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Joey Chestnut appeared on SI Now to talk about his training techniques. Full video.
2019 Mutton Glutton
| 1st | 52 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 43 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 31 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 4th | 25 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 5th | 24 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 21 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 7th | 20 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 15 | Matt Hannan | |
| 9th | 12.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| DQ | ? | John Wells |
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Gideon Oji, Matt Hazzard, Derek Jacobs, Darrien Thomas and Bartley Weaver are expected to compete.
Newsday on “The Good, The Bad, The Hungry”
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.â€
Fink Beats the Stomach’s latest podcast includes a review of the documentary.
Joey Chestnut will appear at Cub Minnehaha in Minneapolis tomorrow as part of its grand opening celebration.
Joey Chestnut did an interview for CBS Local about The Good, The Bad, The Hungry. He is more sympathetic to Takeru Kobayashi's grievances that he has previously been saying (around 7:20) "There are things he was right about. The contract needed to change." He also talks about the Wing Bowl and The Amazing race and announces the ESPN air date for the documentary as July 2.
Joey Chestnut appeared on NY1 this morning to promote the premier of the documentary The Good, The Bad, The Hungry, a film about his rivalry with Takeru Kobyashi, at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight. He also participated in a hot dog eating contest with station staff.
The Good, The Bad, The Hungry, an ESPN documentary about the rivalry between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will debut at the Tribeca / ESPN Sports Film Festival Gala in New York City on April 26. Tickets will go on sale March 26.
2019 Carnaval Miami croqueta eating contest
| 1st | 185 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 140 | Darron Breeden | |
| 3rd | 108 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 4th | 101 | Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran | |
| 5th | 85 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 64 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 6th | 64 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 28 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 9th | 27 | Jocelyn Walker | |
| 10th | 20 | Tracie Dickerson |
Amateur contest results from Michael Jenkins (5 minutes)
1) Joel Hansen 87
2) Michael Jenkins 46
3) Jay Figueroa 33
Katie Prettyman’s live stream
The Miami Herald has a column about the disclamier that entrants in Sunday's croqueta eating contests are required to sign with quotes from Joey Chestnut.
Joey Chestnut appeared on the Hochman and Crowder show yesterday to promote Sunday's croqueta eating contest in Miami.
Joey Chestnut will do a meet and greet at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco tomorrow hosted by Day-Lee Foods, sposors of he MLE gyoza contest.
Joey Chestnut uploaded a mini-docuemtary about the Day Lee Gyoza Eating Championship held in Los Angeles in August.
USAToday.com reports that Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney was excited to meet Joey Chestnut, who attended today's media day activities for Monday night's college football national championship game in Santa Clara, CA.
Joey CHestnut faced off against Alabama fan Llyas Ross Sr. in a wing eating contest held on top of a billboard promoting Monday's college football national championship game.
Joey Chestnut is offering a 3-pack of his condiment line including an extra autographed container for $30 on his website. All profits will go to Toys for Tots.
Joey Chestnut & Geoff Esper to face off for most 2018 victories
The field for tomorrow’s World Famous St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail-Eating Championship before the Big 10 football championship has been announced: Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper will seek the most non-qualifier MLE victories in 2018 (currently tied at 11) while Darron Breeden, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Derek Jacobs, Matt Raible and Mary Bowers will look to preserve the draw. If Mary Bowers does not pull of the upset, there will be no female winners of a mixed-gender MLE competition in 2018.
A list of all 2018 MLE non-qualifier winners sorted by name follows:
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Today is the 35th birthday of Joey Chestnut, making him eligible to run for President.
Joey Chestnut will appear at the Kroger in Indianapolis on Thompson Road on Thursday and offer samples of his condiment line.
2018 Fortune Bay Indian tacos
| 1st | 30.5 | Geoffrey Esper | new record |
| 2nd | 23.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 23.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 20 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 19 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 6th | 15 | George Chiger | |
| 7th | 11 | Brett Healey | |
| 8th | 10 | Matthew Raible | |
| 9th | 3 | Peter Boney | |
| 10th | 2.5 | Alex Cook |
MLE (non-qualifier victories in 2018)
11 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut
10 Geoffrey Esper
3 Carmen Cincotti
3 Darron Breeden
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie
1 Miki Sudo
1 Gideon Oji
A win today for Joey Chestnut would clinch the most calendar-year victories for him with just one more competition remaining in 2018.
Joey Chestnut appeared on KBJR yesterday
VirginiaMN.com has a preview of tomorrow's Indian taco eating contest at Fortune Bay Resort Casino in Tower, MN with quotes from competitors Joey Chestnut and Matt Hazard. Geoff Esper, Gideon Oji, "Mike Sudo" and Matt Raible are also expected to compete.
2018 Smoke’s Poutinerie contest
Official results. Miki Sudo was announced on stage as the runner up
| 1st | 17.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | regains lead for 2018 MLE non-qualfier wins with 11 |
| 2nd | 16 | Darron Breeden | |
| 3rd | 15 | Miki Sudo | announced as runner-up on stage |
| 4th | 12.5 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | announced as 3rd place on stage |
| 5th | 11.5 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 10 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 7th | 9.5 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 8th | 8 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 9th | 7.5 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 10th | 5.5 | Jesse Kankula | |
| 10th | 5.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers |
Joel Hansen ate 8.5 pounds in 5 minutes to win the amateur contest, which is more than 4 of the 11 professionals ate in 10 minutes
Matt Stonie has posted a livestream video of the contest
2018 Pacific Park taco eating contest
Official results (8 minutes)
| 1st | 62 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 52 | Gideon Oji | |
| 3rd | 40 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 4th | 37 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 32.5 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | |
| 6th | 32 | Taran Eckel | |
| 7th | 17 | Nathan Klocke | |
| 8th | 14 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 9th | 10 | Casey Lin | |
| 10th | 6 | Stewart Lopez | |
| DQ | ? | Marco Gutierrez | |
| DQ | ? | “Magic” Mikey McDonigal |
ABC7 has a live video
2018 Trenton pork rolls
Official results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 50 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 2nd | 38 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 29 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 29 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 22 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 6th | 20 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 7th | 14.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 12 | Crazy Legs Conti | |
| 9th | 9.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 10th | 7 | Scott Voegele | |
| 11th | 6.5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 12th | 4.5 | Kristina Rovtar |
The Trenton Thunder twitter reports Geoff Esper won today’s pork roll eating contest with a total of 50.
2018 Zinzinnati Bratwurst
Official results 10 minute contest
| 1st | 65.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 48.25 | Darron Breeden | |
| 3rd | 39 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 4th | 38 | George Chiger | |
| 4th | 38 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 35 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 7th | 26 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 18 | “Big Eater Mike” Michael Whities | |
| 9th | 13 | Sean Mulcahey | |
| 10th | 7.25 | Randy Rico | |
| DQ | ? | Matthew Raible |
2018 Big E White Hut World Cheeseburg Championship
update Full official results (10 minutes) Part 1 | Part 2
| 1st | 47 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 45 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 28 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 26 | Gideon Oji | |
| 5th | 21 | George Chiger | |
| 6th | 16 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 7th | 15.5 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 7th | 15.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 9th | 11.5 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | |
| 10th | 5 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 11th | 4 | Prudence DiBenedetto |
There is a close race between Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper for most non-qualifier MLE victories in calendar year 2018:
| 8 | Geoffrey Esper |
| 7 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 3 | Carmen Cincotti |
| 2 | Darron Breeden |
| 1 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie |
| 1 | Miki Sudo |
| 1 | Gideon Oji |
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