Vice.com has a blog entry calling Joey Chestnut vs. Matt Stonie competitive eating’s next great rivalry.

The new poll asks who you think should be #2 in the next MLE top 50. A listing of head to head results over the past year for Tim Janus, Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo follows after the jump.
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update July 26 Bay News 9 has an article and behind the scenes video

TampaBay.com has an article about cooking the wings

Veggie Powered has a video of the entire contest

MyFoxTampaBay has a interview with Miki Sudo recorded before the contest billing her as the Rookie of the Year.

WTSP has a gallery

Results | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 179 wings
2) Miki Sudo 155
3) Adrian Morgan 149
4) Michelle Lesco 131
5) Sonya Thomas 128
6) Sean Gordon 113
7) Marcos Owens 109
8) Juliet Lee 108
9) Brian Subich 85
10) Erik Denmark 82
11T) Eric Badlands Booker 78
11T) Damien Boykin 78
13) Bam Martinez 72
14) Jon Bello 68
15) Neil Sebree 60
16) Alex Perez 49

Joey Chestnut has defended his title with a total of 179 wings

8:03 The contest has finished

7:52 The contest has started

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update July 16 Main St. Corinth has a video of the whole contest

Rake & Herald has a contest report

update #2 WCBI has an article and video

update WTVA has an article and video

Official results Part 1 | Part 2

Ronnie Hartman has the top 4:
1) Matt Stonie 31
2) Joey Chestnut 30
3) Juan Rodriguez 17.5
4) Ronnie Hartman 13
5) Matt Raible 9
6) Damien Boykin 8.75

Leslie Lewis reports that Matt Stonie defeated Joey Chestnut

Casey Greene reports that Joey Chestnut has yet to show up at the contest site. The contest start time is 4:30 central. upddate Joey Chestnut is at the contest site

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update July 8
Joey Chestnut post-contest wiping his face with an American flag has been controversial Barstoool Sports has produced an animated .gif of the action (direct link)

Video of entire contest | introductions

Rake & Herald reports: Report 1 | Report 2

Brian Seiken has produced a “Cheap Seats” like commentary on the contest

Matt Stonie has a gallery

Seacoast Online has a report on Matt Stonie’s runner-up performance

The Visalia Times has an article about Pablo Martinez

Business Week produced a pre-contest video featuring Yasir Salem

Crazy Legs Conti asks “Is Competitive Eating Too Sexy for the 4th of July?” in Huffington Post

Official Results Part 2

1) Joey Chestnut 69, record, 7th victory in a row
2) Matt Stonie 51 personal best
3) Tim Janus 50
5) Bob Shoudt 39.75 (corrected)
4) Adrian Morgan 38
6T) Aaron Osthoff 31
6T) Jeff Butler 31
8 Yasir Salem 30
9 Marcos Owens 29
10 Erik Denmark 28
11 Pablo Martinez 27
12 Juan Rodriguez 26
13 Pete Davekos 25
14 Ronnie Hartman 22
15 Eric Booker 21
16 Christos Kyriazis 9 (sponsor’s exemption)

Rake & Herald has an interview with Joey Chestnut

Esquire has a blog entry containing an interview with Crazy Legs Conti, who says he will attend the finals as a spectator.

Pete Davekos hinted that he might be retiring.

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This post updates a post from last year comparing Joey Chestnut’s winnings from contest prizes with his annual earnings according to ESPN Magazine, which have dropped from $218,500 in 2010 to $161,400 last year according to that periodical. The new poll asks what you think is the main reason for that decline.
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update June 21 AOL Patch and Cardboard Shell have videos (via Miki Sudo)

update June 10 Rake & Herald, Chicagoist and 60625news have contest reports

Chicago Tribune and
Miki Sudo have galleries

update June 8-2 DNAInfo and Looky Tasty have contest reports.

update June 8 Shar.es has an article and video. Matt Raible is listed as a contest judge and the contest duration is given as 8 minutes.

7:38 The top 4 | rest:
1) Miki Sudo 2.9 lb. (6 minutes, previous year’s contest was 8 minutes)
2) Michelle Lesco 2.62
3) Joey Chestnut 2.56
4) Bob Shoudt 2.31
5) Juan Rodriguez 1.99
6) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 1.56
7) Brett Bernstein 1.17 amateur winner
8) Andrew Skweres 1.16 Chicago Wing Bowl representative
9) Eric Hucke 1.14

update June 8
Winning Ribmania totals

It appears that before tonight, Sonya Thomas was the only woman to have defeated Joey Chestnut. Miki Sudo and Michelle Lesco have tripled that number.

update 7:16 central Miki Sudo reportedly won the contest. (7:24) Miki’s victory is confirmed, this is the second upset in a row at the Chicago Ribfest after Tim Brown defeated Pat Bertoletti last year.

DNAInfo has a Skype interview with Joey Chestnut.

ChicagoNow and Constant Contact have reports on yesterday’s amateur qualifier won by Brett “The Ravenous Rabbi” Bernstein.

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The Money Issue of ESPN Magazine reports that Joey Chestnut earned $161,400 in 2012. His earnings from previous editions of that issue:

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update June 3 #2 Barcroft TV has a video and MTV Guy Code has a gallery

update June 3 Bowery Boogie has a video and gallery

NewYork.CBSlocal.com has an audio segment

Results from George Shea (part 1 | part 2)

1) Joey Chestnut 25 sandwiches
2) Matt Stonie 21
3) Bob Shoudt 18.5
4) Tim Janus 16
5) Marcos Owens

A pickle eating undercard contest took place

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update May 30 WV Metronews has a gallery and WDTV has an article and video

update WBOY has an article and video

The top 6 (part 1 | part 2)
1) Joey Chestnut 28
2) Miki Sudo 27.5
3) Sonya Thomas 24
4) Bob Shoudt 22.5
5) Tim Janus 22
6) Juliet Lee 19.5

Video will be livestreamed at http://vp.telvue.com/player?s=gfcc I think the last time Juliet Lee lost to a woman besides Sonya Thomas was to Elizabeth Canady in a 2007 Krystal qualifier.

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update May 21 Galleries: CultureMap | Matt Stonie | Houston Press | KTRK | Niko Niko’s

Robb Zipp has videos and the Houston Chronicle has a gallery

update KRTK has an article and video

The top 6
1) Joey Chestnut 22.25 10 minutes (new record)
2) Matt Stonie 20
3) Miki Sudo 15.5
4) Adrian Morgan 13
5) Juan Rodriguez 10
6) Steve Hendry 9.5
7) Badlands Booker 8.75
8) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 5.75
9) Corey Fanguy 5.5
10) Alex Perez 3.75

Joey Chestnut reportedly won with a new record (22.25 gyros).

update A picture of the contest field.

CW39 has an article and video previewing the contest calling Matt Stonie Joey Chestnut’s biggest rival.

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update May 1 Matt Stonie has posted a video

update April 28 Matt Stonie has a facebook gallery

Recordnet.com has an article

Official results: (Part 2)
1) Matt Stonie 9.5 lb. first victory over Joey Chestnut in 11 contests
2) Joey Chestnut 8 lb.
3) Miki Sudo 7.5 lb.
4) Steve Hendry 4
5) Jesse O’Con 2
5) Dax Swanson 2
7) Tony 1.75
8) Ken Douglas 1.5
9) Michael Stephenson

update Matt Stonie reportedly won the contest. (picture)

Joey Chestnut has a five contest winning streak. Miki Sudo has at least a 6 contest winning streak.

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update April 26 Crazy Legs Conti report | facebook gallery | amateur top 3

update DelMarVANow.com has an article. A woman, Regan Martin, won the amateur contest with a total of 69 wings in 6 minutes.

The festival facebook page has a gallery

4:36 The top 11 via Micah Collins
1) Joey Chestnut (208 wings)
2) Sonya Thomas (159)
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus (152)
4) Steve Hendry (148)
5) Micah “Wing Kong” Collins
6) “Notorious” Bob Shoudt
7) Juliet Lee
8) Yasir Salem
9) “Wild” Bill Myers
10) Marcos Owens
11) Crazy Legs Conti

4:27 Joey Chestnut has been announced as the winner with 208 wings.

3:39 The contest has started (vine.co video)

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