Mo Mbengue won the first prize of $300 in Saturday's eating contest at Trap Hibachi in Las Vegas. While in Las Vegas, he reportedly had an altercation with Stan "Bandana Eats" van Gorden at a UNLV restaurant
Registration is now open for the Eating Uranus Fudge Galactic Championship in Anderson, IN on March 29.
Flat Iron Cafe in Cleveland will hold a wing eating contest on February 25 awarding $200 to the winner. The runner up will receive $50.
Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas will hold a spicy taco eating contest on February 25 awarding $1000 to the top male and female. Derek Hendrickson will host.
Chad "Froman" Jones won the first prize of $1000 at the Loaded Fries Throwdown at Meatstock in Hamilton, NZ. Nela Zisser was runner up.
Milk and Tea in Buffalo will hold a pho eating contest on March 15 awarding $350/$150/$50 to the top 3 finishers.
Miki Sudo's and Nick Wehry's eating benchmarks appear in Guinness' list of record-breaking couples.
The Overpromised with Covino and Rich podcast has an interview with Joey Chestnut recorded at the Super Bowl. He says he has yet to reach an agreement with Major League Eating about returning to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
Mashed.com has an article titled "What the Cameras do not show us about Matt Stonie".
The Financial Times reports that Nathan's Famous has begun preliminary discussions about selling the company and taking it off stock market listings. The article says that selling licensed hot dogs manufactured by Smithfield Foods at supermarkets and other stores is the largest component of Nathan's revenues.
Registration is now open for the Ultimate Bologna Showdown presented by Dead End BBQ and Elm Hill Meats in Knoxville, TN on May 10.
The South China Morning Post has an article about Yuka Kinoshita's retirement from food challenge due to physical and mental health issues. Her youtube channel has over five million subscribers.

Madison.com on Lake Mills, WI choking incident

Madison.com has an article about the choking incident at a Lake Mills, WI hot dog eating contest on February 2. The victim, Tim Vogel, was intoxicated with a blood alcohol level of .32. (Turn off JavaScript to bypass paywall)

Vogel’s ribs, some of which had cracked under the weight of compressions, held lungs filled with fluid, and an oxygen machine was doing at least 60% of his breathing for him, Dorn said. He was coughing up blood.

“I didn’t even know for probably about 15 hours if he was going to make it,” Dorn said.

Once he was conscious and showing signs of improvement, doctors placed Vogel on a temporary liquid diet due to the trauma in his throat; he jokingly lamented that he hadn’t been able to finish his hot dogs.

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The Tap House Grill in St. Charles, IL will hold a wing eating contest on February 22 awarding $250 to the winner, $100 to the runner up.
It is one month until the Wings For Wishes Professional Wing Eating Championship in Miami on March 8 according to the event web page. The competition has yet to be listed on Major Leage Eating's schedule. update Feb 11 Registration is now open
Marcos "Monster" Owens ate 41 wings to win the first prize of $2000 in this mornings Wing Pole eating contest at Cheerleaders in Philadelphia. "Love Handles" was runner up with 40. (Source: El Wingador Instagram stories) update Apparently there were two Wing Poles today. Dave "US Male" Goldstein edged Dave "Tiger Wings and Things" Brunelli 188 wings to 186 to win his 3rd Wing Pole in the competition at Club Risque.
Caldwell County BBQ will hold an eating contest at Pecan Lake in Queen Creek, AZ on February 21 awarding $500 to the winner.
The Isle of Thanet News reports that Joel Hansen completed two breakfast challenges at the Dalby Cafe in Margate, England. He is the first person to complete the challenge since Libertines singer Pete Doherty finished it in 2018.
Slackers locations in San Antonio will hold 4 eating contests during the Super Bowl Sunday awarding a total of $1000: 2 hot wing eating contests awarding $300, a hot taco eating contest awarding $300 and a pizza eating contest awarding $100.
Newsbreak reports a competitor in a hot dog eating contest at the Knickerbocker Ice Festival in Lake Mills, WI choked and was rendered unconscious on February 1. EMS was able to clear the blockage and he regained consciousness en route to the hospital.
The Sports Bar at the Star in Sydney, Australia will hold a hot dog eating contest during the Super Bowl awarding $2000 to the winner.
Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time announced that he will face off against Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle in a boxing match at Creator Clash 3 in Tampa on June 28.
Crazy Horse Saloon in Palm Beach Gardens, FL will hold a wing eating contest during halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday awarding $300 to the winner.
The field for Friday's Wing Pole at Cheerleaders in Philadelphia has been announced. Marcos "The Monster" Owens will return to competitive eating after a 9 year hiatus.

2025 Siegel’s Bagelmania eating contest

update The Las Vegas Review Journal has an article. Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reconcile with Nathan’s.

Full results are on Instagram. MLE appears to have abandoned X

1st 15 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
2nd 14.5 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
3rd 13.125 Geoffrey Esper
4th 13 James Webb
4th 13 Nick Wehry
6th 9 Gideon Oji
7th 8.625 Tanner Gray
8th 7.375 Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden
9th 7.25 George Chiger
10th 4 Mirza Selmic
11th 3.75 Naader “Freak8r” Reda
12th 2 Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado

The field: Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden, Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzy” Salgado, Naader Reda, Tanner Gray, the 2024 MLE rookie of the year, Mike Zeldish ?, George Chiger, Gideon Oji, Nick Wehry, James Webb, Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut

Fro14 has started a livestream of today’s World Bagel Eating Championship at Siegel’s Bagelmania in Las Vegas.

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