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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)

Takeru Kobayashi's shirt with signatures of the 2009 Nathan's Famous finalists was appraised at 300,000 Yen ($2031). Kobayashi has shaved his head.

July 25, 2025 at 8:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2009 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Kobayashi (小林尊), Merchandise | Permalink * Comments (1)

DerekPR has uploaded a video about the Hwy 55 World Hamburger Eating Championship held in Raleigh, NC on May 20, 2017. The competitiors included Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy, Bob Shoudt, Adam "Beard Meats Food", Darron Breeden and Wayne Algenio.

July 25, 2025 at 7:48 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Highway 55 Challenge, Raleigh, Videos | Permalink * Comments

A trailer for "James Can Eat", a new documentary starring James Webb has been released. The film will be available on Amazon Prime and other platforms on August 22. I think James is the third competitive eater to have a documentary after "The Story of Furious Pete" and Crazy Legs Conti's "Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating". update July 26A clip of James discussing vomiting and the possibility of water intoxication is available.

July 23, 2025 at 7:39 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Documentaries, James Webb, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

Crossing Broad reports that a competitor choked and was hospitalized during Saturday's hot dog eating contest at Ducktown in Atlantic City held in conjunction with a Micro Wrestling card. EMT were fortunately able to prevent a fatality. (Reddit thread about the incident)

July 22, 2025 at 8:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlantic City, Health | Permalink * Comments (1)

Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle returned to competitive eating at a pizza eating contest in Maplewood, NJ, his first competition in four years.

July 9, 2025 at 8:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Newark, Videos | Permalink * Comments (7)

Newsday's LI Works has a video about Eric "Badlands" Booker.

July 9, 2025 at 7:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Long Island, Videos | Permalink * Comments

ESPN PR reports that an average of 1.62 million viewers watched the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4, the highest total since 2014.

July 9, 2025 at 7:32 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (2)

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

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