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ABC7 is doing a live video of today's "weigh-in" for Nathan's Famous competitors. update ABC's video has stopped, but the NY Posts's is going.

July 3, 2025 at 12:04 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City, Videos | Permalink * Comments

2025 Nathan’s men’s field statistics

July 1, 2025 at 9:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Statistics

Here are some statistics for the 2025 Nathan’s field. Explanation of the columns:
# Finals – number of Nathan’s finals appearances
Best – best finish in a Nathan’s final
Max – personal best Nathan’s result (finals and qualifiers)
Total – total number of hot dogs eaten in finals and qualifiers
Avg – average number of hot dogs (finals and qualifiers)

# Finals Best Max Total Avg.
20 1 76 1344 61.09 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
10 1 58 797.5 39.88 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
10 2 53 779.75 43.32 Geoffrey Esper
4 3 52 229.5 45.90 James Webb
8 3 48 523.25 40.25 Nick Wehry
2 6 43 43 43.00 Ricardo Corbucci
12 5 39 790.75 30.41 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
10 4 38 555.25 30.85 Gideon Oji
2 9 37 103 34.33 Max Stanford
4 9 34.5 286.5 22.04 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
5 7 33.5 322.5 26.88 Derek Hendrickson
7 4 32.5 537 26.85 George Chiger
2 14 29.5 74 24.67 Radim Dvoracek
1 – 25 25 25.00 Cameron Meade
1 – 23 23 23.00 Jerome Burns

All previous finals results for the field
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2025 Nathan’s women’s field statistics

July 1, 2025 at 9:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Statistics, Women

Here are some statistics for the 2025 Nathan’s women’s field. Explanation of the columns:
# Finals – number of Nathan’s finals appearances
Best – best finish in a Nathan’s final
Max – personal best Nathan’s result (finals and qualifiers)
Total – total number of hot dogs eaten in finals and qualifiers
Avg – average number of hot dogs (finals and qualifiers)

# Finals Best Max Total Avg.
11 1 51 478.50 39.88 Miki Sudo
14 1 32 583.25 26.51 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
1 – 23.5 23.50 23.50 Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee
15 2 21.25 487.00 15.71 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
8 3 16 174.25 13.40 Katie Prettyman
2 5 16 41.00 13.67 Tandra Childress
1 – 11.5 11.50 11.50 Isabeau Pearl Prettyman
7 6 11.25 110.50 10.05 Jocelyn Young
1 – 10.5 10.50 10.50 Kelly Lewis
3 9 10 40.90 8.18 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
3 14 8.75 33.00 6.60 Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado
1 – 8.5 8.50 8.50 Madison Barone
1 – 8.5 8.50 8.50 Camille O’Brien
1 – 8 8.00 8.00 Laura Beitel

All previous finals results for the field:
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George Shea, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Miki Sudo appeared on CUNY-TV's "A Slice of New York" program to discuss Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.

June 30, 2025 at 10:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Miki Sudo, Television | Permalink * Comments

2025 ESPN Nathan’s schedule

June 26, 2025 at 6:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN

The ESPN schedule for the men’s and women’s 2025 Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest is finally out. Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo will have personal cameras. The documentary, “The Good, The Bad, The Hungry will also be rerun three times.

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Pittsbugh Magazine has an article about Wildcat Championship Belts in Latrobe, PA, producer of the belts for Nathan'Famous hot dog eating contest.

June 25, 2025 at 9:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Merchandise, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Pittsburgh | Permalink * Comments (4)

Reuters reports that the government of China has called on citizens to "rationally resist bad content" of extreme eating shows due to food waste and unhealthy behavior.

June 24, 2025 at 6:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:China, Health | Permalink * Comments

Men’s Nathans contest on ESPN2, women’s not listed

June 7, 2025 at 8:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN


The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men’s Nathan’s contest will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon. The women’s contest is not listed, but will probably be streaming only since ESPN2 will be showing First Take from 10am to noon and ESPN will broadcast Wimbledon.

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TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.

June 7, 2025 at 8:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, New York City, Television | Permalink * Comments

Bartley Weaver has started a new competitive eating organization, the Extreme Eating Championshipts.

June 7, 2025 at 8:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bartley Weaver, IV, Organizations | Permalink * Comments (6)

Semora Kludy has started a youtube channel to complement her facebook page documenting her Michigan food challenges, Semora's Competitive Bites.

June 4, 2025 at 1:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Michigan, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments (18)

RIP John Brenkus, host of ESPN Sport Science. In 2014, he did a segment about the science of competitive eating.

June 2, 2025 at 5:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:ESPN, Science, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Max Stanford is the guest on the new Food Challenge News podcast. Other recent episodes: Hendrika "The Punk Gardner" Guanz | Geoff Esper | Naader Reda

June 1, 2025 at 5:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Max Stanford, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (5)

Vice Sports produced an Instagram video titled "The Dark Side of Competitive Eating" containing the Tim "Eater X" Janus quote: "Throwing up after the contest is a necessary part of the sport"

June 1, 2025 at 5:31 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

Eric "Badlands" Booker is expected to appear on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent on NBC at 8pm Eastern. updateA video of Booker's appearance doing a hot sauce chug is online.

May 27, 2025 at 6:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Television | Permalink * Comments (12)

updateJoey Chestnut ate 42 24 ounce containers of popcorn to set a record: TMZ | WIBQ The Rural King facebook has started a live video of today's popcorn record attempt in Terre Haute, IN

May 26, 2025 at 12:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Records, Terre Haute | Permalink * Comments

In Mr. Beast's latest video, "Professionals vs. Amateurs", Joey Chestnut faced off against four sumo wrestlers in a hot dog eating contest for a $100,000 donation to the winner's charity. (Joey's segment starts at 20:40).

May 26, 2025 at 1:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Charity Events, Joey Chestnut, Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang announced that her completion of the Kodiak Arrest challenge at Humpy's in Anchorage, Alaska gave her restaurant challenge wins in all fifty states. I think she is the fifth person and first female to accplish that feat after Randy Santel, Ramsey Hilton, Ivan Mendoza and Nathan Klein.

May 18, 2025 at 7:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Raina Huang, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (4)

Zermatt Neo and Pat Bertoletti attempted the famous Wanko Soba noodle bowl challenge while they were in Japan.

May 15, 2025 at 11:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Noodle Eating Challenges, Pat Bertoletti, Videos, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments (3)

Joey Chestnut will attempt to set the popcorn record at a Rural King in Terre Haute, IN on Memorial Day, May 26.

May 7, 2025 at 12:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Records, Terre Haute | Permalink * Comments

Teinei Kinoshita wins TV Tokyo “King of Gluttony” 2025

May 5, 2025 at 9:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Japan, Television

Results from the final round of today’s “King of Gluttony” contest televised on TV Tokyo. (video of program, results start at 2:50)

1 Teinei Kinoshita 23 bowls of ramen
2 Kawaxile 22 bowls
3T Geoff Esper 21
3T Pat Bertoletti 21

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Joseph Terwilliger has uploaded a video of him competing in the 1997 Nathan's qualifier at the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City, NJ. Three time champion Mike "The Scholar" DeVito won the qualifier, so a bye was not always given to past winners.

May 2, 2025 at 3:58 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Newark, Videos | Permalink * Comments (1)

Joey Chestnut's relationship with Impossible Foods might have ended. Basketball influencer Briana Green appears in a new ad for their plant based hot dogs, when Joey would have been the obvious choice. Joey has not made any videos for Impossible Foods since December.

April 27, 2025 at 7:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (1)

Jack Legath is the guest for the third episode of Extreme Eaters. He attempts to surpass Geoff Esper's total for the in studio eating challenge.

April 26, 2025 at 9:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (4)

Paramount has uploaded a clip from the 2012 film, "The Guilt Trip" of Barbra Streisand attempting a 72 ounce steak challenge at a Lubbock, TX restaurant resembling The Big Texan. Barbra did not eat any actual steak for the scene, watermelon was substituted.

April 26, 2025 at 8:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Texan, Female Celebrities, Movies | Permalink * Comments

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