Male competitive eaters category

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Dan "Killer" Kennedy ate 10 bowls in 4:30 to win the first prize of $1,000 in Tuesday's eating contest at Ani Ramen in Maplewood, NJ.

October 11, 2024 at 10:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Newark, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Joey Chestnut will attend the Ocean Beach, CA Oktoberfest tomorrow. He will be the toastmaster for an event sponsored by Jagermeister that will attempt to set a Guinness record for the most people toasting simultaneously.

October 11, 2024 at 8:53 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, San Diego, Uncategorized | Permalink * Comments

Joel Hansen ate 37 burgers in 10 minutes to win the first prize of £500 in Sunday's British Eating League contest at Cattleman's Steakhouse in Paignton, England. Max Stanford was runner up and John "Food and the Beast" Dawes was third.

October 1, 2024 at 12:29 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Devon, Joel Hansen | Permalink * Comments (9)

2024 Lewisville tamale eating contest

September 28, 2024 at 2:12 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dallas, Geoff Esper

Official results (10 minutes). James Webb was apparently disqualified.

1st 88 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 68 Nick Wehry
3rd 65 Miki Sudo
4th 55 Derek Hendrickson
5th 35 Tanner Gray
6th 25.5 Albert Bravo
7th 24 “Nasty” Nathan Biller
8th 20 Tandra Childress
9th 19 Edgar Martinez
10th 15 Jocelyn Young
11th 12 Shawn “The Vacuum” Kirby

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Padrino Foods World Tamale Eating Championship in Lewisville, TX.

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Joey Chestnut will be speaking and cooking one of his favorite dishes today at the Kroger Wellness Festival in Cincinnati. Other celebrities appearing at the Wellness Festival today include controversial model Chrissy Teigen and former MLB shortstop Alex Rodgriguez, who was suspended for the entire 2014 season for a PED scandal.

September 28, 2024 at 12:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (1)

Mo Mbengue won the first prize of $500 and Spurs courtside tickets at yesterday's pancake eating contest at Magnolia Pancake Haus in San Antonio.

September 27, 2024 at 3:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Mo Mbengue, San Antonio, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Jack Legath won the hot dog eating contest held during Saturday's MustardFest in Springfield, OH. Joey Chestnut presented him with a championship belt.

September 25, 2024 at 12:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dayton, Jack Legath, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (2)

The Ringer on “Unfinished Beef”

September 23, 2024 at 10:09 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kobayashi (小林尊), Las Vegas, Unfinished Beef

Jodi Walker wrote a long article (or short book?) for Ringer.com about the “Unfinished Beef” matchup between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi that was streamed on Netflix on Labor Day. There will probably not that much new in it for people familiar with competitive eating other that some behind the scenes information about how the event was put togther. Nicole Haimes, director of the 2019 documentary about the Chestnut / Kobayashi rivalry “The Good, the Bad, the Hungry” was also the executive producer of “Unfinished Beef”.

But there was still one speed bump: “When negotiating for this whole thing, Chestnut and I with Netflix, we were talking about the possibility of doing this on Fourth of July,” Kobayashi tells me. That would have meant not competing in the Nathan’s competition in 2023, which Joey refused to do (62 hot dogs in 10 minutes). “So I thought, well, if he doesn’t have respect for me, then I don’t think I want to compete against him,” says Kobayashi. Haimes fortunately managed to rope him back into the deal with Netflix by suggesting that they couldn’t “let the perfect get in the way of the good.” Kobayashi relented and even said that Chestnut could compete in the Nathan’s contest in 2024 if he wanted. They would simply find a different (slightly less patriotic) date for their one-on-one. “But then he was banned from the Nathan’s competition, ironically,” Kobi smirks.

After MLE contracts worked against them for years, a contract dispute finally worked in their favor. Kobi and Joey were at Netflix. And people were excited.

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Joey Chestnut appeared at tonight's Atlanta Falcons game to promote Free Hot Dog Night.

September 22, 2024 at 9:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Atlanta, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments

2024 Trenton Thunder pork roll contest

September 21, 2024 at 3:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Geoff Esper, Trenton

update Full results

1st 44.5 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 44.25 James Webb
3rd 42.5 Nick Wehry
4th 20.25 Tanner Gray
5th 19 George Chiger
6th 14 Peter Ritter
7th 10 Crazy Legs Conti
8th 10 William “Wild Bill” Myers
9th 7 Julie Goldberg
10th 6 Kevin Ackerman Trenton Thunder employee

Results from Aaron Cohen live video
1 Geoff Esper 44.5 pork rolls (10 minutes)
2 James Webb 44.25
3 Nick Wehry 42.5
4 Tanner Gray 20.25
5 George Chiger 19

James Webb is running a livestream of today’s Trenton Thunder World Famous Case’s Pork Roll Eating Championship.

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SpringfieldNewsSun reports that Joey Chestnut will appear at a hot dog eating contest at MustartFEST in Springfield, Ohio on September 21. He will do a hot dog eating exhibition and present awards to winners of an amateur hot dog eating contest that are topped with spicy condiments from Woeber's. Joey Chestnut's appearance was announced on August 25, before Springfield, Ohio received national publicity for alleged violations of pets and wildlife by Haitian immigrants. update Sept 20 The Springfield News Sun has an interview with Joey Chestnut about his appearance in Springfield, OH tomorrow.

September 18, 2024 at 1:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dayton, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (5)

Joey Chestnut is promoting Chili's 3 For Lunch combos, which offer an entree, bottomless chips and salsa and a non-alcoholic drink with free refills for $10.99. On October 1, he will face off against a 3 For Lunch combo.

September 18, 2024 at 1:52 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:All You Can Eat, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments

The South China Morning Post has a long profile of Singaporean food challenger Zermatt Neo. He says he hopes to compete in next year's Nathan's hot dog eating contest and hopes for a top 6 finish.

September 13, 2024 at 10:35 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Singapore, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments (7)

Joey Chestnut ate 18 sausages in 3 minutes to surpass the combined total of five amateurs during halftime of today's Cincinnati Bengals game.

September 8, 2024 at 11:29 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments

Dan Kennedy announced that he and Molly Schuyler both ate 14 gyros in 14 minutes to tie for first place at the Big Greek Gyro eating contest at the Saints Constantine & Helen Green Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday. Mo Mbengue also competed.

September 8, 2024 at 11:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Maryland, Molly Schuyler, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (7)

TMZ has an interview with Pat Bertoletti in which he claims that his Nathan's title should have an asterisk since Joey Chestnut did not compete.

September 8, 2024 at 4:40 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Pat Bertoletti | Permalink * Comments (1)

MassLive.com reports James Webb will compete in a fried chicken eating contest at Nan's Kitchen in Stow, MA on September 8.

September 6, 2024 at 1:05 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Unafilliated Contests, Worcester | Permalink * Comments (5)

Joey Chestnut will be facing off against five amateurs in a bratwurst eating contest during halftime of Sunday's Cincinnati Bengals game.

September 4, 2024 at 2:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cincinnati, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (1)

Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef

September 2, 2024 at 2:34 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊), Las Vegas, Leah Shutkever, Matt Stonie, Unfinished Beef

Joey Chestnut has defeated Kobayashi 83 hot dogs to 67 to set a world record for a 10 minute hot dog contest.

In the first undercard, Matt Stonie defeated three aquatic Olympians (Ryan Lochte, Ryan Murphy and Max Irving) in a 3 minute wing eating contest, 53 wings to 36.

Some links about Unfinished Beef
Decider has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi
Brobible has an interview with Chestnut and Kobayashi
NYTimes article

Netflix has an instagram post about the Chestnut / Kobayashi rivalry with two major errors: Kobayashi did not reverse in the 2007 Krystal Square Off, he missed it due to “jawthritis” and Kobayashi did not compete in the 2010 Nathan’s finals, he attended as a spectator and was arrested afterwards.

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In the undercards for "Unfinished Beef", Matt Stonie will face off against water polo player Max Irving and Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy in a 1 vs. 3 wing eating contest. Leah Shutkever will attempt to break the Guinness World record for watermelon eating. WWE wrestlers Rey Mysterio and Omos will present the championship to the winner of the main event.

September 2, 2024 at 12:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Male Athletes, Matt Stonie, Unfinished Beef | Permalink * Comments (10)

All time Chestnut vs. Kobayashi results

September 1, 2024 at 9:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊), Statistics, Unfinished Beef

Here are the all time head to head results for Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi. They have faced 15 times from 2005 to 2010; Kobayashi finished ahead in 8 of the matchups. (This excludes the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a 32 entrant tournament won by Kobayashi in which he did not face Chestnut.)
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2024 US Chicken Wing Eating Championship

September 1, 2024 at 5:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Contest Results, James Webb

update Sept 5Four days after the contest, MLE has posted full results

1st 236 James Webb
2nd 205 Miki Sudo
3rd 187 Nick Wehry
4th 148 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
5th 140 George Chiger
6th 132 Joey Przybylowicz
7th 118 Eric “Badlands” Booker
8th 110 Brandon “The Titanium Jaw” Macey
9th 93 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
10th 76 William “Wild Bill” Myers
11th 61 Kirby Shawn

Announced results from James Webb live video
1 James Webb 236 wings (12 minutes)
2 Miki Sudo 205 wings
3 Nick Wehry 187 wings

WGRZ is currently running a live video of the US Chicken Wing Eating Championship from the Buffalo Wing Festival in Orchard Park, NY.

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Nick Wehry wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl

August 31, 2024 at 7:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Buffalo, Contest Results, Nick Wehry

update Sep 5 Full results have been posted on the contest page
Nick Wehry’s time was 5:42. All other times are 5:52

1st 5 Nick Wehry first contest since “Plategate”
2nd 5 Miki Sudo
3rd 2.84 George Chiger
4th 1.85 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves
5th 1.72 William “Wild Bill” Myers
6th 1.71 Eric “Badlands” Booker
7th 1.5 Shawn “The Vacuum” Kirby
8th 1.13 Rene Rovtar

The top 3 of today’s Buffalo Buffet Bowl at the Buffalo Wing Festival via Joel Hansen’s video
1 Nick Wehry
2 Miki Sudo
3 George Chiger

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2024 Colorado State Fair Slopper contest

August 31, 2024 at 5:42 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Colorado Springs, Contest Results, Geoff Esper

The Pueblo Chieftain has a gallery

Announced results 8 minutes
1 Geoff Esper 31.5 Sloppers
2 James Webb 31
3 Steve Hammond 19.5
4 Tanner Gray 15
5 Mo Mbengue 14
6 Sergio Reyes Raya 10
7 Mark Sutherberg 8.5

James Webb is running a live video

The field: Mark Sutherberg, Tanner Gray, Mo Mbengue, Sergio Reyes Raya, Steve Hammond, James Webb, Geoff Esper

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MLive.com has an article about Jack LeGath breaking two cookie eating records at Heidi’s Darn Good Cookies in Kochville Township, MI.

August 30, 2024 at 5:16 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dessert Eating Challenges, Flint, Jack Legath | Permalink * Comments (5)

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