Chad "Froman" Jones won the first prize of $1000 at the Loaded Fries Throwdown at Meatstock in Hamilton, NZ. Nela Zisser was runner up. February 16, 2025 at 12:53 am by
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Miki Sudo's and Nick Wehry's eating benchmarks appear in Guinness' list of record-breaking couples. February 14, 2025 at 5:50 pm by
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The South China Morning Post has an article about Yuka Kinoshita's retirement from food challenge due to physical and mental health issues. Her youtube channel has over five million subscribers. February 11, 2025 at 7:55 am by
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Yuka Kinoshita, who has 5.24 million youtube subscribers, announced her retirement from competitive eating January 31, 2025 at 11:11 pm by
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Raina Huang will compete in a popcorn eating contest at Clinton Hall in New York City on February 21. Casey Webb of "Man v Food" will host. January 30, 2025 at 12:46 am by
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Business Insider has a mini-documentary about Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry's preparation for Norm's hotcake eating contest held in Las Vegas in November. January 26, 2025 at 8:25 am by
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Raina Huang announced that she surpassed one million subscribers to her youtube channel today. January 17, 2025 at 2:08 am by
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Tampa resident Miki Sudo, billed as an Upper East Side native, is included in a New York Post list of New Yorkers who broke a Guinness record in 2024. Her total of 51.5 hot dogs on July 4 was the all time best for a woman in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. January 5, 2025 at 12:54 am by
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Randy Santel's latest video concludes with a marriage proposal to Katina Eats Kilos DeJarnett, which she accepted. December 21, 2024 at 2:12 am by
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Nela Zisser appeared on The Morning Rumble podcast. She says she has put video production on hiatus due to working full time as a psychiatrist. She also called dunking hot dogs in water at
Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest disgusting. December 18, 2024 at 2:21 am by
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November 27, 2024 at 8:51 am by
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In the latest New Heights podcast, Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs and retired Philadelphia Eagle Jason Kelce discussed competitive eating near the start of the podcast at around the 13 minute mark. Jason talked about receiving a Guinness record for catching with a bun the longest hot dog thrown which followed with Travis talking about his fears of being forced to compete in a hot dog eating contest. The next topic was mayonnaise and Michelle Lesco’s mayonnaise record video was brought up and discussed. Here is the transcript from the competitive eating segment: Read the rest of this entry »
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Cherish "Five Pounds" Brown was the guest on the latest Food Challenge News podcast. She says she was inspired to start competitive eating by her high appetite while cutting weight to make a MMA class. The "Five Pounds" nickname did not originate with competitive eating, but was given to her by her weightlifting coach since she was increasing the weight she lifted by five pounds with each training session. Spice specialist Alexandria of the Never Better Club was the guest on the first podcast. November 24, 2024 at 9:07 am by
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"Battle of the Super Eaters", a 2019 Channel 4 documentary about UK competitive eating starring Leah Shutkever, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran and Kyle Gibson can be viewed on the I Love Docs youtube channel. November 22, 2024 at 2:33 am by
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ArabiaWeather has an article about Saudi food challenger Rana Matar based on a television interview. She has acquired over 380k subscribers to her tiktok page since starting it on October 4. November 12, 2024 at 1:36 pm by
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Emmy DeLuca won the first prize of two Baltimore Ravens tickets in Saturday's street corn eating contest at Banditos Tacos & Tequila in Nottingham, MD. November 5, 2024 at 2:56 pm by
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The Northwestern University student newspaper has a review of the play "Dogs" that premiered Friday at the Red Theater in Chicago. Most of the characters are competitors in a women's hot dog eating contest. November 4, 2024 at 5:22 pm by
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The play "Dogs", set at a women's hot dog eating contest, premiered last night at the Red Theater in Chicago. It is scheduled to run until November 24. November 2, 2024 at 10:31 am by
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A 2013 episode of "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy" in which Larry MCs a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas will be rerun Saturday on The Nest network at 4pm Eastern. Miki Sudo was one of the competitors. October 30, 2024 at 7:11 pm by
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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. October 4, 2024 at 8:53 am by
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Dan Kennedy announced that he and Molly Schuyler both ate 14 gyros in 14 minutes to tie for first place at the Big Greek Gyro eating contest at the Saints Constantine & Helen Green Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday. Mo Mbengue also competed. September 8, 2024 at 11:06 pm by
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Raina Huang will do a ramen eating contest at DTLA Ramen in Los Angeles on September 11. September 6, 2024 at 8:58 am by
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September 2, 2024 at 2:34 pm by
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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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In the undercards for "Unfinished Beef", Matt Stonie will face off against water polo player Max Irving and Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy in a 1 vs. 3 wing eating contest. Leah Shutkever will attempt to break the Guinness World record for watermelon eating. WWE wrestlers Rey Mysterio and Omos will present the championship to the winner of the main event. September 2, 2024 at 12:13 am by
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Molly Schuyler ate 47 hot dogs to defend her title at the Cricket Car Hop in Stratford, CT today. Dan Kennedy was runner up with 3646. (video) update Sept 6 CTPost has an article reporting Molly's prize was $2000. Robert "The Works" McGee was amateur winner. August 31, 2024 at 5:07 pm by
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August 23, 2024 at 2:19 pm by
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TVLine announces that there will be two undercard competitions for “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef” that will be streamed on Netflix from Las Vegas on September 2: Matt Stonie and Leah Shutkever will face off against opponents who have yet to be named. This will be Matt Stonie’s first public eating competition since a Draft Kings event in April 2021 and Leah Shutkever’s first public competition since the Highway 55 burger eating contest in June 2018. The broadcast co-hosts will be actor/comedian Rob Riggle and WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Garcia. Cari Champion and Chris Rose will be the announcers for the competitions.
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