Competitive Eating category

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People Magazine reports that Dmitry Nuyanzin, a Russian fitness coach, passed away in his sleep from cardiac arrest after eating 10,000 calories a day for several weeks. Nuyanzin was attempting to gain more than 50 pounds, after which he would demonstrate his fitness plan to lose the weight.

November 26, 2025 at 11:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Russia | Permalink * Comments (3)

A wing eating contest will be held in Buffalo on December 20 that will attempt to receive Guinness World Record recognition as the largest wing eating competition.

November 24, 2025 at 12:41 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Records | Permalink * Comments

The Ultimate Eating Championship will hold its first event in January at the The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint in Ocean Springs. Former Man v Food host Casey Webb will MC the competition.

November 22, 2025 at 12:47 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Biloxi, Man vs. Food, Organizations | Permalink * Comments

Ekathimerini.com reports that a 22 year old resident of Athens, Greece passed away after choking while attempting to stuff an entire burger in his mouth on November 12.

November 20, 2025 at 7:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fatalities, Greece | Permalink * Comments (1)

Molly Schuyler won the first prize of $1,500 in yesterday's pizza eating contest at Sal's Pizza in Chelmsford, MA. Dan Kennedy was runner-up and Joe Menchetti was third.

November 16, 2025 at 8:59 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Boston, Contest Results, Unafilliated Contests, Videos | Permalink * Comments (8)

Guinness World Records has a short video about the new taco record of nine tacos in a minute set by James Webb and Miki Sudo at September's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.

November 15, 2025 at 2:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

WABC has uploaded a mini-podcast in which Curtis Sliwa, Republican candidate in last week's New York City Mayoral election, discusses his competitive eating experience. He says that his third place finish in the 1996 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest was assisted by stuffing three hot dogs in his pocket. He also discusses former NFL lineman William "The Refrigerator" Perry's disappointing four hot dog result in the 2003 Nathan's contest, which he claims was caused by injuries resulting from a fight with competitor Chris Eyre after Perry had an affair with Eyre's wife.

November 12, 2025 at 8:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nathan's History, New York City, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

James Webb wins “Big Eater King Fall 2025”

November 3, 2025 at 9:21 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Japan, Television

TV Tokyo just concluded its broadcast of “Big Eater King Fall 2025”. In the final round, James Webb, Tenei Kinoshita and Ryu completed 22 bowls of ramen. James Webb won the contest after he was found to have finished more of his final bowl. Video of broadcast.

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The website for Extreme Eating Championships, Bartley Weaver IV's new organization, is now up at https://extremeeatingchampionships.com/

November 2, 2025 at 7:45 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Organizations, Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

The streamer Speed will take on Joey Chestnut in competitive eating in the third episode of "Speed Goes Pro" that will be released today at noon Eastern. (preview)

October 29, 2025 at 7:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Videos | Permalink * Comments

James Webb discussed competing in the 2025 Nathan's Famous finals on the Australian television program "Gogglebox". He says that one of his plates had six hot dogs when it should have had five and that he was not provided with adequate water.

October 28, 2025 at 9:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Australia, Television | Permalink * Comments (9)

An episode of "America Says" produced by the Game Show Network in which a quartet of competitive eaters consisting of Jimmy Lin, Naader Reda, Aubrey Koehn and Kevin Ross faced off against four yogis has been uploaded to youtube.

October 27, 2025 at 10:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Aubrey Koehn, Kevin Ross, Naader Reda, Television | Permalink * Comments

"Everything on the Menu", starring the former WWE performer Bruan Strownman, debuted last night on the USA Network. The first two episodes, Fort Worth, TX and Washington, DC can be viewed on youtube.

October 25, 2025 at 11:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas, District of Columbia, Eating Challenges, Male Athletes, Television | Permalink * Comments

Kate Ovens was the guest on the latest episode of the Yunk Life podcast.

October 23, 2025 at 2:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

GuinnessWorldRecords.com has a post about James Webb and Miki Sudo setting a new world record of 9 tacos in a minute before last month's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.

October 7, 2025 at 8:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Miki Sudo, Records, San Antonio | Permalink * Comments (10)

The Fall 2025 edition of TV Tokyo's "Battle of Big Eaters" was recorded this past weekend. James Webb, Pat Bertoletti and Gideon Oji were invited to compete. The competition will be televised on November 3.

October 6, 2025 at 8:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

Bartley Weaver's Extreme Eating Championships will hold a donut eating competition awarding $1,000 to the winner in conjunction with the Mr. Olympia Expo in Las Vegas on October 11. A qualifier will be held October 10. Dan Kennedy and Naader Reda are expected to compete.

October 5, 2025 at 8:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Organizations, Prizes | Permalink * Comments (4)

MidMichiganNow.com reports that Charlie and the Chew Crew ate a 6.5 pound sundae at Kearsley Kone in Flint, MI. (video)

September 29, 2025 at 12:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Flint, Ice Cream Challenges, Videos | Permalink * Comments (23)

In his latest video, Joel Hansen announced that the right side of his face has become paralyzed due to Ramsay Hunt syndrome, the same condition which affected Justin Bieber. He hopes to have a full recovery and will be taking a hiatus from new food challenge content in the meantime. Get well soon Joel.

September 24, 2025 at 2:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health, Joel Hansen, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

"James Can Eat", the new James Webb documentary, can now be viewed on Amazon Prime. James did an interview with Muscle & Fitness about the film.

August 22, 2025 at 7:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, James Webb | Permalink * Comments (21)

The October 9, 2006 episode of "Wife Swap" in which Eric "Badlands" Booker and boxer Jennifer Alcorn exchanged families can be viewed on youtube.

August 21, 2025 at 10:24 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Television, Videos | Permalink * Comments (3)

Generation Iron has a preview of "James Can Eat", James Webb's documentary that will be released Friday. The second trailer for the film has been released.

August 18, 2025 at 11:16 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, James Webb | Permalink * Comments (18)

In an upcoming DC / Marvel crossover comic book, the Incredible Hulk and Harley Quinn will face off in "Nateman's Infamous Coney Cram" hot dog eating contest

August 15, 2025 at 11:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Comics | Permalink * Comments (1)

Dan Kennedy faced off against Jordan Mailata and Cam Jurgens of the Philadelphia Eagles in an Uncrustables eating contest. Jason Kelce served as coach.

July 30, 2025 at 6:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dan Kennedy, Male Athletes, Philadelphia, Videos | Permalink * Comments (2)

Rich and Carlene LeFevre are expected to appear on tonight's episode of "America's Got Talent" at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central on NBC. update Collider has a post about the LeFevres' appearance. They did not advance to the next round. A video of the appearance is on youtube.

July 29, 2025 at 2:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Carlene LeFevre, Rich LeFevre, Television | Permalink * Comments (4)

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