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LA.eater.com reports that Takeru Kobayashi will defend his title at the Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce taco eating contest at Chronic Tacos in Redondo Beach, CA on October 24.
Men's Health UK has an article about competitive eating focusing on Randy Santel's tour of the UK and Ireland earlier this year. Takeru Kobayashi is also interviewed. The Ionia Sentinel Standard has an account of Randy Santel and Mitch Dombrowksi finishing the 7 pound burrito at El Mariachi in Ionia, MI, part of a 78 day eating challenge tour of eastern North America.
The Jakarta Post has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi in English. He says that his peak year for Japanese competitive eating income was 2001, when he earned about $250,000. He also says he has landed an endorsement deal with Nike and that he has no plans to retire.
Applications are being accepted for competitors to face Takeru Kobayashi in the World Brain Eating Championship at the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis on October 17.
Kobayashi wins Taco Trough Takedown
update Kobayashi won the contest with a time of 1:45
Taco in a Bag will announce today the time Takeru Kobayashi needed to finish the Taco Trough challenge. This attempt will but two of his streaks on the line: a post-MLE streak now extending 5 years and a career undefeated streak vs. women. Molly Schuyler is the current leader at 2:24 with Bob Shoudt the current runner up with a time of 3:14.
Takeru Kobayashi, Pat Bertoletti, Tim Brown and LA Beast will attempt to eat a 40 pound goat tonight at Taco in a Bag tonight in an attempt to break the Chicago Cubs "Billy Goat" curse which has supposedly prevented the ballclub from reaching the World Series since 1945. update The official time was 15 minutues. Bob Shoudt joined the team. update Sep 23 Val Bromann has a blog entry & gallery More coverage WGN | USA Today | Yahoo | CSN Chicago | Sports Illustrated update Sep 25 More coverage: Wall Street Journal | Rolling Stone | NY Post | MLB.com
Kobayashi will appear at the Supermacho Taco Eating Contest at the Rehab Lounge in Omaha on Sunday The contest will award $215 cash ($125 to the winner) and $300 worth of additional prizes.
Takeru Kobayashi will serve as judge at the eating contest at the New York City Dumpling Festival on September 26. He will not compete.
Mariska Tracy met with Takeru Kobayashi in Jakarta and gave him Happy Tummy, a book she wrote about Indonesian competitive eating.
Takeru Kobayashi appeared on CNN Indonesia to promote tomorrow's eating contest at Bread Life.
Takeru Kobayashi will do a bread eating exhibition in Indonesia on August 29.
The NY Daily News reports that Pete Rose will host the kickoff reception for the Long Island Clam Eating Contest at Peter's Clam Bar in Island Park on Saturday. Takeru Kobayashi will serve as coach on the contest on Sunday.
Youtube has a video of Takeru Kobayashi competing in Food Battle Club recorded in 2001 or 2002.
In Barrie, Ontario, Takeru Kobayashi won Pie Wood Fired Pizza's Let em Eat contest for the sixth year in a row with a total of 50 slices. Pat Bertoletti was the runner up with 44 slices. update The Barrie Examiner has an article and slideshow. update Aug 4 Kobayashi https://twitter.com/FReeKobi0704/status/628600392964796416">believes he ate 58 slices. CTV.ca has a video
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at the SPiN ping pong club in New York City tonight. There will be an eating contest for amateurs.
PIE Wood Fired Pizza Joint will hold Let Em Eat 6 at Kempenfest in Barrie, ON on August 3. The contest will reportedly award $3000/$1000/$500 and Takeru Kobayashi is expected to compete, his first contest of 2015.
The new poll asks what competitive eating matchup you would most like to see. Joey Chestnut, Takeru Kobayashi, Molly Schuyler, Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo are the options.
The official result for Takeru Kobayashi's exhibition at Spin NYC today is 35 hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes while playing ping pong.
Vice.com has a video of Takeru Kobayashi displaying his hot dog eating techniques to former boxer Eric Kelly. Kobayashi tells TMZ that he would easily defeat Chestnut if he faced off in a hot dog eating contest.
In a facebook chat for the NY Daily News, Joey Chestnut mentioned the possibility of a competition against Takeru Kobayashi and said Major League Eating has agreed to the event. (direct link to comment). Nathan's President and COO Wayne Norbitz said that talks were underway but nothing definite has been planned. George Shea had no comment about the matchup.
Takeru Kobayashi has announced his July 4 event for 2015: he will attempt to set a record for eating hot dogs while playing ping pong at SPiN in New York City.
GQ of Japan has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi titled "How to be successful Japanese in the United States". (Kobayashi has not made an official public appearance in the US since October and has yet to announce his plans for July 4.)
Terminix produced a commercial where Takeru Kobayashi eats tater tots while performing everyday activities.
Takeru Kobayashi faced off against Matsuko Deluxe, a transvestite with a listed weight of over 300 pounds on the Japanese network TBS earlier this week. The program includes clips from Kobayashi's Japanese and American competitive eating careers. The commercial he filmed with Sonya Thomas appears at minute 29 and Pat Bertoletti and Ed "Cookie" Jarvis make cameos at minute 33. The show concludes with a Food Battle Club style eating contest.
The new poll asks what you think is the most likely scenario for a future contest beteween Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut. (Chestnut said that leaving MLE was a possibility earlier this month.)
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