update Aug 19 Metroactive has a gallery

update South Bay Pulse and 69leviattann have videos

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2

1 Matt Stonie 103
2 Michelle Lesco 59
3 Miki Sudo 58
4 Steve Hendry 54
5 Jesse O’Con Jr. 30
6 Mary Bowers 23
7 Leslie Ryder 20
8 Jon Davis 15
9 Angie Hendry 14
10 Enrique 7

Matt Stonie has set a record with 103 tacos in 8 minutes.

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Matt Stonie has taken the top spot in the MLE top 50 from Joey Chestnut. The switch appears to be the only change (cached version) ; Geoff Esper and Nela Zisser remain unranked. Joey took the top spot from Takeru Kobayashi on July 12, 2007, giving him a reign of 8 years and 2 days.

A championship parade will be held for Matt Stonie in San Jose on Friday.

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Video of entire finals

Video of protest by Collectively Free (CF) and Direct Action Everywhere (DxE)

Full Official Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Matt Stonie 62, personal best
2) Joey Chestnut 60, 8 year streak ended
3) Tim “Eater X” Janus 35.5
4) Erik Denmark 33
5) Adrian Morgan 31
6) Yasir Salem 30
7) Geoff Esper 29.5
8) Juan “More Bite” Rodriguez 28
9) Eric “Badlands” Booker 24.5
10) Pablo Martinez 22
11) Steve Hendry 21.75
12) Crazy Legs Conti 19.5
13T) Brian Dudzinski 19
13T) Gideon Oji 19
15) Jeff Butler 17
16) Nate Biller 16

Matt Stonie has upset Joey Chestnut 62 to 60

ESPN Stats & Info has an analysis of Joey Chestnut’s streak.

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Here are some reasons why Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo and Sonya Thomas might win tomorrow

Pro Joey Chestnut

• Has 8 Nathan’s totals (2 in 12 minute contests) better than Matt Stonie’s personal best of 56
• Managed to hit 60 hot dogs 2 years after first Nathan’s contest, something Matt Stonie has failed to do in 5
• Has managed to pull out of mid-season slumps by July 4 in previous years

Pro Matt Stonie

• Undefeated in 2015
• Has defeated Chestnut 2 of the last 3 times he has faced him by large margins (22.2 – 15.25 gyros, 120 – 85 Twinkies
• Joey Chestnut has lost 2 of his last 3 contests, including a defeat to Adrian Morgan for the first time in his career

Pro Miki Sudo

• Only woman to exceed 37 since 2012
• Sonya Thomas has not eaten more than 28 hot dogs since 2013
• Has won significantly more money than Sonya Thomas since July 5 ($14,950 vs. $2,400)

Pro Sonya Thomas

• Only woman to ever do 41 or more hot dogs
• Miki Sudo is winless since her 2014 Nathan’s victory
• Beat Miki Sudo badly in her last 2 contests at the Buffalo Wing Festival in August

Head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Matt Stonie and Sonya Thomas vs. Miki Sudo from the past two years follow after the jump.

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NJ.com has a gallery Brian Seiken has a contest video

update Jun 21 Official results have been posted 12+ hours after the competition end (Part 1 | Part 2)

Fink Beats the Stomach has the top 5 for the pork roll eating contest in East Rutherford, NJ

1) Matt Stonie 7.75 pounds in 10 minutes
2) Miki Sudo 5.5
3) Yasir Salem 4.5
4) Juliet Lee 4
5) Eric “Badlands” Booker 3.5
6T) Crazy Legs Conti 2.5
6T) Dave Wood 2.5
8) Wild Bill Myers 2
9) Dan Mangiapane 1.5
10T) Larelle Marie Mele 1
10T) Brian “Brian Taylor” Seiken

Tim Janus opted to work at his pizzeria after being announced as an entrant.

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John Provins has a contest video

WVMetronews and WDTV have articles. Matt Stonie says he does not expect to compete before July 4.

Official results part 1 | part 2 | part 3
1 Matt Stonie 34 rolls, new record
2 Miki Sudo 28.5
3 Adrian Morgan 23
4 Michelle Lesco 19.5
5 Juliet Lee 18.5
6 Jim Reeves 15.5
7 Eric “Badlands” Booker 15
8 Nate Biller 11
9 “Wild” Bill Myers 8
10 Dan Mangiapane 7.5
11 Deitz 7.25

Brian Subich says that it appears Matt Stonie has broken the contest record.

Previous winners

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update May 24 Fire Forks has a video of the whole contest

update May 18 Robb “Pizza Punisher” Zipp has a 32 minute video from the contest.

update Matt Stonie has defended his title with a total of 22.

The top 3 from Miki Sudo Official Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Matt Stonie 22
2) Joey Chestnut 15.25
3) Miki Sudo 14.5
4) Steve Hendry 10.5
5) Nate Biller 7.5
6) Costa Pollos 7
7) Nick Trevino 5.75
8) Alex Perez 4

Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Miki Sudo, Steve Hendry, Nate Biller and Alex Perez are expected to compete.

Joey and Matt appeared on KPRC earlier today.

previous winners

Joey Chestnut vs. Matt Stonie, previous 365 days

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update Apr 29 jmanr78 has a contest video

update Apr 26 Review Journal has a gallery

NYNY Casino has a press release about the contest

Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Matt Stonie 48
2) Steve Hendry 27 – current wild card #2 (Dave Wood #1)
3) Rich LeFevre 26 – current wild card #3
4) Pablo Martinez 19
5T) Zack Frank 9
5T) Adrian Padilla 9
7) Brian Chung 8
8) Magnificent Ben 7

1W) Michelle Lesco 27.25
2W) Carlene LeFevre 14, women’s wild card leader

Crazy Legs Conti wrote a preview of the qualifier for the Huffington Post

The field appears to include Matt Stonie, Michelle Lesco, the LeFevres, Steve Hendry and Pablo Martinez. Joey Chestnut is present as a spectator.

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Matt Stonie has posted a video of a training session where he ate 59 hot dogs. If he can match that in tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier in Vegas, he would have a chance at breaking the all time qualifier of 59.5 hot dogs (in 12 minutes) set by Joey Chestnut in 2007. The high temperature tomorrow is predicted to be 73 with a chance of rain, which should facilitate high numbers.

In a recent Fink Beats the Stomach podcast, Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco said she hoped to hit 35 hot dogs. This would be the all time non-Asian women’s Nathan’s record, which is still held by Molly Schuyler.

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