Male competitive eaters category

Food Challenge News has an interview with Australian competitive eater James Webb. He recently got engaged and plans to return to the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
NTNews.com.au have a report on Randy Santel and Katina DeJarnett finishing the Giant Laksa Challenge at Lisa’s Lunch Bar in Winnellie, NT, Australia. They are the first people to complete a bowl filled with 800g of noodles, 600g of meat and 3.5 litres of soup.

Qdoba World Burrito Eating Championship

update JSonline.com has a contest report

Official results (10 minutes):

1st 14.5 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 1st victory in 9 months
2nd 13.5 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 11.25 Miki Sudo
4th 10.5 Nick Wehry
5th 9.25 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
6th 3.75 Erik Huke
6th 3.75 Peter Klepacsz
6th 3.75 Joey Valdez

The live youtube video has started. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is also doing live Instagram stories.

Joey Chestnut did an interview for Outkick about today’s contest for Outkick. He says that the leg injury that afflicted him in 2022 is fully behind him and he hopes to his a record total in the high 70s in this year’s Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest.

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Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark ate 20 Hot Slaw Dogs on Saturday to win the first prize of $500 at the Hot Slaw Festival in Cleveland, TN.
Joey Chestnut ate 7 coney dogs in a minute during tonight's Detroit Pistons game. The exhibition raised $25,000 towards Forgotten Harvest, a Detroit hunger charity.
MLive.com has a report on Joey Chestnut's visit to the Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan in Taylor, MI to help package food items with Detroit Pistons forward Marvin Bagley III. Joey also did a chicken wing eating exhibition at the facility.
Lynnwood Today has a report on Steve "the Rabbit" Hammond and Scott "Scott Eats" Watkins attempting a 30 inch pizza challenge intended for teams of three at Kebella's Pizza & Pasta in Edmonds, WA.
The Johns Hopkins alumni magazine has a long profile of Crazy Legs Conti.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in the QDOBA World Burrito Eating Championship on April 6.
Joey Chestnut will be eating coney dogs at the April 4 Detroit Pistons game. The team is holding a contest to select his eating partner.
in Broomall, PA, Dan Kennedy defeated Molly Schuyler in a one-sandwich eatoff to win the Delco Steaks "Cheesesteak Bowl" for the third year in a row. The prize was $1000. update6abc.com has an article. Dan "Dan Rock" Nawrocki ate 2.75 sandwiches in 10 minutes to win the amateur division
Raina Huang ate 21 lumpias in one minute to win the first prize of $1000 in Saturday's eating contest at Island Pacific Market in Lake Forest, CA. Kevin Ross tied for third. (video)
Ed "Cookie" Jarvis has posted several videos of his television appearances to his youtube channel.
B/R Walkoff produced a videovid asking members of the USA baseball team how many hot dogs they could eat in 10 minutes.
AsiaOne has a report on Zermatt Neo and Raina Huang attempting 100 egg tarts in Singapore. (video)
In his latest video, a Jaffa cake challenge, Geoff Esper admits he is lacking enthusiasm for competitive eating and is considering missing Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. (via MikeyinCharge)
ABC7Amarillo.com has an article about actor Will Ferrell attempting the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan in Amarillo, TX Saturday while wearing a Sherlock Holmes costume for an upcoming cross country road trip documentary. Instagram gallery
Kevin Ross reports that Juan Water Bottle finished his burrito in about 4:30 to win the first prize of $1,000 in Friday's Blue Burro eating contest in Long Beach. Raina Huang was runner-up.
Max Stanford ate 14 items from Greggs (six bakes, four sausage rolls and four doughnuts) in 3:09 to win the first prize of £100 in a video based British Eating League contest.

2023 Wings for Wishes contest

Sports Grill has posted a result video of today’s Wings for Wishes eating contest in Miami: (10 minutes) Official results

1st 173 Nick Wehry 2nd victory in 7 days
2nd 166 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 128 Bartley Weaver, IV
4th 64 Crazy Legs Conti
5th 45 Jason Ruppert
6th 38 Tracie Dickerson
7th 32 Parker Branton

Geoff Esper’s 5 contest winning streak (since a 3rd place finish in the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest). He is undefeated in foods besides wings and hot dogs in 2022 and 2023.

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ABC Action News has a segment about Nick Wehry, who will be going for his second victory in a week at tomorrow's Wings for Wishes wing eating contest in Miami tomorrow.
Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" attempted to win $1,000 by finishing the 9 pound "Godzadilla" quesadilla challenge in under 35 minutes at Chabelitas Mexican Grill in Las Vegas.
Matt Stonie's restaurant Stonie Bowls will open at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta when the Citizens Market food hall begins operation.

Nick Wehry wins Wonderful Pistachios, Joey Chestnut last

Official results for this morning’s Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin’ Eating Championship held at the Santa Monica Pier. Joey Chestnut’s 7th place finish is his worst placing since a first round loss in the 2005 US Open of Competitive Eating, a 32 person tournament.

1st 109 Nick Wehry 1st MLE non-qualifier victory
2nd 102 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan
3rd 100 Miki Sudo
4th 88 Steve “The Rabbit” Hammond
5th 85 Bartley Weaver, IV
6th 72 Gideon Oji
7th 70 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 7th is worth placing since 2005 US Open

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Food Challenge News has an interview with Geoff Esper, who says that competitive eating is not as much fun as it used to be and that he is contemplating retiring at the end of the year.
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