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| 2011 Jul 9 | 1st | ? | ? | Bud Light Wing Challenge | North Wildwood, NJ |
| 2011 May 14 | 1st | 30 | 40 min | Pizza Slaughter Fest | Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2011 Feb 4 | 1st | 255 | 30 min | Wing Bowl 19 | Philadelphia, PA |
6ABC has a video about the training techniques of "Notorious" Bob Shoudt and "Super" Jon Squibb. Bob Shoudt says he sees a sports psychologist 7 days a week and makes over $100,000 from competitive eating in a good year. update In a June FoodRepublic interview, Crazy Legs Conti said the second best-paid MLE eater after Joey Chestnut made $40,000.
NJ.com has an article about Wing Bowl 20 preparations for Jon Squibb and Dave "US Male" Goldstein.
CBS Philly has a preview of the Wing Bowl focusing on Takeru Kobayashi, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and Jon Squibb describing the three "in tremendous physical shape, like highly tuned athletes". The falsehood that Kobayashi has never competed in a wing eating contest is repeated.
Will Millender reports that a team consisting of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Jon Squibb and Dave Brunelli won $2,500 at a wing eating contest for three person teams at the New Jersey State Barbecue Championship in Wildwood, NJ today.
Jon Squibb announces that he will appear in a documentary about competitive eating.
Jon Squibb threepeats Wing Bowl with new record
Wing Bowl 19 top 5 (official scorecard picture)
1) 255 Jon Squibb, breaks Joey Chesnut’s 2008 record of 241
2) 254 Bill “El Wingador” Simmons
3T) 211 “Not Rich” Rich Razzi, third top 5 finish (also 2009 & 2010)
3T) 211 Dave “US Male” Goldstein, third top 5 finish (also 2007 & 2008)
5) 195 “Furious” Pete Czerwinski, early leader
update Feb 9 12:03
- Philadelphia City Paper review
- Philly2Night gallery
- University of Pennsylvania student paper article, gallery & video
- On The Bandwagon blog entry and gallery
- The Waster gallery
- BFvsGF video
- Off the Bench blog entry Part 2
- Phils Fever gallery
- Furious Pete gallery
- BeautifulBrian.com has commentary about Brad Sciullo’s no-show and other Wing Bowl topics
update Feb 5 12:21
- Courier Post article with three gallerys
- The Trentonian praises El Wingador and has a list of 10 crazy things
- MyPHL17 has 6 galleries
- Philly.com article incorrectly claiming that Kobayashi has never competed in an eating contest with food containing bones
- NBC Philadelphia has an article & video
- The Patch on El Wingador & John “The Bulldog” DelVechio
- Philadelphia Weekly produced a video
- Yahoo News has a gallery
- AOL Weird News has an article
- Crossing Broad has a gallery (The DeLorean is supposed to be a time machine bringing back Phillies world series trophies from the future)
- Off the Bench blog entry about Wing Bowl 19
- Video of Jon Squibb
- Video and gallery of Dave “US Male” Goldstein’s entourage (a picture of his “IFOCE Contract” banner)
- Video of “Furious” Pete Czerwinski expressing his dislike of Brad Sciullo at the weigh-in (via crawfish)
- Picture of Takeru Kobayashi & Ron Jeremy, two genetic anomalies
- A picture of the top 5 scorecard for Wing Bowl 19 can be viewed after the jump
update Feb 4 10:44
- http://wingbowl.cbslocal.com/ has galleries and videos
- Philly.com also has galleries and videos
Courier Post has all the announced results - WPBI has a gallery
- MyFoxPhilly has a gallery and a clip of Takeru Kobayashi & Ron Jeremy on Good Day
- NBCPhiladelphia gallery
- The 700 Level has a flickr gallery
- A picture of the winning “Mound Rushmore” float
- Dave “US Male” Goldstein is still listed at #19 in the IFOCE rankings, we will see how long he remains and who moves into #50 (via comment)
9:16 WPVI has a video of Kobayashi’s cheesesteak exhibition
The rest of the liveblog can be viewed after the jump
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Jon Squibb produced a video about his quest to threepeat the Wing Bowl next month.
Jon Squibb has started at twitter page at http://twitter.com/jonsupersquibb
JerseyMan Magazine has an article about Garden State "Food Pounders" (starting page 38) featuring Jon Squibb, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, Dave "US Male" Goldstein and Elliot Maruffi-Cowley (Dale Boone makes a cameo). (via Jon Squibb facebook).
Defending Wing Bowl champion Jonathan "Super" Squibb has started a facebook fan page with pictures and videos of his eating challenges and contests including a video of his Wing Bowl 17 qualification stunt (from Brad Vincent)
Jon Squibb, a Rutgers alumnus, won Saturday's Rutgers Wing Bowl by eating 29 wings in 2 minutes.
Will Millender has the top 3 in today's Richmond Wing Bowl: 1) Jon Squibb 2) Joe Menchetti 3) Joel Podelsky
The facebook for Paventi's Pizzeria in Charlotte reports that Jon Squibb completed their 32 inch pizza last week with a time of 34 minutes and was awarded $500. Dale Boone was the only person to previously defeat the challenge (time 42 minutes).
Jon Squibb wins Pizza Slaughter Fest
update May 17 The Tony Boloney’s facebook has a gallery and nnicc has some videos.
update The Press of Atlantic City has a contest report. Jon Squibb won the contest by eating 27 slices in an hour. Tom Davis and Dale Boone comprised the rest of the top 3. Brad Sciullo did not compete.
NBC40 has an article and video about the “Pizza Slaughter Fest” contest taking place this afternoon at Tony Boloney’s in Atlantic City.
A youtube video about the contest is also available.
A web site for the May 15 pizza contest at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City has been set up at www.pizzaslaughterfest.com Jon Squibb and Brad Sciullo are listed as expected entrants.
Registration opens today for the May 15 "Pizza Slaugher Fest" at Tony Boloney's in Atlantic City. Entrants will have to eat a slice of pizza from all 30 pizzas on the menu. Jon Squibb is expected to compete.
Jon Squibb misses Wing Bowl record by 3 wings
Wing Bowl 18 Final 5
1 238 Jon Squibb, 3 off Joey Chestnut’s Wing Bowl record
2 145 Not Rich, 2nd runner-up in a row
3 138 Cheesecake Beefcake
4 132 Hot Pockets
DQ Lights Out, reversed between second & final round
Other second round qualifiers and their first round amounts:
Tiger Wing 98 wings
Farmer Bob 85 wings
Obi Wing & Big Bambino 81 wings
Snack Jack & Freak of Nature, 80 wings
update #4 Feb 11 Serious Eats report | Daily Pennsylvanian writeup
update #3 Feb 6 Courier-Post article | Morning Call column mentioning “Wild” Bill Myers | DelCo Times article | PhillyBurbs article #1 | article #2 | video of a fight between a Wing Bowl fan and a security guard
Philly.com reports that pros will be allowed in Wing Bowl 19, but it was originally announced that pros would compete in Wing Bowl 18.
update #2 More links: MyPhl17 article & gallery | PhillyBurbs gallery | DelCo Times article | Deadspin blog entry | Philebrity slideshow
update 12:28 Wing Bowl 18 coverage: 610WIP galleries & videos | Philly.com galleries & videos | CBS3 article & video | 6 ABC gallery | Deadspin gallery (NSFW)
Bill “El Wingador” Simmons mentioned he just started a new facebook fan page. Simmons noted that Squibb’s 93 wing margin was greater than the total amount of 90 wings “Tollman Joe” Paul ate to win Wing Bowl 8.
djms200 has a video of Snooki flipping the bird live on Fox 29 after being booed.
The live blog is available after the jump. Philly.com | 6ABC | csnphilly and BustedCoverage also have live blogs
Dan Gross' column for philly.com has Dave "U.S. Male" Goldstein's reaction to the continuation of the amateur-only restriction for Wing Bowl entrants. John Squibb may not be allowed to defend his title due to his winnings in independent contests.
102.1 The X has a gallery of the finals of the Richmond, Virginia Wing Bowl. The caption of the second picture reports that Jonathan Squibb won the contest. Ian Hickman also competed.
TotesFawes reports that Wing Bowl 17 winner Jonathan Squibb ate 178 wings at an unnamed company's wing eating contest. Squibb is not an employee.
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski has emailed that he won yesterday's Jakes burger qualifier by eating 5 burgers in 1 minute and 36 seconds. Wing Bowl 17 winner John Squibb was the runner up with a time of 2:33.
Jon “Super” Squibb wins Wing Bowl 17
update #2Philly.com has video – CBS3 has a slideshow and an interview with boxer Bernard Hopkins and El Wingador along with some soundless footage
Google Trends currently has “Wing Bowl 2009″ as #10 in the list of hot trends and “Angelo Cataldi” and “610 WIP” are also in the top 20.
update CourierPostOnline.com has the official top 5:
Jon “Super” Squibb – 203 wings – his facebook page
Not Rich 180
Hank the Tank 153
Da Disposal 153
Cadillac Corrigan 132
Other 5 semi-finalists (results are from end of first round)
Officer Beast 90
Frank de Fraud 87
Stormin Norman 83
Obi Wing 83 (disqualified for vomiting in the second round)
Gluteus Maximus 79
The live blog of the radio feed follows after the jump:
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