Upcoming eating contests
eating challenges
(All Kentucky eating challenges and contests in database)
Zambrero in Florence, KY will hold a taco eating contest on September 21 awarding $1000 and a year of free burritos to the winner.
Jack Legath ate 114 donut holes in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in a contest held July 4 at Paristown in Louisville.
Paristown in Louisville will hold a donut hole eating contest on July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner.
GroveFest in St. Louis will hold a hot dog eating contest on October 7 awarding $100 to the winner.
Joey Chestnut will appear at the Newport, KY Hooters on August 29 and attempt to eat as many wings as possible in an hour. The event is to promote an all you can eat wing special available for $15.99.
Eli Lessig ate 82 donut holes in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 in the July 4 eating contest held at Paristown Point in Louisville.
Jeff's Donuts will hold a donut eating contest at Paristown in Louisville on July 4 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Joey Chestnut will attend the Bowling Green (KY) Hot Rods game on June 10. The team will be renamed the Hot Dogs for one night in his honor.
14 News reports Joey Chestnut was a celebrity judge and award presenter for the Backyard Cooking Competition at today's International Bar-B-Q Festival in Owensboro, KY. The event did not hold a mutton slider eating contest as in previous years.
Joey Chestnut will do a "Meat & Greet" and serve as a celebrity judge for the cooking competition at the Bar-B-Q Block Party in Owensboro, KY on May 14. The event will not hold a mutton sandwich eating contest as it did from 2017-2019
Bartley Weaver, IV ate 21 hot dogs in 10 minutes at a charity event in Cave City, KY to raise money to purchase food for schoolchildren.
Bartley Weaver IV won the Junior Nationals bodybuilding competition last weekend, giving him IFBB professional status.
The Owensboro (KY) International Bar-B-Q Festival World Mutton Sandwich-Eating Championship will not be held in 2021 to reduce crowd size. The event has been rebranded as the Bar-B-Q Block Party and is scheduled for May 8.
The Owensboro Times has an article about Bartley Weaver, IV competing in the Titan Games. The second season of the series produced and hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will premier tonight on NBC.
Kentucky.com has a profile of Bartley Weaver, IV, who will compete in NBC's Titan Games. He hopes to be the first person to have professional status in bodybuilding and competitive eating.
WNKY.com has an article about Bartley Weaver IV competing in "The Titan Games" on NBC. The series will debut May 25 and be hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
The International Bar-B-Q Festival scheduled for May 8 and 9 in Owensboro, KY has been cancelled and a mutton sandwich eating contest that was to have been held at that event has been removed from the MLE calendar. There are no plans to reschedule the festival on a later date this year.
Que Pasa in Bowling Green, KY will hold a taco eating contest on October 4 awarding $300/$200/$100.
Tin Roof in Louisville will hold a wing eating contest on September 30 awarding $200 to the winner.
2019 Mutton Glutton
| 1st | 52 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 43 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 31 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 4th | 25 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 5th | 24 | Gideon Oji | |
| 6th | 21 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 7th | 20 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 8th | 15 | Matt Hannan | |
| 9th | 12.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| DQ | ? | John Wells |
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Gideon Oji, Matt Hazzard, Derek Jacobs, Darrien Thomas and Bartley Weaver are expected to compete.
Hopcat will hold fry eating qualifiers at its 17 locations (mainly in the midwest, but also Port St. Lucie, FL) on January 19. Winners will receive a $500 prize package and the chance to compete for a $2000 prize in Ypsilanti, MI in July. The chain previously called its signature side dish used in the competition "crack fries", but will changing the name because it was considered insensitive to drug addicts.
Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark ate 55 wings in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in yesterday's Wing King Challenge at Lost River Pizza in Bowling Green, KY. Bartley Weaver IV ate 44 wings to take 2nd place. (video)
Lost River Pizza in Bowling Green, KY will hold a wing eating contest on November 23 awarding $500 to the winner.
2018 Mutton Glutton contest
update May 17 Matt Hazzard has a video.
update May 14 Messenger-Inquirer, TriStateHomePage and WEVV have articles. 14News has a pre-contest interview with Joey Chestnut
| 1st | 81 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | 1st win of 2018, new record |
| 2nd | 53 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 52.5 | Gideon Oji | |
| 4th | 31 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 5th | 27 | Matt “Hungry” Hazzard | |
| 6th | 18.5 | Matthew Raible | |
| 7th | 13 | Steve “Pi Guy” Martin | |
| 8th | 9.5 | Carpenter | |
| 9th | 9 | Dee “Princess Pi-Anna” Martin | |
| 9th | 9 | John Wells | |
| 11th | 8 | Coleman | |
| 11th | 8 | Ingleheart |
Joey Chestnut appearance at restaurant yesterday
It has been over 5 months since Joey Chestnut’s last MLE win at the St Elmos Shrimp cocktail contest in Indianapolis, which might be his longest victory drought since he ascended to the #1 ranking.
Messenger Inquirer reports that defending champion Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Gideon Oji and Derek Jacobs are expected to compete in the Owensboro International Bar-B-Q Festival World Mutton Sandwich-Eating Championship in Owensboro, KY Saturday.
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