Pat Bertoletti, Nick Wehry, Derek Hendrickson, Darrien Thomas and Domenica Dee are expected to compete in tomorrow's Norm's Hotcake Eating Championship in Ontario, CA.
The Houston Viet Fest will hold a pho eating contest and a mooncake eating contest on September 20. Both contests will award $200/$100/$50 to the top three.
Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in the Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX on September 27 for the first time since 2020. James Webb, Adrian Morgan, Greg "The Savage" Wilson, Jocelyn Young, Radim Dvoracek, Nathan Biller, ALex Perez, Alex Bravo and Cristopher Dale are also expected entrants.
Joey Chestnut will attend Woeber's Mustard Fest in Springfield, OH on September 20, so he will not be competing in the MLE taco or hotcake eating contests on that date. He attended the festival in 2024, but did not compete in the hot dog eating contest.
Friendship Stores in Sandusky, OH will hold a chicken tender eating contest on September 20 awarding $1000/$500/$250 to the top three.
Sal's Pizza will hold a pizza eating contest in Chelmsford, MA on September 24 awarding $1000 to the winner.
2025 Trenton pork roll
update Results were posted 26 hours after the contest
| 1st | 45 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 44.5 | James Webb | |
| 3rd | 43 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 31.5 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 5th | 21 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 6th | 18 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 15 | Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter | |
| 8th | 9 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 9th | 8 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 10th | 6 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 11th | 5.5 | Camille O’Brien | |
| 12th | 5 | Julie Goldberg |
The Trentonian has an article.
Announced results (10 minutes)
1 Geoff Esper 45 pork rolls
2 James Webb 44.5
3 Nick Wehry 43
4 Radim Dvoracek
5 Larell Marie Mele
James Webb has started a livestream of today’s Trenton Thunder World Famous Case’s Pork Roll Eating Championship.
Joey Chestnut ate 275 plant-based nuggets from Impossible Foods during last night'San francisco Giants game.
The Latin Food Festival will hold an empanada eating contest in Brooklyn on September 13 awarding $500 to the winner.
Cosmos Taverna in Victorville, CA will hold a taco eating contest on September 13 awarding $500 to the winner. Raina Huang and Naader Reda are expected to compete.
Defending champion Geoff Esper, Nick Wehry, George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Larell Marie Mele, Radim Dvoracek and Rene Rovtar are expected to compete in Saturday's World Famous Case’s Pork Roll-Eating Championship at the Trenton Thunder ballpark.
Don TIto in Arlington, VA will hold a taco eating contest on September 11 awarding two tickets to the Commanders game on November 2.
Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy both ate 13 gyros in 12 minutes to tie for first place in the The Big Greek Gyro Eating Competition held at the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday.
2025 Kennett Square mushrooms
The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival is doing a facebook live video of today’s eating contests. The spicy mushroom contest has just concluded. The main contest should start around 12:45 pm Eastern.
2025 Smoke’s Poutinerie
update Toronto Star article
James Webb live video
Official results (10 minutes)
| 1st | 26.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 19 | James Webb | 4 contest winning streak ended |
| 3rd | 16 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 14.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 4th | 14.5 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 14 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 7th | 12 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 8th | 9 | George Chiger | |
| 8th | 9 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 10th | 7.5 | John “Step Daddy J” Jugovic | |
| 10th | 7.5 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 12th | 3 | Rene Rovtar |
Smoke’s Poutinerie has started a livestream of today’s poutine eating championship in Toronto.
Battle of the Bay Catfish
Official results. The units were changed from strips to pounds
| 1st | 9.89 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 7.9 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 3rd | 5.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 4.9 | Tanner Gray | |
| 5th | 4.2 | Clay Piccerillo | |
| 6th | 3.8 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 2.48 | Steven Farlow | |
| 8th | 2.4 | Mitchell Glenn | |
| 9th | 1.9 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 1.9 | Andrew Krawczyk | |
| 11th | 1 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown |
James Webb has started a live stream of today’s Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD.
MetroUK has an interview with Max Stanford.
Brewfest in Central Point OR, will hold three hot dog eating contests awarding $500 to the winners on September 13: one for male amateurs, another for female amateurs and a pro division.
James Webb, Gideon Oji and Sean Yeader will headline the field at the Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD tomorrow. This will be Yeager's first MLE contest since July 2024. update Sean Yeager says he will not compete
Rock & Reilly's Smash Burger Eating Competition at Topanga Social in Los Angeles on September 6 will award $1,000 to the winner. Raina Huang is expected to compete.
Shawn "BasketLockerBall" Butler ate 22 slices of pizza in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in yesterday's eating contest at Gino's in Ronkonkoma, NY.
The Hampton Beach, NH Seafood Festival will hold its lobster roll eating contest awarding $600/$250/$150 to the top three on September 7. Last year's competition was marred by a choking incident requiring Governor Chris Sununu to apply the Heimlich Maneuver to a competitor.
Frankie FLoats announces that Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy, Sean Yeager, Josh Krady and Peter Ritter will be competing in the mushroom eating contest at the Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square, PA on September 7.
The Franklin County Fair in Greenfield, MA will hold a wing eating contest on September 5, a hot dog eating contest on September 6 and a fried dough eating contest on September 7. All contests will award $200/$100/$50 to the top 3.
2025 Buffalo Wingfest Wing Championship
updateOver 24 hours after the contest end, full (but unsorted) results have been posted on Instagram.
| 1st | 263.36 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 197.44 | Gideon Oji | |
| 3rd | 191.68 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 155.2 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 154.88 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 6th | 145.6 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 7th | 100 | George Chiger | |
| 8th | 88 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 9th | 82.88 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 10th | 75.52 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 11th | 47.68 | Camille O’Brien |
James Webb is doing a livestream.
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