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The Ringer calls the wing eating contest held at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo on tonight's episode of The Batchelorette "A COMPLETE SHAM".

July 16, 2018 at 11:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Television | Permalink * Comments

Leah Shutkever announces she will appear on tomorrow's episode of You vs. Chris & Kem on the British channel ITV2 at 10pm. (Trailer video).

July 15, 2018 at 8:21 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Television | Permalink * Comments

Article claims $400-500 million in MLE prize money

July 10, 2018 at 11:18 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Prizes

Front Office Sports has an article claiming that total annual MLE prize money is $400-500 million. The linked to FoxBusiness article says the total purse is $400,000-$500,000.

Summing all the listed cash purses for 2017 competitions produces a result of $198,475:
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The broadcast of the Nathan's Finals on ESPN2 was the highest rated cable program for July 4 despite a ratings decline from .45 in 2017 to .43 this year.

July 7, 2018 at 11:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments

Ivan Mendoza announced he complete the Belly Buster Challenge at Brewster's in Fairbanks, AK, which he believes makes him the youngest person to compete a burger challenge in all 50 states.men

July 7, 2018 at 2:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Alaska, Eating Challenges, Ivan Mendoza, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (1)

Randy Santel announced his youtube channel just hit 500,000 subscribers.

July 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Randy Santel, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments (5)

The debut episode of "Eating Out with Nadia White", a youtube series documenting the adult actress' competitive eating career, has been released. (press release)

July 4, 2018 at 2:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nadia White, Videos | Permalink * Comments

MLE head to head results as of July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018 at 12:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the head to head results for MLE contests over the past 365 days for people with two or more contest results in the database.

1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 93.8% 159-10-1
2 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 91.1% 92-9
3 Carmen Cincotti (C Ci) 89.7% 100-11-1
4 Geoffrey Esper (G Es) 88.3% 143-19
5 Gideon Oji (G Oj) 73.5% 142-51-1
6 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) 72.7% 8-3
7 Darron Breeden (D Br) 72.2% 91-35
7 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 72.2% 39-15
9 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) 67.7% 65-31
10 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez (J Ro) 65.8% 39-20-1

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ESPNMediaZone reports that Adam Amin will replace Indy 500 annoucer Paul Page as the play-by-play voice for the coverage of the contest on ESPN2 at noon Eastern. Paul Page most famous line covering Nathan's was probably calling the champion "Joey Chitwood".

July 3, 2018 at 12:41 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut has started a website at https://shop.joeychestnut.com/default.asp for his line of condiments. All profits from sales until July 6 will be donated to Hidden Heroes a charity for wounded veterans. (via Mercury News)s

July 3, 2018 at 12:49 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Merchandise, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Odilon Green has released "The King of July 4", a mini-album of songs about competitive eating.

July 2, 2018 at 11:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Music | Permalink * Comments (1)

MLE prize money won in the first half of 2018

June 29, 2018 at 10:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Statistics

Here is a list of all prizewinners in MLE contests in the first half of 2018 according to the database. Not many people would have expected for Mary Bowers to have higher earnings than Miki Sudo for that time period.

$10,250 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
$8,550 Geoffrey Esper
$8,000 Carmen Cincotti
$7,700 Gideon Oji
$5,000 Darron Breeden

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Possible updates to first 2018 MLE top 50

June 25, 2018 at 6:58 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Rankings

The MLE 50 top has yet to see a modification in 2018. Here are some possible changes when it is updated.

Possible New Entrants
George Chiger
Matt Hazzard
Katie Prettyman
Max Suzuki
Nick Wehry

Possible removals
Meredith Boxberger – retired
Nela Zisser – last MLE contest July 4, 2016
Scott Thomas – last contest Sep 17 2016
Micah “Wing Kong” Collins – last contest Oct 8 2016
Steven Schuster – last contest May 6 2017

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The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men's Nathan's finals will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon Eastern and rerun three times later that day. The women's contest has yet to be added to the ESPN3 streaming schedule. (ESPN2 will broadcast First Take at 10am when the female division takes place.)

June 21, 2018 at 7:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, ESPN | Permalink * Comments (10)

The American Gastroenterology Association has a blog entry about an article in the June issue of Gastroenterology documenting a hospitalization after a 7 pound burger was eaten in 30 minutes.

June 20, 2018 at 7:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Health | Permalink * Comments (2)

Gadget guru Katie Linendoll says she was the runner-up for the host of Man v Food to Adam Richman. She says she completed a big sandwich at Katz's Deli as part of her audition.

June 16, 2018 at 1:05 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Female Celebrities, Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments

Leah Shutkever announces she set the Guinness record for the fastest time to eat a chocolate orange. She has added "UK's No.1 Competitive Eater" to her Instagram bio to after finishing ahead of "Beard Meats Food" in the Highway 55 Burgers contest.

June 15, 2018 at 5:32 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Records | Permalink * Comments

Matt Stonie announces he has surpassed 5 million subscribers to his youtube channel, the first competitive eater to reach that benchmark. I think Yuka Kinoshita has the most watched channel with almost a billion and a half views.

June 12, 2018 at 3:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie, Videos, Websites | Permalink * Comments

Erik "The Electric" Lamkin has posted a video of his attempt to eat 100,000 calories over 100 hours.

June 6, 2018 at 7:20 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calorie Challenges, Erik Lamkin, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco has posted a video of a training session where she hopes to eat 38 hot dogs in 10 minutes. She will post a training video for every $110 she raises for Charity Water.

May 31, 2018 at 8:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Cardboard Shell", 2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Charity Events, Training | Permalink * Comments

Gideon Oji, Juan Rodriguez, Juan Neave, Sarah Reinecke, Matthew Raible, Andrew Kogutkiewicz, Tanner Varner, Michelle Severino, Mark Williams Michael Blue and Andrew Webber are expected to compete in the Canteen sandwich eating contest in Ottumwa, IA on Saturday. In January, the contest organizers claimed the event would be televised on ESPN, but the competition is not listed in the ESPN schedule for June 2.update Ottumwa Courier has an interview with Sarah Reinecke about competing in the contest.

May 30, 2018 at 2:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, ESPN, Iowa, Sarah Reinecke | Permalink * Comments (1)

ANIKI channel has a video of Max Suzuki training for the Nathan's finals.

May 24, 2018 at 6:47 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2018 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Japan, Max Suzuki, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Youtube has a video of Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle attempting to break 6 Guinness World Records in one session.

May 22, 2018 at 6:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle, Records | Permalink * Comments (8)

A video about the 15 pound "Heart Attack" poutine challenge at Poutineville in Montreal is currently the #1 trending video on Youtube.

May 20, 2018 at 11:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Montreal, Videos | Permalink * Comments (9)

NYDailyNews has an article about the possibility of a partnership between Takeru Kobayashi and Feltman's of Coney Island, whose founder claimed to have invented the hot dog in 1867. Feltman's owner Michael Quinn says "We'd love to work with him in the future. I'd have to see if we could afford him."

May 17, 2018 at 5:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Kobayashi (小林尊), New York City | Permalink * Comments (4)

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