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Las Vegas eating challenges
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Scott Watkins won the first prize of $1,000 in the spicy taco eating contest held November 11 at Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas
A qualifier for the 2026 Las Vegas Wing Bowl will be held at the Plaza Hotel & Casino on November 21. The winner will receive $500 and a spot in the February 7 contest.
Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas will hold a spicy taco eating contest on November 11 awarding $2,000 to the winner. Derek Hendrickson will MC.
Dan Kennedy ate 37 Protein Jams in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in today's Extreme Eating Championship event held at the Mr. Olympia Expo in Las Vegas.
Bartley Weaver's Extreme Eating Championships will hold a donut eating competition awarding $1,000 to the winner in conjunction with the Mr. Olympia Expo in Las Vegas on October 11. A qualifier will be held October 10. Dan Kennedy and Naader Reda are expected to compete.
Molly Schuyler will defend her Wing Bowl title in Las Vegas on February 7. Notorious B.O.B. will also compete and attempt to regain his 2017 title.
PT's Tavern will hold an amateur hot wing eating contest in Henderson, NV on August 2 awarding $2500/$1000/$500 to the top three.
Crossing Broad has an article about the Las Vegas Wing Bowl, which is leasing the trademark from the original contest held in Philadelphia. The February 7, 2026 competition at the Plaza will award $5000 to the winner.
The Plaza in Las Vegas will hold a wing eating contest on July 4 awarding $1,000 and a spot in its Wing Bowl on February 7, 2026 to the winner.
Stadium Swim at Circa Las Vegas will hold "Weenies & Bikinis" on July 4, an invitational women's hot dog eating contest that will award $2500/$1500/$1000 to the top 3.
Scott Eats Watkins won the first prize of $1,000 in the spicy taco eating contest at Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas on February 25. Jennifer won the female division.
Island Pacific will hold 3 lumpia eating contests in March: March 8 in Las Vegas, March 15 in Santa Clarita, CA and March 22 in Union City, CA. Competitions will have amateur and professional divisions and award up to $500.
James Webb attempted to break Matt Stonie's record of 4:10 for the Octuple Bypass Burger at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.
Mo Mbengue won the first prize of $300 in Saturday's eating contest at Trap Hibachi in Las Vegas. While in Las Vegas, he reportedly had an altercation with Stan "Bandana Eats" van Gorden at a UNLV restaurant
Mas Por Favor in Las Vegas will hold a spicy taco eating contest on February 25 awarding $1000 to the top male and female. Derek Hendrickson will host.
2025 Siegel’s Bagelmania eating contest
update The Las Vegas Review Journal has an article. Joey Chestnut says he has yet to reconcile with Nathan’s.
Full results are on Instagram. MLE appears to have abandoned X
| 1st | 15 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 14.5 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 3rd | 13.125 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 4th | 13 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 13 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 9 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 8.625 | Tanner Gray | |
| 8th | 7.375 | Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden | |
| 9th | 7.25 | George Chiger | |
| 10th | 4 | Mirza Selmic | |
| 11th | 3.75 | Naader “Freak8r” Reda | |
| 12th | 2 | Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado |
The field: Stan “Bandana Eats” van Gorden, Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzy” Salgado, Naader Reda, Tanner Gray, the 2024 MLE rookie of the year, Mike Zeldish ?, George Chiger, Gideon Oji, Nick Wehry, James Webb, Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut
Fro14 has started a livestream of today’s World Bagel Eating Championship at Siegel’s Bagelmania in Las Vegas.
Joey CHestnut appeared on News 3 Las Vegas to promote Saturday's Siegel's Bagemania World Bagel Eating Championship.
The Review Journal has an article about Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran's latest video in which he and Derek Hendrickson attempt an 18 pound pizza challenge at Super Mario's Pizza in Las Vegas.
Trap Hibachi will hold a hibachi eating contest in Las Vegas on February 15 awarding $300 to the winner.
Registration is now open for Siegel's Bagelmania World Bagel Eating Championship in Las Vegas on February 1.
Norms Hotcake Eating Championship
Full results (10 minutes)
| 1st | 46 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 2nd | 44 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 41 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 36.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 35.25 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 23.5 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 7th | 18.5 | Mirza “Snowman” Selmic | |
| 8th | 12.25 | Naader “Freak8r” Reda | |
| 9th | 11.5 | Sergio Reyes-Raya | |
| 10th | 11 | Tandra Childress | |
| 11th | 6 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown |
James Webb is running a livestream of today’s Norms Hotcake Eating Championship in Las Vegas.
Geoff Esper, Pat Bertoletti, James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Derek Hendrickson are expected to compete in the NORMS Las Vegas: Hotcake Eating Championship on November 9.
Miki Sudo will be competing in a pink donut eating contest during halftime of tonight's UNLV college football game in Las Vegas to raise awareness for breast cancer. (Cofield & Co interview) update Miki Sudo missed the contest with no explanation. Brobible has a post about her absence.
The Ringer on “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.
Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: 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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