Competitive Eating category

Children: Business (413) | Eating and Society (40) | Galleries (309) | Health (431) | Humor (63) | Judging (41) | Media (2,448) | Organizations (221) | Podcasts (289) | Rankings (267) | Records (195) | Science (100) | Statistics (209) | Training (108) | Videos (2,162) | Websites (428)

"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)

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 (11)

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
Read the rest of this entry »

Comments (9)

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:
Read the rest of this entry »

Comments (1)

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.

Comments (6)

« Previous Page · Next Page »