The Baltimore Sun has an article about Joey Chestnut eating 230 wings in 57 minutes at Hooters, a personal record for a one hour session. He faced off against fans in 10 wing mini-contests and was defeated by Phil "The Fury" Fiore, founder of a competitive eating club at the University of Maryland in 2010.
Joey Chestnut ate 227 wings in an hour at tonight's meet and greet at a Hooter's in Atlanta.
Joey Chestnut will do a meet and greet at the Hooters in Orlando on International Drive on August 22. update The full schedule has been posted: Charlotte Aug 14, Atlanta Aug 15, Baltimore Aug 21, Orlando Aug 22, Newport, KY Aug 29, Arlington, TX Sept 8.
Joey Chestnut's final total for his 12 hour wing eating session at the Hooters in the Mall of America was 413 wings. (video)
2019 Hooters Wing Championship
| 1st | 281 | Geoffrey Esper | new record |
| 2nd | 256 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 234 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 4th | 223 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 214 | Miki Sudo | |
| 6th | 200 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 199 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 8th | 172 | Steve Hendry | |
| 9th | 158 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 10th | 115 | Pablo Martinez | |
| 11th | 111 | Nate Biller |
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie did a joint interview on FoxReno.com this morning.
2017 Hooters wing championship
The Hooters facebook has a live video of the contest.
update The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery
Official results Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 250 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 229 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 3rd | 210 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 191 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | first finish outside top 3 since 2005 |
| 5th | 168 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 158 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 7th | 152 | Josh Miller | |
| 8th | 124 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 9th | 114 | Miki Sudo | |
| 10th | 110 | Steve Hendry | |
| 11th | 108 | Eric “Badlands” Booker |
To celebrate National Chicken Wing Day, Hooters restaurants will offer All You Can Eat Wings on July 28 (all day) and July 29 (11 am to 4 pm).
Joey Chestnut retakes Hooters wings, Miki Sudo 11th
update Jul 12 The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery
Richard Corey has a video
Results Part 1 | Part 2
1 Joey Chestnut 194 in 10 min, continues undefeated 2016
2 Matt Stonie 186
3 Adrian Morgan 176
4 Gideon Oji 161
5 Michelle Lesco 142
6 Yasir Salem 138
7 Geoff Esper 137
8 Juan Rodriguez 136
9 Juliet Lee 126
10 Josh Miller 122
11 Miki Sudo 116
12 Steve Hendry 104
13 Rich LeFevre 90
Matt Stonie appeared on KTNV earlier today.
Matt Stonie wins 2015 Hooters Wing Championship
update Jul 30 contest video: HarmonTampaPR
update Jul 28 A press release about the contest is available
update Jul 26 Videos: Official Hooters video | Tampa Bay Online | ElisaTweetvVid | VeggiePowered
Joey Chestnut has won all 3 previous Hooters Wing Championsip and he has at least 15 victories in wing eating contests.
Matt Stonie has no wing victories. His only wing contest was 3rd place in last year’s Hooters finals.
More coverage
Joey Chestnut on WGN
Matt Stonie on 740 The Game
Adrian Morgan on FBTS podcast
Tucson.com has an article about Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco's training session for the Hooters Worldwide Wing Eating Championship. She hopes to eat 150 wings in 10 minutes tonight. update The official total was 6 pounds or 164 wings.
Sunstar Scheduling has a request for a medic for the Hooters Wing Championship on Saturday.
The full roster for Saturday's Hooters wing eating championship in Clearwater, FL is available. Erik Denmark, Adrian Morgan and Michelle Lesco are three recipients of byes that were not previously announced.
Terez Owens reports that Matt Stonie, Sonya Thomas and Miki Sudo will receive byes for the Hooters wing finals in Clearwater, FL on July 25, joining Joey Chestnut and 6 other qualifier participants.
Joey Chestnut wins Knoxville Hooters qualifier, Gideon Oji 2nd
1) Joey Chestnut 176 wings
2) Gideon Oji 155
3) Juliet Lee 145
4) Juan Rodriguez 112
5) Damien Boykin 103
6) Matt Raible 96
7) Eric “Badlands” Booker 94
8) Ronnie Hartman 90
9) “Wild” Bill Myers 70
Eric “Badlands” Booker appeared on WATE 6 this morning.
KnoxNews.com reports that Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez, Eric "Badlands" Booker, "Wild" Bill Myers, Ronnie Hartman, Matthew Raible, Damien Boykin, and Gideon Oji are expect to compete in Sunday's Hooters qualifier in Knoxville. The restaurant will offer all you can eat wings on July 13 and 20.
Greensboro.com has has an article on Ronnie Hartman's training session at Hooters, where he plans to eat 100 wings tonight. update WFMY reports "Megabyte" ate 77 wings in 10 minutes
Long Beach Hooters qualifier
Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 2015 Jun 27 | 1st | 136.4 | 10 min | Yasir Salem | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 2nd | 127.2 | 10 min | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 3rd | 124 | 10 min | Steve Hendry | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 4th | 97.2 | 10 min | Mark King | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 5th | 77.2 | 10 min | Carlene LeFevre | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 6th | 70.4 | 10 min | Ian Rapport | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 7th | 70 | 10 min | Andrew Mittwer | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 8th | 52.4 | 10 min | Brandon Beaderstad | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 9th | 49.6 | 10 min | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
| 2015 Jun 27 | 10th | 49.2 | 10 min | Daniel Finnerty | Hooters Wing Qualifier | Long Beach, CA |
Craigslist has a request for an EMT to oversee a competitive eating event in Long Beach on June 27, most likely the Hooters wing qualifier.
The 2015 Hooters Wing Eating Championship will take place in Clearwater, FL on July 25 and award $17500. Qualifiers in Long Beach on June 27 and Knoxville on July 12 will award 3 spots in the finals.
Youtube has a mini documentary about the 2013 Hooter Wing Eating Championship.
Gazette.net has an article about Juliet Lee competing in the Hooters Wing eating contest in Las Vegas on July 22.
Registration will open tomorrow for the Hooters World Wing-Eating Championship (purse $17,500) to be held July 22 in Las Vegas. There will be no qualifier circuit for this contest as in the previous two years.
Joey Chestnut co-stars in a commercial with John Gruden and John Daly promoting watching soccer/fútbol at Hooters (The World Cup is not explicitly mentioned due to trademark issues). The ad received negative reviews from Eurosport and Fansided.
The new poll asks what you think is the second biggest event (held for 2+ years) on the MLE circuit if the Hooters Wing Championship is defunct (no announcement has been made of the circuits 2014 return)
In 2012 and 2013, a Hooters wing eating qualifier has been held in conjunction with the opening round of the Masters. We are a week away from the start of that golf tournament in Augusta, GA and I have yet to see any information about a 2014 Hooters MLE circuit. (There will be at least one MLE event at Hooters this month: Joey Chestnut will attend a Final Four party at the Hooters in West End, TX on Sunday).
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