Latest results in database (All results)
| 2011 Nov 23 | ? | 7.5 | 10 min | Takeru Kobayashi turkey record attempt | Manhattan, NY |
| 2011 Sep 5 | 1st | 49 | 10 min | West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship | Mission Viejo, CA |
| 2011 Aug 21 | 1st | 43 | 12 min | Pie Eating Contest | Barrie, ON, Canada |
The Atlantic has a good article about Takeru Kobayashi facing off against Bill "El Wingador" Simmons in Wing Bowl 20. The article incorrectly says it will be their first meeting; they both competed in the Glutton Bowl and the 2004 Nathan's finals.
Takeru Kobayashi will be answering questions at 3pm eastern about the Wing Bowl on ustream.tv. update a video of Kobayashi's appearance is available
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.
@WingBowl20, the official Wing Bowl twitter for WIP, retweeted the following: "#America>Japan. #KobayashiSucks" update Jan 27 The retweeting appears to have been undone.(original post) update Jan 27 #2 WIP has emails that it believes the Wing Bowl twitter was hacked and says that it "will be excited to have Takeru Kobayashi participating in Wing Bowl 20 and we have the utmost respect for him"
Philly.com has an article about Takeru Kobayashi participating in Wing Bowl 20 in which Joey Chestnut asks if he will be a wingette.
Spreadshirt has a line of Kobayashi T-shirts with a Philadelphia theme.
Kobayashi announces that he set a Guinness record on the Wendy Williams Show this morning by eating 14 Twinkies in one minutes. (video | gallery)
Takeru Kobayashi has posted a link to a Chinese website that has videos of Japanese competitive eating shows including Food Battle Club. There is also a Japanese segment about the 2001 Nathan's finals (video with 13:04 duration)
Kobayashi' youtube channel has videos of him answering questions asked him by users of reddit.com Part 1 | Part 2. A transcript of his responses are available in which he says that he has an event planned this spring in Austin. Kobayashi has also posted a short video where he addresses the rumors about his sexual orientation.
TheScore.com interviews Takeru Kobayashi
TheScore.com has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi (via FreeKobayashi twitter), who has the following things to say about his former organization:
He also says that MLE has a tendency to send packages of eaters to particular events, with an eye towards tilting the balance towards favoured competitors.
“If they want one character to win [a particular contest]… They choose which [other] players are going to go there… and they can prevent other players who actually want be at that contest from going,” Kobayashi said through James.
That said, he’s quite emphatic in stating that he’s not accusing the competitive eating circuit of being fixed, just that the deck is occasionally stacked in favour of certain eaters.
“No, it’s not [fixed], but in their organization, on their terms… it’s close to being that way. They control it the way that they want it.”
The interview also mentions a thwarted deal with Johnsonville Sausages. (Kobayashi competed in an IFOCE Johnsonville bratwurst contest in 2006.)
“Johnsonville Sausages, for example, contacted Kobi and wanted to work with him… and he wanted to work with them, but he couldn’t,” James says. “They were holding him down, like ‘No… unless they go through us, you can’t work with them,’ which was heinous to him, because he had an agency in Japan that he was with… He didn’t belong to [MLE,] but they came up out of the blue and said ‘We own you, and we’re going to make people sign through us if they want anything to do with you.’”
The article lists Don Povia of HHR Media Group as Kobayashi’s manager. The HHR stands for HuggingHaroldReyndold.com, which Povia co-founded.
Takeru Kobayashi is currently accepting questions from fans on reddit.com. He will answer the questions in a video posted on his new youtube page on Wednesday.
SI.com has a video of Takeru Kobayashi eating Christmas cake and drinking a gallon of egg nog at the sports Illustrated office. (via Kobayashi twitter)
SI.com has a gallery of Takeru Kobayashi's visit to the Sports Illustrated office on Tuesday where he drank a gallon of egg nog faster than a team of staffers could.
Takeru Kobayashi has been officially announced as a competitor in Wing Bowl 20.
FreeKobayashi announces that a big announcement will be made tomorrow. Will Takeru Kobayashi commit to competing in the 2012 Wing Bowl?
Takeru Kobayashi has posted a picture of his turkey eating exhibition in the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated.
RecordSetter announces Takeru Kobayashi's total in today's turkey record attempt was 8.52 pounds in 10 minutes. update The official amount was 7.5 pounds (gallery) update Nov 24 Huffington Post has a video update Nov 24 #2 Huffington Post report |
Takeru Kobayashi has started a new facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/KobiEats
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi will attempt to set a record for eating turkey at Turtle Bay in New York City on Wednesday. The event will be broadcast on Kobayashi's ustream channel.
The FreeKobayashi twitter announces that Takeru Kobayashi will be a guest of The Daily Show tonight on Comedy Central at 11 pm. update The clip containing Kobayashi's short appearance is available online (via Free Kobayashi twitter)
GuinnessWorldRecords has video from a Japanese television program where Kobayashi attempted to break the Guinness record for burgers by eating 10 burgers in 3 minutes. (Audience video from the record attempt in New York City in August 2010)
Takeru Kobayashi was reportedly at the office of Sports Illustrated today and ate 32 hardboiled eggs and drank a gallon of milk.
MikeSteadyBurn has a video of Takeru Kobayshi drinking a gallon of milk in 18 seconds at today's Blogs With Balls Sports New Media Conference (via BuzzFeed). Darren Rovell of CNBC had a picture taken with Kobayashi, who he said hit "rockbottom" for appearing at a baseball game in Gary, IN.
Kobayashi wins West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship
update Sept 8 TheSun.Co.UK has an article with a video and OrangeCounty.com has a video
update Sept 7 Personal bests have been updated.
update Sept 6 #2 CBS and KTLA have new videos. A video of almost all of the entire contest is available. Patch has a gallery.
update Sept 6 The OC Register has an article and gallery and Fox News has an article. (via comment)
update 11:13 Naader Reda has the results
1) Takeru Kobayashi, 49 hot dogs, lowest total in a big hot dog contest since 2005
2) Tom Gilbert 29
3) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 25
4) Rich LeFevre 23.75
5) Johnnie Excel 22.75
6) Naader Reda 17
7) Dale Bone 16.5
Kevin Ross 16
9) Aaron Ybarra 14
10) Mary Bowers 6.5
update 9:52 Kobayashi’s official total is 49 hot dogs
update 9:30 The contest is over. Rebecca Hall reports that Kobayashi ate 47 hot dogs. (Dale Boone reportedly quit)
Naader Reda has a preview of this evening’s West Coast Hot Dog Eating Championship at The Derby Deli in Mission Viejo, which will start at 6pm Pacific (9 pm eastern).
At least six competitors in the ten person field have eaten at least 30 hot dogs in a contest. Here are the personal bests according to the eatfeats databse (contests only, no exhibitions)
Takeru Kobayshi 64.5 HDB in 10 minutes
Tom Gilbert 34.5 12 minutes + OT
Rich LeFevre 34 HDB in 12 minutes / 31 in 10 minutes
“Furious” Pete Czerwinski 33 12 minutes + OT
Dale Boone 31 in 10 minutes
Johnnie Excel – 30 HDB in 15 minutes
Kevin Ross 20 HDB in 10 minutes
Naader Reda – 17.5 HDB in 12 minutes
Aaron Ybarra – 17 HDB in 12 minutes
Mary Bowers – 8 HDB in 12 minutes
If Tom Gilbert finishes ahead of Pete Czerwinski, it would be the third time in a row he has bested “Furious” Pete and Tom Gilbert would have a strong claim as the top non-IFOCE competitive eater besides Kobayashi. Here are their head to head results:
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