https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8e0YaV1rf8">A live stream of "Strongest Eater King" Currently being televised on TV Tokyo is available. James Webb is competing. update James Webb has regained the title he first won in Fall 2025.
The Donut Fun Run will hold a donut eating contest for amateurs awarding $500/$300/$200 to the top three in Alameda, CA on October 17.
Pat Bertoletti wins Cozy Dogs eating contest
Official results for the Cozy Dog Eating Championship in Springfield, IL
| 1st | 51 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 37.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 3rd | 25 | Jerome Burns | |
| 4th | 15.5 | Semora Kludy | |
| 5th | 13.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| 6th | 12 | Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz | |
| 7th | 7 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 7th | 7 | Camille O’Brien |
James Webb wins Lewisville, TX tamale eating contest
| 1st | 86 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 55 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 3rd | 52 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 4th | 34 | Greg “The Savage” Wilson | |
| 5th | 32.5 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 6th | 25.5 | “Nasty” Nathan Biller | |
| 7th | 24 | Trevor Blow | |
| 7th | 24 | Albert Bravo | |
| 9th | 20 | Jacob Carr | |
| 10th | 14 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 11th | 11 | Alex “Moose” Perez | |
| 12th | 8 | Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado |
Joey Chestnut wins Williamsburg pancake eating contest
| 1st | 40 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | contest record |
| 2nd | 28 | Max Stanford | |
| 3rd | 27 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 23.25 | Gideon Oji | |
| 5th | 20.75 | Miki Sudo | |
| 6th | 15 | Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee | |
| 7th | 13.25 | Mitchell Gillen | |
| 8th | 5.5 | Jacob Bales | |
| 9th | 5.25 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 10th | 4.25 | Rene Rovtar |
Joey Chestnut has won the World Pancake Eating Championship in Williamsburg, VA with a new record.
Yahoo! Japan has an article about Japanese food challenger Wakana Uehara who tours as a professional wrestler. She has a youtube channel "Wakana Eats Everything" and is concerned that her channel will be demonetized like some big eating Korean channels have been due to concerns that they promote unhealthy behavior.
The Glizzy Hole in Atlanta will hold a hot dog eating contest on September 26 awarding $500 to the winner.
Usinger's Brat Eating Competition at Milwaukee Oktoberfest will award $1,000 in cash and prizes to the winner on October 3.
The Beer Kitchen in London, ON will hold a corn eating contest on October 4 awarding $1,000 to the winner. It will also hold a speed eating contest awrding $250 to the first person to finish 10 ears of corn.
The Keweenaw Canal Colors Festival will hold a pie eating contest on October 3 awarding $400 to the winner.
RIP Tim “Eater X” Janus
update Sept 26 Entertainment Tonight has an obituary
update Patch.com has an obituary.
The Major League Eating home page reports that Tim “Eater X” Janus passed away on September 16 following a long battle with cancer. He would have been 50 on December 31. Janus is the sole member of the Major League Eating Hall of Fame.
In a 2024 Time Magazine article, Tim Janus said he retired from competitive eating in 2016 due to concerns about his health, but said he was currently healthy.
Tim Janus, a 47-year old ex-competitive eater who Metz has studied in scientific research, quit the sport in 2016 after 11 years “out of an abundance of caution” partly based on Metz’s findings about the risks. He was also concerned about the harms of throwing up following competition, a practice that he describes as widespread. “When you’re eating that much food, you can’t digest it all,” he says. “Your stomach is too full to move things along. Throwing up after the contest is a necessary part of the sport.”
Janus tried to collaborate with other pro eaters to share and track their health to better understand the effects of competing, but he couldn’t rally their interest. He’s now a foreign service officer in Mexico City in good health. Most of his former competitors say they’re healthy, too, but he “didn’t want to continue and realize I made a mistake.”
Janus was one three protagonists (along with Takeru Kobayshi and Ian Hickman) in MTV’s 2006 documentary, “True Life: I’m a competitive eater”, which can be viewed online. He was also featured in Jason Fagone’s book, “Horsemen of the Esophagus” (Google Books sample)
The final competitive eating activity for Janus was serving as a commentator on Netflix’ “Unfinished Beef: Chestnut vs. Kobayashi” in September 2024.
James Webb ate 30 pies in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $10,000 (Australian) in today's Garlo's Aussie Pie Eating Championship at Coogie Bay Hotel in Sydney. (livestream | 9 News Australia)
Joey Chestnut defends Smoke’s Poutinerie title
update Contest video
| 1st | 21.25 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 18.5 | Max Stanford | |
| 3rd | 15 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 3rd | 15 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 13.875 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 13.75 | Miki Sudo | |
| 7th | 13.375 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 8th | 13.25 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 9th | 9.625 | Jacob Williams | |
| 10th | 9.5 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 11th | 8.5 | John “Step Daddy J” Jugovic | |
| 12th | 8 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 13th | 6 | Semora Kludy |
Nothing has yet to be posted about today’s poutine eating contest in Toronto other than an Instagram post from Albuquerque Steve reporting that Joey Chestnut has defended his title with a total of 21 pounds in 10 minutes.
Centrella's Deli will hold a meatball eating contest in Haverford, PA on October 3 awarding $600 to the winner.
On Sunday, James Webb will compete for a first prize of $10,000 at Garlo's Aussie Pie Eating Championship at Coogee Bay Hotel in Coogee, NSW, Australia.
September 26 MLE contest fields
Fields for the MLE contests on September 26:
- Williamsburg, VA pancakes: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Max Stanford, Gideon Oji, Jerome Burns, Josh Krady, Rene Rovtar, William Myers
- Lewisville, TX tamales: James Webb, Geoff Esper, Radim Dvoracek, Derek Hendrickson, Adrian Morgan, Sergio Reyes Raya, Jocelyn Young, Greg Wilson, Alex Perez, Nathan Biller, Elizabeth Salgado, Albert Bravo
- Springfield, IL Cozy Dogs: Pat Bertoletti, Darrien Thomas, Jerome Burns, Matthew Raible
Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry are expected to compete in Saturday's Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto.
The Los Angeles Korean Festival will hold a corn dog eating contest on October 3 awarding $500/$200/$100 to the top three.
Matt "Mattachewsit" Stefanilo ate 24 lobster rolls in 10 minutes to defend his title at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival. Joe Menchetti was runner up.
George Shea’s 9/11 experience on NY1
On September 11, 2001, George Shea was riding in a car in south Manhattan when the first airliner crashed into the World Trade Center. He called into the local cable news channel NY1 and reported hearing multiple explosions and that an airplane tire fell near his vehicle. NY1’s full morning telecast is available on youtube, George Shea’s call begins’s at 21:30 (Tip: Rob Guy)
Segment transcript follows:
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2026 Trenton Pork Rolls eating contest
| 1st | 41.25 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 41 | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | 30 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 4th | 25.1 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 5th | 19 | Josh “The Goat” Krady | |
| 6th | 16.75 | Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter | |
| 7th | 10.5 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 8th | 10 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 9th | 7 | Madison Brown | |
| 10th | 6 | Camille O’Brien | |
| 11th | 5 | William Cooper | |
| 11th | 5 | Rene Rovtar |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s pork roll eating contest in Trenton, NJ.
North Shore Beef’s Three Way Slider World Championship
updateOfficial results
| 1st | 46 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 43 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 40.5 | Max Stanford | |
| 4th | 26 | Jerome Burns | |
| 5th | 16.25 | Yasir Salem | |
| 6th | 15.5 | Semora Kludy | |
| 7th | 10 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 8th | 9.5 | Lauren Pace-Fraunfelter | |
| 9th | 6 | “DanBob” |
update The video went down, but Pat Bertoletti won the contest via Game On Fenway’s instagram stories
North Shore Beefs is doing an Instagram Live video of today’s Three Way Slider World Championship
“Hungry” Charles Hardy and rembering 9/11
On September 11, 2001, “Hungry” Charles Hardy, runner up in the 1998 and 1999 Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contests, was working as a corrections officer in New York City. The 2006 book, “Eat This Book” documents Hardy’s recovery efforts at the disaster site over the next several weeks. The carcinogenic chemicals at Ground Zero resulted in cancer which claimed Hardy’s life in 2023.
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First MLE top 50 of 2026
For the first time in over 8 months, the MLE top 50 has been updated. Scott “Scott Eats” Watkins is not ranked, so presumably he declined the MLE contract. updateHere is the full list with the previous ranking
Dropping out:
20 Mayoi Ebihara
33 Max Suzuki
36 Zosan Pacpac
38 Erik Denmark
39 Kelly Wong
40 Pablo Martinez
47 Joey Przybylowicz
48 Julie Goldberg
50 Michael Dietz
Billy Robbin won the first prize of $1,000 in Monday's pizza eating contest at Gino's in Ronkonkoma, NY.
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