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2026 Buffalo Wing Festival wing championship
Official results (12 minutes)
| 1st | 241 | $2,500.00 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | Westfield, IN | |
| 2nd | 228 | $1,250.00 | James Webb | Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| 3rd | 187 | $600.00 | Miki Sudo | Tampa, FL | |
| 4th | 180 | $400.00 | Jerome Burns | Danbury, CT | |
| 5th | 169 | $250.00 | Nick Wehry | Tampa, FL | |
| 6th | 157 | Geoffrey Esper | Oxford, MA | ||
| 7th | 151 | Max Stanford | Brixton, England, UK | ||
| 8th | 146 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | Orillia, ON, Canada | ||
| 9th | 86 | George Chiger | Pocono Pines, PA | ||
| 10th | 55 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | Selden, NY | ||
| 11th | 51 | William “Wild Bill” Myers | Breinigsville, PA |
James Webb is doing a live video.
2026 Buffalo Buffet Bowl
update Totals have been posted for the non-prize winners. Cherish Brown’s result of .39 lb. (6.24 oz) might be the lowest poundage ever in a weight-based MLE contest. Assuming a duration of 8:59, she ate less than 7/10 of an ounce per minute.
Official results, first to finish five pounds of Buffalo food items
| 1st | 5 | 4m12s | $1,000.00 | James Webb | Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| 2nd | 5 | 4m55s | $750.00 | Geoffrey Esper | Oxford, MA | |
| 3rd | 5 | 6m27s | $500.00 | Max Stanford | Brixton, England, UK | |
| 4th | 5 | 8m44s | $250.00 | Miki Sudo | Tampa, FL | |
| 5th | 5 | 8m59s | Nick Wehry | Tampa, FL | ||
| 6th | 4.72 | 8m59s | Jerome Burns | Danbury, CT | ||
| 7th | 1.69 | 8m59s | George Chiger | Pocono Pines, PA | ||
| 8th | 1.47 | 8m59s | Camille O’Brien | Jeffersonville, NY | ||
| 9th | 1.45 | 8m59s | William “Wild Bill” Myers | Breinigsville, PA | ||
| 10th | 0.88 | 8m59s | Rene Rovtar | Basking Ridge, NJ | ||
| 11th | 0.39 | 8m59s | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | Edon, OH | might be lowest poundage ever in a weight-based MLE contest |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Buffet Bowl eating contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival.
Joey Chestnut, Geoffrey Esper, James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry and Badlands Booker are expected to compete in the USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship at the Buffalo Wing Festival on Sunday.
Registration is open for the Buffalo Wing Festival contests: the Buffet Bowl on August 29 and the Wing It On! USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship on August 30.
Lloyd Taco Factory in Buffalo will hold a burrito eating contest on April 4 awarding $500 to the winner.
George Chiger ate 36 wings in five minutes to win a contest held at the Buffalo Convention Center on December 20. The competition had 499 participants which broke the Guinness World Record for the wing eating competition with the largest field size.
Over 500 people participated in a wing eating contest in Buffalo to set the record for the largest field size for a wing competition. The previous record was 397 entrants in a wing eating contest held at an Amazon Web Services convention in Las Vegas in 2018.
A wing eating contest will be held in Buffalo on December 20 that will attempt to receive Guinness World Record recognition as the largest wing eating competition.
La Nova will hold a Wing Bowl before the November 2 Buffalo Bills game awarding $1,000 to the winner.
2025 Buffalo Wingfest Wing Championship
updateOver 24 hours after the contest end, full (but unsorted) results have been posted on Instagram.
| 1st | 263.36 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 197.44 | Gideon Oji | |
| 3rd | 191.68 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 155.2 | Miki Sudo | |
| 5th | 154.88 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 6th | 145.6 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 7th | 100 | George Chiger | |
| 8th | 88 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 9th | 82.88 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 10th | 75.52 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 11th | 47.68 | Camille O’Brien |
James Webb is doing a livestream.
2025 Buffalo Buffet Bowl
Announced results with the full field from the introductions
| 1st | ? | James Webb | |
| 2nd | ? | Nick Wehry | |
| 3rd | ? | Gideon Oji | |
| ? | ? | George Chiger | |
| ? | ? | Camille O’Brien | |
| ? | ? | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| ? | ? | Rene Rovtar | |
| ? | ? | Marlon Thompson | |
| ? | ? | Frank Velocci |
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Buffalo Buffet Bowl.
Registration is open on majorleagueeating.com for Battle of the Bay: Wild Caught Blue Catfish Chowdown at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD on September 5. Regisration is also open for the Buffalo Buffet BOwl (august 30), Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest (August 31) and Smoke's Poutinerie eating contest in Toronto (September 6).
Lloyd Taco Factory in Buffalo will hold a burrito eating contest on April 3 awarding $500 to the winner.
Milk and Tea in Buffalo will hold a pho eating contest on March 15 awarding $350/$150/$50 to the top 3 finishers.
La Nova Wings will hold a Wing Bowl awarding $1000 to the winner before the Buffalo Bills game on November 17.
2024 US Chicken Wing Eating Championship
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.
Nick Wehry wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl
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
News 10 NBC has a video about Brandon "The Titanium Jaw" Macey, who is leaving his job as a producer at that station in Rochester, NY to move to Albany.
The Buffalo Bills will hold a wing eating contest before their September 17 game against the Las Vegas Raiders. The entrants selected will all receive two tickets to the game.
2023 Buffalo Wing Festival Championship
Full official results were posted about 24 hours after the contest ended:
| 1st | 276 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 240 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 3rd | 231 | Miki Sudo | |
| 4th | 220 | Nick Wehry | |
| 5th | 196 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 6th | 194 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 146 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 8th | 129 | George Chiger | |
| 9th | 128 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 10th | 119 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 11th | 57 | Mike Harris | |
| 12th | 40 | Crazy Legs Conti |
update James Webb’s total of 276 is being billed as a world record, but Geoff Esper ate 281 wings in 2019
George Shea has posted the top 4 on his twitter. The MLE twitter has yet to post any results.
1 James Webb 276
2 Joey Chestnut 240
3 Miki Sudo 231
4 Nick Wehry 220
The top 2: James Webb 276 in 12 minutes, Joey Chestnut 240
There was apparently controversy with the results
WGRZ is running a live video
FairfieldStags.com has an article about Mike Harris, who received his spot by being friends with the owner of contest sponsor Wing It On.
Miki Sudo wins Buffalo Buffet Bowl
The top 4 from today’s Buffet Bowl contest at the Buffalo Wing Festival. The competition is first to finish five pounds of Buffalo food items.
1 Miki Sudo 4:18, first contest victory since 2013
2 Joey Chestnut 5:17
3T Nick Wehry 5:28
3T Gideon Oji 5:28
2023 Buffalo Wing Fest fields
Joey Chestnut, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, James Webb, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti, Jim Reeves and Mike Harris are expected to compete in the Wing It On! USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship at the Buffalo Wing Fest September 3.
Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Gideon Oji, George Chiger, Ronnie Hartman, Badlands Booker, Crazy Leg Conti, Jim Reeves, Rene Rovtar and Cherish Brown are expected to compete in the Buffalo Buffet Bowl Eating Championship on September 2.
The pumpkin pie eating contest does not appear on the Great Pumpkin Farm's 2023 Fall Festival schedule. The competition on Clarence, NY had previously awarded $1,800.
Registration will open today for a Nathan's Famous qualifier to be held in Selsey, West Sussex, England on August 26. I think this will be the first Nathan's qualifier held outside the USA since a Beijing qualifier in 2011. Registration is now open for the Slopper championship at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on September 2, the Buffalo Buffet Bowl on September 2, the USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo on September 3 and the Lewisville, TX tamale contest on September 30.
Cherish "Five Pounds" Brown has posted a video of last month's pie eating contest at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence, NY.
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