Male competitive eaters category

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TMZ reports that Joey Chestnut is negotiating a return to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest next month. According to the article, Joey's relationship with Impossible Foods is no longer impeding his return. It is possible the deal has been terminated; Joey Chestnut has not made any videos or appearances for the plant-based meat company in 2025.

June 10, 2025 at 10:09 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (10)

TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.

June 7, 2025 at 8:37 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, New York City, Television | Permalink * Comments

Bartley Weaver has started a new competitive eating organization, the Extreme Eating Championshipts.

June 7, 2025 at 8:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Bartley Weaver, IV, Organizations | Permalink * Comments (6)

2025 Salvation Army donut eating championship

June 6, 2025 at 2:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:District of Columbia, James Webb

WUSA9 also has a live video and a news video

Official results

1st 64 James Webb
2nd 52 Nick Wehry
3rd 29 Noah Romoff
4th 28 Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
5th 26.5 Steven Farlow
6th 11.75 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
7th 10.5 Karen Szala
8th 9 Mae Renmick
9th 6 Judah White
10th 5 Prudence DiBenedetto

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC.

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2025 Parma, OH Nathan’s qualifier

June 5, 2025 at 6:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Cleveland, Contest Results, Max Stanford, Nick Wehry

update Max Stanford has a video

Official results

1st 47.5 Nick Wehry
2nd 37 Max Stanford European record
3rd 29.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
4th 17.5 Greg Sines
5th 15 Dominic Mandato
5th 15 Jonathan Reed
7th 12 Garrett Brown
1st 10.5 Kelly Lewis
2nd 8.5 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
3rd 8.25 Sarah Qualle
4th 4.5 Kelly Murphy

Dom Mandato is doing a live video of tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH

Nick Wehry appeared on Fox 8 New Day Cleveland to promote the contest.

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Joey Chestnut ate 79 boneless wings in 5 minutes at last night's Syracuse Mets game, defeating a team of three amateurs who combined for 67.

June 5, 2025 at 5:25 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Syracuse | Permalink * Comments (2)

Jack Legath ate the Homewrecker Hot Dog in 2:34 at Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, WV to set the all time record for the 23 year old challenge.

June 1, 2025 at 8:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Hot Dog Eating Challenges, Jack Legath, West Virginia | Permalink * Comments (11)

Max Stanford is the guest on the new Food Challenge News podcast. Other recent episodes: Hendrika "The Punk Gardner" Guanz | Geoff Esper | Naader Reda

June 1, 2025 at 5:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Max Stanford, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments (5)

Joey Chestnut will do a boneless wing eatigg contest at the June 4 Syracuse Mets game.

May 31, 2025 at 5:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Syracuse | Permalink * Comments

Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle announced that he was withdrawing from the Creator Clash celebrity boxing event that was scheduled for June 28 in Tampa. It was originally announced that he would face Harley Morgenstein of Epic Meal Time, but his opponent withdrew earlier.

May 29, 2025 at 11:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle | Permalink * Comments (9)

Eric "Badlands" Booker is expected to appear on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent on NBC at 8pm Eastern. updateA video of Booker's appearance doing a hot sauce chug is online.

May 27, 2025 at 6:46 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eric "Badlands" Booker, Television | Permalink * Comments (12)

Juan Neave won the first prize of $1,000 in yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Mala Vida in Austin.

May 26, 2025 at 11:15 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Austin, Juan Neave, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Max Stanford ate 18 pies in 5 minutes to win yesterday's British Eating League pie eating contest at F.Cooke Bishop's Stortford.

May 26, 2025 at 8:56 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Hertfordshire, Max Stanford | Permalink * Comments (10)

updateJoey Chestnut ate 42 24 ounce containers of popcorn to set a record: TMZ | WIBQ The Rural King facebook has started a live video of today's popcorn record attempt in Terre Haute, IN

May 26, 2025 at 12:57 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Records, Terre Haute | Permalink * Comments

In Mr. Beast's latest video, "Professionals vs. Amateurs", Joey Chestnut faced off against four sumo wrestlers in a hot dog eating contest for a $100,000 donation to the winner's charity. (Joey's segment starts at 20:40).

May 26, 2025 at 1:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Charity Events, Joey Chestnut, Male Athletes, Videos | Permalink * Comments

Juan Neave won the first prize of $500 in Saturday's hot dog eating contest at Hot Dogs El Buda in Fort Worth, TX.

May 26, 2025 at 1:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas, Juan Neave, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

Joey Chestnut did an interview for Action Network about his attempt to break his popcorn eating record on Monday in Terre Haute, IN. He says he will be doing a hot dog eating contest somewhere on July 4, but he is not sure if it will be at Nathan's Famous. update Joey also did an interviews with ClutchPoints The Blast in which he says he thinks his return to Nathan's this year is unlikely.

May 23, 2025 at 7:03 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Terre Haute | Permalink * Comments (6)

2025 Smokeslam BBQ sandwich eating contest

May 17, 2025 at 5:35 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, James Webb, Memphis

Official results are on the MLE facebook page

1st 24 James Webb
2nd 23.5 Geoffrey Esper
3rd 21.5 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
4th 19.5 Nick Wehry
5th 15 Miki Sudo
6th 14 Radim Dvoracek
7th 12 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan first contest since July 2023
8th 10 Tanner Gray
9th 8.25 Nicholas Stahl
10th 6 Matthew Raible

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s SmokeSlam Eating Championship in Memphis, TN.

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Zermatt Neo and Pat Bertoletti attempted the famous Wanko Soba noodle bowl challenge while they were in Japan.

May 15, 2025 at 11:49 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Noodle Eating Challenges, Pat Bertoletti, Videos, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments (3)

On the Owls Nest BBQ Show, Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reach an agreement about competing in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest this year.

May 14, 2025 at 12:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Joey Chestnut | Permalink * Comments (4)

Geoff Esper wins Lake Compounce qualifier

May 10, 2025 at 4:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Contest Results, Geoff Esper, Hartford, Larell Marie Mele

update May 15 Jerome Burns has a video

Official results

1st 43 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 23 Jerome Burns
3rd 17 Brandon “The Titanium Jaw” Macey
4th 12 Crazy Legs Conti
5th 9.5 Myles Mylet
6th 9 Deane Redish
1st 12 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
2nd 8.5 Madison Barone
3rd 7 Julie Goldberg
4th 3.75 Julia Wang

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Joey Chestnut will attempt to set the popcorn record at a Rural King in Terre Haute, IN on Memorial Day, May 26.

May 7, 2025 at 12:00 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Records, Terre Haute | Permalink * Comments

The yelp page for the Los Angeles location of Stonie Bowls, Matt Stonie's restaurant focusing on poke bowl, has been updated to report that it has closed. All of the other locations appear to have closed according to UberEats. Stonie Bowls opened in 2022 as a "virtual restaurant" that only offered delivery and carryout.

May 4, 2025 at 7:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Matt Stonie | Permalink * Comments

Harley Morenstein of Epic Meal Time has withdrawn from his boxing match vs. Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle at Creator Clash 3, scheduled for June 28.

April 30, 2025 at 5:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kevin Strahle | Permalink * Comments

Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry will compete in a Cuban sandwich eating contest at cigar manufacturer J.C. Newman's Founder's Day celebration in Tampa on May 3.

April 30, 2025 at 1:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Tampa | Permalink * Comments

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