All time Chestnut vs. Kobayashi results
Here are the all time head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi. They have faced 15 times from 2005 to 2010; Kobayashi finished ahead in 8 of the matchups. (This excludes the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a 32 entrant tournament won by Kobayashi in which he did not face Chestnut.)
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Esstik passes 5 million youtube subscribers
Esttik from Spain recently exceeded 5 million subscribers for his youtube channel, making him the first European to exceed that benchmark. I think these are the competitive eating / food challenge channels with over 3 million subscribers:
- 16.4 Matt Stonie
- 9.31 Tzuyang
- 8.66 Hussain Sallam
- 5.28 Yuka Kinoshita
- 5.22 Wake N Bite
- 5.02 Furious Pete Czerwinski
- 5.00 Esttik
- 4.74 MaddyEats
- 4.68 Chicken Leg Piece
- 4.49 Viwa Food World
- 3.78 Nikicado Avocado
- 3.75 Beard Meats Food
- 3.46 Erik The Electric
Nathan Klein announced that he completed the Loco Moco Burrito Challenge at Aina Grill in Waipahu, HI to give him victories over restaurant challenges in all fifty states. I think the only other people to accomplish that milestone are Randy Santel, Ramsey Hilton and Ivan Mendoza. Is anyone aware of any others?
Nathan Klein attempted his 100th food challenge victory in the state of Michigan, the wing challenge at Mavrix Restaurant and Bar in Shelby Township.
Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper since Jan 1, 2022
Here are the head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper in MLE contests since January 1, 2022. They have faced off 8 times in that period; Geoff had a better finish in 5 of those competitions.
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MLE victories since the start of 2022
Here are all the people who have a victory in a Major League Eating contest since January 1, 2022, excluding Nathan’s qualifiers. I am counting October’s Albuquerque corn dog eating contest won by Miki Sudo as a MLE event even though it was never listed on their website.
Geoff Esper 19 wins in 23 contests
Miki Sudo 4 in 23
Joey Chestnut 2 in 9
Nick Wehry 2 in 25
Derek Hendrickson 1 in 6
Gideon Oji 1 in 8
James Webb 1 in 5
All the contest victories follow after the jump:
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Australian food challenger "Hulk Smash Food" announced that he completed the Sarlacc Burger Challenge at Mod Eisley Cantina to attain his 1500th food challenge victory.
MrBeast just became the youtube channel with the most subscribers, surpassing PewDiePie. In 2020, MrBeast faced off against Joey Chestnut in a giant pizza slice challenge. Earlier this year, he produced a video of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in which Matt Stonie and Joey Chestnut appeared.
On July 4, Michael Jenkins ate 117 oysters in 3 minutes to win a contest in Okeechobee, FL and attain his 100th eating competition victory.
Ethan Teske attained 300 successful restaurant challenges on a trip to Utah.
The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX has had its 72 ounce steak challenge finished in under an hour 10,000 times since its opening in 1960. The 10,000th success was by John Lamons on September 1.
The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX currently has 9,998 finishers of its 72 ounce steak over the 60 year history of the challenge.
The Badlands Chugs youtube channel has surpassed 3 million subscribers.
Randy Santel, Mitch Dombrowski, Naader Reda and Ramsey Hilton finished the 25 pound "King Kookamonga" burger challenge at Kooky Canuck in Memphis in 35:55 yesterday, giving Randy a total of 1000 restaurant challenge successes.
Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper head to head results April 25, 2021
Here are the head to head MLE results for Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper according to the eatfeats database. Esper currently has a 3 contest winning streak and has finished ahead of Chestnut in 8 of the 15 contests they have faced off since January 1, 2019
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Hussain Sallam from Saudi Arabia is about to pass a billion total video views for his youtube channel, S7SChallenges. This will be the fourth food challenge channel to hit that milestone after Matt Stonie (2.635B), Yuka Kinoshita (2.091M) and "Furious" Pete Czerwinksi (1.033M).
Randy Santel achieved his 900th restaurant challenge victory today at Wacked Out Weiners in Gulf Shores, AL.
With 5.51 million subscribers, Hussain Salaam of Saudi Arabia has overtaken Yuka Kinoshita (5.49M) to have the second most popular food challenge youtube channel after Matt Stonie.
| Channel | # Subs | # Views | Joined | User Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 🇺🇸 The Hunger Diaries (Lindsay Greene) | 96.4K | 11,279,560 | Nov 10, 2010 |    |
| 2 |  | 🇬🇧 Nutty Foodie Fitness (Stephanie Joshi) | 94.5K | 9,650,028 | Oct 30, 2017 | |
| 3 |  | 🇬🇧 Kate Ovens | 86.2K | 6,920,402 | Sep 7, 2013 |  |
| 4 |  | 🇺🇸 Main Event Pong | 81.5K | 15,838,426 | Sep 29, 2013 |  |
| 5 |  | 🇺🇸 Magic Mikey | 80.7K | 13,765,030 | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| 6 |  | 🇺🇸 Hot Dang Show | 80.3K | 5,617,900 | Dec 4, 2012 |   |
| 7 |  | 🇯🇵 Aco | 77.4K | 29,907,406 | Jan 21, 2013 | |
| 8 |  | 🇮🇳 Foodies Fight | 64.5K | 16,663,210 | Nov 30, 2018 |   |
| 9 |  | 🇺🇸 Wayne Algenio | 64.2K | 12,353,400 | Oct 7, 2009 |  |
| 10 |  | 🇺🇸 Localish | 63.9K | 20,056,589 | Aug 16, 2017 |  |
| 11 |  | 🇯🇵 Yuri Mori | 63.2K | 15,385,773 | Apr 27, 2015 | |
| 12 |  | 🇯🇵 Tani Asako | 52.8K | 4,365,809 | May 7, 2018 | |
| 13 |  | 🇯🇵 Takuya Yamamoto | 50.7K | 5,017,426 | Oct 26, 2018 | |
| 14 |  | 🇺🇸 Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark | 50.1K | 10,355,769 | Jan 4, 2014 |  |
Food challenge youtube channels with over 100K+ subscribers
| Channel | # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
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🇺🇸 Matt Stonie â˜‘ï¸ | 12.3M | 2,336,401,272 | Aug 23, 2012 |
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🇯🇵 Yuka Kinoshita â˜‘ï¸ | 5.48M | 2,034,870,303 | May 21, 2014 |
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🇸🇦 Hussain Sallam â˜‘ï¸ | 5.29M | 777,764,846 | Mar 2, 2006 |
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🇨🇦 Furious Pete â˜‘ï¸ | 5.18M | 1,021,575,005 | Aug 10, 2006 |
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🇮🇳 Viwa Food World â˜‘ï¸ | 3.65M | 621,977,787 | Aug 29, 2017 |
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🇪🇸 Esstik â˜‘ï¸ | 3.21M | 347,193,330 | Feb 28, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 LA Beast â˜‘ï¸ | 2.59M | 427,701,590 | Aug 7, 2010 |
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🇺🇸 Hellthy Junk Food â˜‘ï¸ | 2.34M | 512,939,561 | Jan 26, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 Badlands Chugs â˜‘ï¸ | 2.14M | 189,529,928 | Sep 25, 2012 |
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🇺🇸 Nikocaco Avocado â˜‘ï¸ | 2.09M | 489,444,261 | May 27, 2014 |
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🇧🇷 Corbucci Eats â˜‘ï¸ | 1.90M | 260,867,537 | May 2, 2006 |
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🇨🇦 Veronica Wang â˜‘ï¸ | 1.71M | 303,476,427 | Jun 26, 2010 |
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🇹🇼 Chien Tsu â˜‘ï¸ | 1.53M | 202,941,782 | Jul 10, 2016 |
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🇯🇵 Taniyaaan1125 | 1.46M | 329,057,183 | Sep 17, 2016 |
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🇺🇸 Erik Lamkin â˜‘ï¸ | 1.30M | 221,709,523 | Aug 10, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 Randy Santel â˜‘ï¸ | 1.10M | 318,835,610 | Sep 23, 2011 |
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🇬🇧 Beard Meats Food â˜‘ï¸ | 1.07M | 211,129,958 | Jan 12, 2015 |
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🇸🇬 Peggie Neo â˜‘ï¸ | 1.02M | 181,542,493 | Sep 26, 2015 |
Nathan’s personal bests
The following is a list of all the Nathan’s Famous personal bests for competitors with a known result in the database.
| 2018 Jul 4 | 74 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 Jul 4 | 64.5 | Takeru Kobayashi | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2018 Jul 4 | 64 | Carmen Cincotti | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2015 Jul 4 | 62 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 Jul 4 | 55 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 Jul 4 | 53 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 Jun 18 | 51 | Geoffrey Esper | Boston, MA |
| 2019 Jul 4 | 50 | Darron Breeden | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2012 Jul 4 | 45 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Brooklyn, NY |
| 2012 Jul 4 | 45 | Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt | Brooklyn, NY |
Highest Nathan’s Famous averages
This is the same list of Nathan’s Famous hot dog results posted yesterday sorted by contest average.
| # | Total | Avg. | Max. | |
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| 18 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | 1068.00 | 59.33 | 74 |
| 9 | Takeru Kobayashi | 487.75 | 54.19 | 64.5 |
| 7 | Carmen Cincotti | 324.00 | 46.29 | 64 |
| 15 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | 683.00 | 45.53 | 62 |
| 7 | Darron Breeden | 291.00 | 41.57 | 50 |
| 22 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | 900.75 | 40.94 | 53 |
| 11 | Geoffrey Esper | 437.75 | 39.80 | 51 |
| 4 | Max Suzuki | 156.50 | 39.12 | 42.5 |
| 16 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | 617.75 | 38.61 | 55 |
| 8 | Miki Sudo | 299.50 | 37.44 | 41 |
Cumulative Nathan’s hot dog totals
The following is a list of the cumulative totals from both qualifiers and finals (excluding exhibitions) for all Nathan’s Famous hot dog competitors along with the maximum and average totals. The left column is the number of contests for the competitor with a known result. These statistics will not be 100% accurate as full contests results are not always posted.
| # | Total | Avg. | Max. | |
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| 18 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | 1068.00 | 59.33 | 74 |
| 39 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | 1037.75 | 26.61 | 40 |
| 22 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | 900.75 | 40.94 | 53 |
| 43 | Crazy Legs Conti | 862.33 | 20.05 | 25.25 |
| 25 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | 847.00 | 33.88 | 45 |
| 30 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | 832.25 | 27.74 | 38 |
| 28 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | 777.75 | 27.78 | 34 |
| 27 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | 756.25 | 28.01 | 36 |
| 23 | Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt | 731.50 | 31.80 | 45 |
| 50 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | 697.25 | 13.94 | 17 |
Joey Chestnut has passed 100,000 subscribers to his youtube channel
Food Challenge youtube channels with 400K – 999K subscribers
Here are food challenge youtube channels with 400K – 999K subscribers that I know:
| Channel | # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
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🇸🇬 Peggie Neo â˜‘ï¸ | 994K | 174,312,832 | Sep 26, 2015 |
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🇬🇧 Beard Meats Food â˜‘ï¸ | 967K | 182,223,581 | Jan 12, 2015 |
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🇯🇵 “Russian” Sato â˜‘ï¸ | 790K | 347,956,685 | Sep 14, 2015 |
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🇮🇳 Wake N Bite â˜‘ï¸ | 766K | 127,534,414 | Jun 2, 2017 |
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🇫🇷 Alan Food Challenge â˜‘ï¸ | 721K | 101,495,106 | Jan 23, 2010 |
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🇹🇼 Ding Ding â˜‘ï¸ | 702K | 127,723,054 | Mar 29, 2015 |
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🇺🇸 Wreckless Eating â˜‘ï¸ | 632K | 165,822,521 | Jun 10, 2010 |
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🇯🇵 Draco | 531K | 207,229,811 | Oct 30, 2014 |
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🇯🇵 Max Suzuki | 512K | 264,005,178 | Sep 23, 2012 |
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🇪🇸 Joe Burgerchallenge â˜‘ï¸ | 474K | 66,335,096 | Nov 10, 2015 |
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🇯🇵 Onokako twins | 472K | 161,531,780 | Nov 14, 2017 |
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🇺🇸 Nate Figgs â˜‘ï¸ | 461K | 101,623,889 | Nov 17, 2011 |
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🇯🇵 Moe Azuki | 421K | 49,302,233 | Jun 18, 2018 |
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