Rolling Stone has an article about Matt Stonie calling him "the future of competitive eating".
Matt Stonie defends Slugburger title
2014 men’s Nathans finals
Official Top 3 (Full results – July 8)
1) Joey Chestnut 61 8th victory in a row, proposed to Neslie Ricasa before contest
2) Matt Stonie 56
3) Tim Janus 44
4T) Brian Dudzinski 34
4T) Erik Denmark 34
6) Juan Rodriguez 32
7) Adrian Morgan 29
8) Marcos Owens 26
9) Badlands Booker 25
10) Yasir Salem 19.75
11) Aaron Osthoff 19.5
12) Pablo Martinez 17
13) Ronnie Hartman, 14
14T) Sean Gordon, 10
14T) Sgt. Horacio Chanyau, 10
16) Colin Shirlow 3
Jeff Butler missed the contest due to a cancelled flight
Post contest coverage
- ESPN.com article
- Daily Beast contest report
- Brooklyn Paper article and gallery
- Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun Times calls MLE eaters “professional bulimics” and claims he witness much backstage vomiting when he attended a Nathan’s finals
- Guardian.com article
- Video of Sport Science segment about competitive eating seen during Nathan’s broadcast
- Village Voice gallery and animated GIF of Joey Chestnut eating 61 hot dogs
- Bleacher Report claims Matt Stonie is “ushering in a new era of competitive eating”
- Broadway World gallery
- Seacoast Online article about Matt Stonie
- Juan Rodriguez gallery – 32 hot dogs
- Aaron Osthoff article – 20 hot dogs
- Pablo Martinez article – 17 hot dogs
- Ronnie Hartman article – no total
- Crazy Legs Conti poem based on “The Night Before Christmas”
The men’s Nathan’s contest will be live at noon eastern on ESPNews and ESPN3.com. It will be rerun on ESPN2 at 2pm eastern. If the France / Germany World Cup game goes to overtime / penalty kicks, it will cut into that program. The contest will also be rerun at 6pm eastern today and July 5 and 6.
Matt Stonie has defeated Joey Chestnut in two of their last three matchups. He has also posted a training session video where he ate 66 hot dogs; if he can replicate that today, he could threatens Joey Chestnut’s Nathan’s streak.
Pre contest coverage
- Joey Chestnut
The Atlantic asks if Joey Chestnut is the most dominant athlete of all time
Joey Chestnut gives a minute by minute contest report to the Hollywood Reporter
Appearance on Vice.com’s “Fat Jew Show” about Joey Chestnut’s bathroom experiences
Esquire.com graphic about 27,6000 calories in 69 hot dogs - Matt Stonie
SeaCoastOnline of New Hampshire calls Matt Stonie a local - The Daily Mail calls Matt Stonie “The World’s Youngest Competitive Eater”
- Erik Denmark
Appearance on the Jason Smith show - Colin Shirlow
Dubbelin.com article about addition to finals field
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of a training session where he ate 66 hot dogs.
2014 Nathan’s Boston qualifier
update June 26 Mix104.1 has an interview with female winner Nicole Pulig
update June 23 Boston.com has a gallery with the totals for the top 3 men.
update June 22 The Boston Herald has an article, video and gallery
MyFoxBoston has a video
update Results
1) Matt Stonie 53, personal best, 10 minute qualifier record, New England record
2) David Wood
1W) Nicole Pulig 7.5
2W) Mia Davekos 6
CBSLocal has a an article
Matt Stonie thinks a Nathan’s qualifier record might be possible today. Here are the 45+ qualifier results:
Tailgate Fan has an interview with Matt Stonie.
Matt Stonie is currently the guest on today's episode of Wreckless Eating Live.
Matt Stonie announces he will compete in the Boston Nathan's qualifier on June 21.
2014 Three Rivers Festival Pepperoni Rolls
Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1 Matt Stonie 31, birthday
2 Miki Sudo 26
3 Michelle Lesco 18.5
4 Marcos Owens 18
5 Juliet Lee 17.6
6 Jim Reeves 15.5
7 Bill Myers 7.25
8 Leo Gioia 6.5
9 James Haynes 6
10 Tim Cope 5.5
Bob Shoudt was unable to get out of Carnegie Mellon
Matt Stonie wins 2014 Niko Niko gyros
update May 26 Rake & Herald has a contest report
Niko Niko’s has a video
update May 19 ABC13 and Examiner have articles
Robb Zipp has videos: intro | contest | results
Adrian Morgan has a gallery
Full Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Matt Stonie 24
2) Joey Chestnut 21
3) Adrian Morgan 12.5
4) Miki Sudo 11.5
5) Juan Rodriguez 9.5
6) Steve Hendry 8
7) Nate Biller 6.5
8) Mark Preng 5.5
9T) Alex Perez 4.5
9T) Tommy Miller 4.5
11 Nicole Miller 3.5
12 Alex Brouskakis 3
Niko Niko’s reports Matt Stonie ate 24 gyros to set a new record.
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie appeared on Local 2 Houston this morning.
Matt Stonie's new video where he eats 100 Peeps in 2 minutes has received coverage in TIME | Huffington Post | Metro UK | Laughing Squid & Jebezel The mark bested "Furious" Pete's mark of 60 in that time period.
The Daily Mail has an article about Matt Stonie's Chipotle burrito video which bills him as a trainee dietician.
Matt Stonie has produced a video of him eating four burritos from Chipotle. His beverage was a Diet Coke.
Matt Stonie is currently answering questions in a reddit.com Ask Me Anything session.
Matt Stonie announces that he will be answering questions in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on reddit.com tomorrow at 7 pm eastern.
NUVO Magazine has a short article about competitive eating focusing on Matt Stonie and Meredith Boxberger making note of the face that they are both 5 feet 8 inches and 128 pounds.
A request for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) interview session with Matt Stonie has been posted on reddit.com
Racket Magazine has an interview with Matt Stonie.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has praise for the video of Matt Stonie eating one of the WWE star's "legendary cheat meals".
Thrillist.com has a list of 7 tips from Matt Stonie on maximizing buffet food consumption.
Matt Stonie has produced a video where he eats the "Legendary Cheat Meal" of pro wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Matt Stonie has posted a thank you video after his youtube channel exceeded 100,000 subscriptions.
In Wreckless Eating's latest video, Matt Stonie guest stars and consumes a variety of weird items including chewing tobacco approximately 70 years old.
Matt Stonie has uploaded a video of the brain taco eating contest held at the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis earlier this month. The youtube commenters generally think that winner Joey Chestnut received favorable judging.
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