Pat Bertoletti says he hopes to face Takeru Kobayashi at the upcoming contest at Pie Wood Fired Pizza in Barrie, Ontario. This would be the first matchup between the two since the 2009 Krystal Square Off Finals.

July 23, 2013 at 9:15 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Pat Bertoletti, Toronto | Permalink * Comments (6)

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  1. Anonymous said

    July 23, 2013 @ 11:19 am

    This is very cool for many reasons. Pat is the first (well, if you do not include Kobayashi) to go independent and then decide to continue and go up against another former MLE top eater. It will be the first time Kobayashi has had competition from a (former) top 5 MLE eater. Pat seems to certainly want to continue competing but in a different way. Having more fun perhaps and adding to his resume and public profile to further his food truck, chef, anything he wants career without having to compete repeatedly for income in MLE which he certainly did in spades and made lots of money. Kobayashi has had basically no competition whatsoever since leaving MLE and likely his manager likes it just fine that way. Maybe Kobayashi would really like more competition but his level is so high that that seems difficult to come by. In any case it shows once again that many kinds of competitive eating and eaters can thrive. No need to keep tearing down this person or that or this organization or that. It isn’t a pyramid with one or a group at the top.

  2. Anonymous said

    July 23, 2013 @ 6:20 pm

    Love Pat ,but he will do no better against Takeru than he did Chstnut these two eating against each other is certainly great for the indy scene as a whole and bad for the contract eating “show”, and in particular will give Takeru a much needed spark

  3. Anonymous said

    July 23, 2013 @ 9:14 pm

    this will push everyone to do better in CE well the indy people anyways woot !!!

  4. Anon said

    July 25, 2013 @ 6:47 am

    Man, Furious Pete won’t be able to hold up his facade as a competitive eater for much longer. First he bails on the Z-Burger contest to avoid facing both Pat and Jamie, who each nearly doubled Pete’s best numbers at that very contest in which he proudly boasts of 3-peating, because he once boldly stated that the *only* person he can’t beat is Kobayashi and didn’t want to be utterly embarrassed.

  5. Anonymous said

    July 25, 2013 @ 10:56 am

    The burgers at Z burger were not the same this year . When they used those burgers in 2010 Pete won with 23 .

  6. Pete of Z burgers said

    July 25, 2013 @ 12:52 pm

    They always differ every year. pat and jamie did no such thing. They were lucky to get that many as they suffer afterwards.

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