2012 Hooters World Wing Eating Championship
update July 28 TampaBay.com and Patch.com have articles
TBO.com has a gallery
ClearwaterHag2 has a video of the pre-contest activities
update July 27 Full revised results are available inserting Pat Bertoletti and Juliet Lee at #4 and #5 which knocks Erik Denmark and Nate Biller out of the money.
| 1st | 144 | $7,500.00 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | San Jose, CA | |
| 2nd | 140 | $3,000.00 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | Baton Rouge, LA | |
| 3rd | 131 | $2,000.00 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Alexandria, VA | |
| 4th | 120 | $1,000.00 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Chicago, IL | not in original results |
| 5th | 119 | $750.00 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | Germantown, MD | not in original results |
| 6th | 115 | $500.00 | Tim “Gravy” Brown | Chicago, IL | originally listed at 119 |
| 7th | 102 | $250.00 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | Royersford, PA | originally listed at 115 |
| 8th | 88 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Seattle, WA | originally listed at 102 | |
| 9th | 85 | Nate Biller | originally listed at 88 | ||
| 10th | 55 | Lewis Richards | from England | ||
| 11th | 53 | Crazy Legs Conti | New York City, NY | about 1/3 of the 148 wings he was credited with in the qualifer | |
| 12th | 21 | Aasif Mandvi | The Daily Show contributor, claimed wings tasted like bleach after contest |
8:44 The top 7 are on IFOCE.com
1) Joey Chestnut 144
2) Adrian Morgan 140
3) Sonya Thomas 131
4) Tim “Gravy” Brown 119
5) Bob Shoudt 115
6) Erik Denmark 102
7) Nate Biller 88
8:14 Joey Chestnut is the winner with 144 wings, Adrian Morgan is second
8:11 3rd place Sonya Thomas 131 wings
8:10 results are being announced. Lewis Richards of England is 10th with 55 wings.
7:55 The contest is over
7:53 Aasif Mandvi has been disqualified
7:45 The contest has started.
7:39 Sonya Thomas concludes the introductions. Tim Janus is not in attendance, which is not completely surprising since he was not on the finalists list.
7:32 Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show is another sponsor exemption.
7:25 The introductions have started
The contest can be viewed at http://www.ustream.tv/Hooters
Stephanie Hayes is in attendance and live-blogging on twitter
Jon Gruden of Monday Night Football is present
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anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 7:51 pm
Honestly who the hell cares
anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 7:57 pm
The contest is not a real contest unless Brunelli US Male & Furious Pete are involved. Without those names you cannot clearly define a real winner
Anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 7:58 pm
Looks like Joey, Sonya, in the top 3.
Wino said
July 26, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
GRAVY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
capn brian said (Registered November 17, 2010)
July 26, 2012 @ 9:07 pm
What about deep dish and wing kong?
Anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 9:24 pm
Juliet?
Anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 9:47 pm
Weights??? Numbers are a joke
Anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 10:22 pm
Is a scam if I ever saw one. Sonya is the true wing champion along with Wing Kong Micah Collins. Something smells fishy to me and it really stinks.
anonymous said
July 26, 2012 @ 10:52 pm
what happened to crazy legs?
Where is? said
July 27, 2012 @ 12:07 am
Did Juliet and Pat not compete?
Dave Wagner said (Registered July 6, 2011)
July 27, 2012 @ 2:22 am
Go Rabbit! Dude, you almost beat Joey… kick ass.
Fogged said
July 27, 2012 @ 5:44 am
Hard to belleview that Legs, Berty, and Juliet were not in the top seven.
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 6:53 am
Just a guess. “Severe thunderstorms unleashed heavy rain and strong winds across parts of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, grounding hundreds of flights and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.”
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
July 27, 2012 @ 7:21 am
I thought this contest was very entertaining and well-organized. Congratulations to Joey and Sonya, and especially Adrian, wow!
As I watched the live streaming, Sonya’s and Adrian’s speed seemed even faster than Joey’s, which was very quick. However, I think Joey’s stronger jaws facilitated him being able to tear more meat-per-wing from the bone, overall.
I thought going in that Joey, Sonya, and Adrian would make up the top three, though I could not predict the order. The shocker for me was Juliet and Legs not finishing in the top half dozen.
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
July 27, 2012 @ 8:36 am
The 2012 Ms Hooters seems very nice, down-to-earth, sure of herself, and gorgeous.
Her Hooters are from Boca Raton, Florida; I mean, she’s from the Boca Hooters.
Jon Bello said
July 27, 2012 @ 9:38 am
With all these missing eaters I don’t see why you couldn’t have a wild card.
Jon Bello said
July 27, 2012 @ 9:42 am
Congrats to Joey, but I was hoping Adrian would
take it. Good job everyone!
hugh said
July 27, 2012 @ 9:57 am
It must of been an actual contest this time . Thats great ! They are two of the most overrated eaters in competitive eating .
anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 10:17 am
I am surprised that words such as :insane” ” mad dope” “stupid” or “the shit” were not thrown around in comments by some middle aged eaters trying to sound cool.
Missing Eaters said
July 27, 2012 @ 10:52 am
So is that what it was, flight delays due to weather?
No Legs, J. Lee, Pat or eater X?
What a waste not to have the full line up. If one was missing then no big deal, but practically 1/3 of the field wasn’t even there.
DaxtheGinger said (Registered April 23, 2011)
July 27, 2012 @ 12:54 pm
Pat got 4th and Juliet got 5th and CLC got second to last.
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
Sorry if I didn’t see the weight results of the wings? Anyone have this infirmation? I had heard the wings were to be pre contest weighed and post contest weighed. Did that change? There was a Hooters qualifier that had 100 plus wing total with just a pound of wings consumed and another with three times as much weight though less of a wing total. I hope they did it legit and have video proof or it will seem to many a fixed contest on some level.
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 1:52 pm
Pretty cool that Coach Gruden and the Daily Show were there. It’s no lead singer of the Presidents of the United States like Krif had but I’d liked to have met them.
anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 1:59 pm
Where he belongs
anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 2:03 pm
Tim Janus thought the finals were going to be held in NYC and when he found out the finalists were not getting flown to Fla he said the hell with it
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
July 27, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
Thanks Dax. That sounds more like it. We all know how great an eater Pat is, and Juliet is great with her hands, and seems to do very well with wings.
You Make the Call said
July 27, 2012 @ 4:53 pm
OJ please notice that MLE inially originally misreported the outcome. They’ve now corrected it. See IFOCE link in this string on IFOCE.com. Could you update the final toll?
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 5:15 pm
Seiken , could have wooped some CLC ass , his qualifier was a hoax
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 7:07 pm
OJ hasn’t had time. He was busy with Hooters last night.
Anonymous said
July 27, 2012 @ 7:38 pm
When you have that much disparity between what was originally posted and the changes, what is to be believed? Can you even believe the placings?
Erik the Red said (Registered January 9, 2006)
July 28, 2012 @ 6:15 pm
Ha, what a joke
Umm said
July 28, 2012 @ 6:20 pm
Erik you know it doesn’t help to complain now. Why don’t you speak up at the event.
Anonymous said
July 29, 2012 @ 8:16 pm
So let me get this straight, this contest was 29/30 mins? Chestnut couldn’t eat more at Hooters than Squibb OR Kobi OR himself in his previous Wing Bowl wins? He’s slipping in his old age.
Anonymous said
July 30, 2012 @ 10:48 am
I can’t believe they did it without all the eaters. Guess they had already decided who was going to win before the weather reports.