daily reports that Chestnut beat Bertoletti by one meatball and Phil Hellmuth was a no show.
update 2 The IFOCE facebook has full results
1) Joey Chestnut 50
2) Pat Bertoletti 49
3) Sonya Thomas 42
4) Ben Monson 38 (rookie, top 10 eater according to Sonya Thomas)
5) Eric “Badlands” 33.5
6) Rich LeFevre 33
7) Ron Koch 30
Damon Wells (rookie) 28
9) Ryan McKillop 23
10) Jason Erb 20
11) “El Toro” Jimenez 16
12) Angelica Bridges (model) 10
update #3 harrahs.com has a blog entry about the contest (from sroeben)
update #4 Daily Fiasco and PR Newswire have contest reports.
update #5 CBS has a video and Las Vegas Weekly has a gallery
Joey Chestnut w/ “Extreme Amy” today
The IFOCE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut will appear with “Extreme Amy” of Fox 5 Vegas today to promote the Martorano’s Meatballs contest. Ron Koch attempted a burger challenge on an “Extreme Amy” segment earlier this week.
update Joey Chestnut’s appearance with “Extreme Amy” is now available online. Darren Rovell, in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, bumped into Joey Chestnut earlier today.
A podcast of Joey Chestnut's appearance with two Hooters Girls on the Lamont and Tonelli show Thursday is availble (Joey segment begins around the 6 minute mark). Some pictures of Joey in the studio are available on the program's twitpic page.
Joey Chestnut has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/joeyjaws update The page is reportedly by an impostor.
The Daily Sound reports that Joey Chestnut's appearance at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse on Saturday has been cancelled due to lack of IFOCE authorization.
A video of Joey Chestnut's appearance on WDEF this afternoon is available. Joey predicts the winning total will be between 85 and 90. Kobayashi has also posted a blog entry from Chattanooga.
TheDailySound: Joey Chestnut will do a bratwurst eating exhibition at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse on October 3. In 2006, Joey Chestnut ate 31 sausages at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse.
2009 Houston kolaches thread
update #2 Full results are now available
update Rich Shea has the top 4:
1. Joey Chestnut 45
2. Pat Bertoletti 42
3. Bob Shoudt 31
4. Hall Hunt 26
The contest is now over. Joey Chestnut reportedly won with 45 kolaches.
The Houston Astros game has ended and the kolache eating contest has started.
Kinders BBQ facebook reports Joey Chestnut will compete in a two minute rib eating contest on Chronicle Live on Comcast Sports in the Bay Area.
Joey Chestnut has posted a blog entry about his feelings on the new Krystal Square Off rules.
LA Downtown News has an interview with Joey Chestnut to promote Saturday's gyoza eating contest.
Bill "Sportsguy" (non-Wingador) Simmons latest twitter update: "New competitive eating idea: moms wolf down lunches while attending to 2 unruly kids. My wife would be Joey Chestnut"
Joey Chestnut has posted an entry to his Yardbarker blog about winning Nathan's for the third year in a row. The San Jose Mercury also has an article about Joey Chestnut participating in the Tour de French Fry on Sunday.
A Joey Chestnut impostor was at a recent Orem Owlz minor league baseball game.
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