With two victories at the Buffalo Wing Festival, Geoff Esper has moved ahead of Joey Chestnut for total MLE victories in 2019 (excluding qualifiers),

8 Geoff Esper
7 Joey Chestnut
3 Miki Sudo
2 Darron Breeden
1 Adrian Morgan
1 Gideon Oji
1 Matt Stonie

All first place results are after the jump
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update Sept 2MLE has yet to post more than the top 3, but Miki Sudo has full results

https://www.instagram.com/buffalowingfestival/ will be showing videos of the contest on its stories.

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update Sep 2 Darron Breeden has a video

Update: NOLA.com article | gallery
Adrian Morgan Instagram gallery
Podcast of WWL radio coverage

Official results 10 minutes, 2 ft slices

Fat Boy’s Pizza is owned by Gabe Corchiani, the brother of Chris Corchiani who is #2 all time in assists for NCAA division I men’s basketball.

Joey Chestnut podcast from Friday about the contest.

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update: Russia Today has a video

videos: Two Big Bites | Ruptly

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

The contest is expected to be streamed on http://facebook.com/gyozachampionship

Previous winners of the contest
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Official results

Joey Chestnut’s margin of victory appears to be the largest since Takeru Kobayashi defeated Badlands Booker 50.5 to 26 in 2002.

Brazilian Corbucci Eats is doing an Instagram Live video from the crowd on https://www.instagram.com/corbuccieats/

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Here are the head to head results for Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper since Jan 1, 2018. They are tied at 8 victories each.
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Here are the results for Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut in the 15 contests they competed against each other. Kobayashi had the higher finish in 8 of the competitions.
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Official results for today’s Hostess Donettes eating contest in Austin.

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Ottumwa Courier has an article

Prizewinners from https://www.instagram.com/hungryhazzard/ live video

1) Joey Chestnut 28.5, new record
2) Gideon Oji 19
3) Matt Hazzard 13.5
4) Mike Johnson
5) Melvin Randall / Randolph

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Official Results Part 1 | Part 2

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Official results

Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Gideon Oji, Matt Hazzard, Derek Jacobs, Darrien Thomas and Bartley Weaver are expected to compete.

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Newsday has an article about the upcoming ESPN competitive eating documentary The Good, The Bad, The Hungry directed by Nicole Lucas Haimes which includes the following quotes from Joey Chestnut about the MLE contract.

“She opened my eyes,” Chestnut, who has won 11 of the past 12 contests, said of Haimes. “Honestly, I’m so competitive that sometimes I don’t understand what other people are going through . . . I realized doing interviews that, ‘Oh my God, I was pretty insensitive to [Kobayashi’s] problems.’

“I had the same problems when I got older. I wanted more freedom, and eventually they gave me the same things he was asking for. So it’s sad that we had to lose years of competing against each other . . . . When he decided to protest his contract, I saw that as a way of not competing, a reason not to compete.

“But later I thought it took some serious guts to step away from the biggest contest of the year, and something you love. He loves it. He loves it as much as I do . . . If we had communicated more we could have helped him to solve his contract issue and continued competing against each other.”

Fink Beats the Stomach’s latest podcast includes a review of the documentary.

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