Joe Menchetti wins Dewey Beach (Delaware) wing eating contest

July 17, 2006 at 1:27 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Delaware, Ocean City, Unafilliated Contests

DelawareOnline reports that “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Dewey Beach by eating a record 141 wings (without liquids) in 30 minutes. The win was Menchetti’s second of the weekend; he also won the Italian sausage contest in Boston.

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  1. THE TRUTH HURTS said

    July 17, 2006 @ 2:18 pm

    Did you see the size of the wings. they have to be little over an inch. Maybe two and half pound of meat. The estimation of his skills are blown way out of proportion. If he was in the IFOCE he would be ranked 21 or 22 and that would be pushing it .

  2. Yo Mama said

    July 17, 2006 @ 2:38 pm

    “We have bone checkers,” said Bob Forwood, owner of Wings To Go in Dewey Beach. “Girls come around and check your bone. And of it’s not finished, they dip them back in the suicide sauce.”

    Dang, suicide sauce on your bone.. that’s gotta hurt!

  3. Rhonda Evans said

    July 17, 2006 @ 2:54 pm

    GJoe and Ian Hickman are by far the two best independent eaters. Congrats GJoe!

  4. Joe said

    July 17, 2006 @ 6:47 pm

    Wing contests are tough enough while drinking a beverage. I can”t imagine not being able to drink anything especially eating suicide wings nice job Joe

  5. Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)

    July 17, 2006 @ 7:40 pm

    Some of you thank you & some of you FU.

    I didn’t say they were large wings, but they are similar to those used @ wingbowl but with very hot sauce instead of barbeque & you’re not allowed h20 witch definitely was a pre-contest concern. I didn’t get any sauce on my bone (thankfully) but I did get some in my eye. It burned, on the drive back.

  6. Skinny Scott said

    July 17, 2006 @ 8:46 pm

    Well done GJoe and congratulations. I’ve competed against you and I’ve been following your competitive eating career for years. You are absolutely a top 10 eater in all leagues combined.

  7. Mr Wright said

    July 18, 2006 @ 2:23 am

    Menchetti now you know how it feels when you make stupid remarks like “hmm werent those matzah balls kinda small or those hot dogs smaller than other years. Of course you will have a lapse of memory on that just like your lapse of memory calling subich and goldstein losers a few years ago .

  8. beautifulbrian said

    July 18, 2006 @ 3:04 am

    I will bet you if Menchetti called out Joey Chestnut , Chip Simpson , Pat Bertoletti Bob Shoudt or even Eric the Red in a wing contest or any food for that matter , at least two of the five would take him up on the offer regardless of IFOCE obligations . Forget Booker, Hardy, Jarvis Lerman etc etc they already whipped his ass in the past no need to go through an old scenario. I was there to witness it back then. aice and its joke of a leader are aching to get in the ring with the top IFOCE talent. I say let it be done so once and for all they will get the ass whipping they deserve and crawl back in the hole where they belong . Let Gentleman Joe have his wish but dont bitch if you lose because there aint gonna be a rematch!

  9. Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)

    July 18, 2006 @ 3:55 pm

    Mr Wright, No worries… The wings WERE small. I can admit this, unlike the mid-level eaters or below who pretend in their own minds that the Matzo balls from Manhatten aren’t twice the size of the ones in another place.

    I’m also not going to pretend that the level of competition i’ve been competing against is comparable to a Kobe/Chestnut or even a Bertoletti/Simpson/Black Widow. If they’re to be called “Major League” or Pujols/Roethliberger like talent, then the competion i’ve been facing could be compared to High A ball all the way up to a solid major leaguer or a Flutie when he was in the CFL.

    I don’t think AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, I can beat Chestnut, Simpson or Bertoletti. (Certainly not a majority of the time) I have beaten Shoudt, & less than 6 months age beat Erik the Red. Never lost to those two!

    I am NOT aching to get back in the ring with any of the ifoce guys, or gals. (For a long time, I was) I’ve only challenged one of them, (no one mentioned above) & that is more of a personal grudge match. I’ll let you mid-level morons spend your own $$$ chasing a stupid pipe dream, j@rking off when seeing yourselves on tv, (That’s the Shea’s carrot more than $$$) while I lay in wait picking up $500. here, $1,000. there, a digital camera here, a moutain bike there & every so often $5,000.
    I pray you guys stay, stupid. An ifoce eater recently complained, & i nearly beg him/her to stay, I’m not looking for anymore competition.

    I never beat Booker, head up, only when he did miserably & i did a bit better. Got Jarvis a time or two, & was close a bunch of times. Probably beat Hardy & Lerman more than they beat me.

    The Truth Hurts has a fair assessment… I think he is more than a little low, (When I was ranked #6 I thought I should be 7 or 8) but w/ the influx of high quality eaters I may no longer deserve a top ten.

    I will be away from tomorrow a.m. til late the following Tues, so sadly, I may not see the 10 different responses beautiful brian posts under 10 different alias’. Don’t worry, its pleasure, not business.

    I hope I have not offended any of those that i’ve competed against the last 3 yrs, this was not intended to do that.

    If in doubt, i’m sure oj will coinfirm that it is from me.

  10. Bubba said

    July 18, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

    I used to think that people were unfairly judgeing you, now I know that they weren’t.

  11. The Boy King said

    July 18, 2006 @ 4:29 pm

    Gentleman Joe, you are a great eater…..
    Thank you for mentoring me pre-contest, and giving me a leg to stand on for my start in competitive eating.
    But don’t give it all away…. or I won’t be winning cash and prizes while some of these guys are fighting for elbow room at the back of the fart bus.

  12. stoopidmonkey said (Registered May 29, 2006)

    July 18, 2006 @ 4:48 pm

    Rhonda Evans said,
    July 17, 2006 @ 2:54 pm

    GJoe and Ian Hickman are by far the two best independent eaters. Congrats GJoe!

    With all due respect to Ian, time will prove GJoe is superior to Ian by measurable amounts. And other new independents may challenge both these guys. Keep your eye on the Quick Check Finals. It WILL be interesting.

  13. Lumberjack says said

    July 19, 2006 @ 7:06 pm

    I have followed this sport for a long time and jo is in the top 10 of all times no matter what or who he has pissed off in the past. G-money are we and the pretty invader taking manhattan after the balloon fest?

  14. Louis Armstrong said

    July 19, 2006 @ 9:03 pm

    Did you watch this movie clip—That’s some funny shit. I like the ending sound bite–
    “I don’t want to see anything on the ground that was once in your stomach!!”.
    Who was that MC??
    http://www.wzzm13.com/battlecreek/battlecreekheadlines.asp?cmd=view&articleid=5747

    P.S. What a Wonderful World!—Think it to yourself.

  15. The Boy King said

    July 20, 2006 @ 9:08 am

    coondog

  16. Gal #1 said

    July 20, 2006 @ 12:19 pm

    Gal is best at wings

  17. beautifulbrian said

    July 20, 2006 @ 12:29 pm

    Joe i wont deny i go under a few alias but not the exaggerated 10 you claim i have. I can get arrested for claiming so many identities at one time. lol. I think everyone that logs on to this site(including you) has an alias or two and there is nothing wrong with that.If you remove seven or eight of the people that go under assumed names the site wouldnt be much fun because the 15 or so regulars would be dwittled down to 5 or 6 if their real names were revealed. What amazes me is that your evaluation of my eating capabilities(i rarely compete) seems to be based on my performances in hot dogs and the ignorant comments from your pathetic aice founder who puked up an attempt to finish a 6lb burrito when i easily completed the job in under 25 minutes. Not the best of times but completed nonetheless. If i performed that poorly in contests then please whip out the stats or go to the videotape replay before making idiotic claims about me on your website. I always hung in there with Booker Hardy & Jarvis in most of the old contests and they can verify that. If you were such an expert on eating talent you would realize that Bertolleti, Chestnut Shoudt Janus etc are able to eat 6 to 8 lbs of food which makes my 2 or 3 lbs(which used to be decent totals) at this point look like shit .Before you accuse someone of being a shitty eater which you have done on many occasions , realize that the bar has been risen and will continue to rise. Good luck Joe!

  18. David Byrne said

    July 20, 2006 @ 5:43 pm

    The MC for the most part, was a guy named chris the american schlesinger. just to let you know. Part coondog also.

  19. Britney Spears said

    July 20, 2006 @ 9:28 pm

    Dear fellow people,
    I am Britney Spears, the singing pop star. I’m just feeding Sean some Pediacare milk right now and Kevin is smoking outside on the balcony right now.

  20. Becky Dixon said

    July 20, 2006 @ 10:49 pm

    Mr Menchetti i was just on your website speedeat.com . How dare you say anything negative about Commish Hardy.Thats like disrespecting your father or Arthur Fonzarelli. He has a very demanding job trying to make this organization work and you have the nerve to dis him with those idiotic statements. I consider you a phoney rotten two faced bastard and demand that you apologize to him

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