Miki Sudo and Bob Shoudt have been announced as the American competitors at the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland on September 6.
Blood, Sweat & Cheers has a post on the exercise regimen of four competitive eaters.
Alicia Corso reports that Clark County (NV) Commissioners have recognized Miki Sudo by giving her an honorary day. update A picture of the ceremony
Jacob Kepler has a gallery of the pictures he took for an article about Miki Sudo in Mental Floss magazine.
Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle has a column mentioning judging Sonya Thomas in the 2014 women's Nathan's finals calling Miki Sudo's victory "one of the greatest upsets in competitive eating history". Sonya has never finished ahead of Miki Sudo.
2014 Hooters Wing Eating Contest
update July 24 The Las Vegas Review Journal has a contest report. The Las Vegas Sun has a gallery. TMZ has a post-contest interview with Joey Chestnut.
The top 5 according to Sarah Feldberg Full results
1) Joey Chestnut 182
2) Adrian Morgan 174
3) Matt Stonie
4) Juliet Lee
5) Miki Sudo 146
6) Michelle Lesco 142
7) Marcos Owens 140
8) Erik Denmark 132
8) Juan Rodriguez 132
10) Badlands Booker 118
11) Pablo Martinez 104
Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo appeared on 8 News Now this morning.
Miki Sudo did an interview on KNPR
This will be the first time Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie compete in a wing eating contest.
2014 women’s Nathan’s finals
Results Official top 3
Larell Marie has the top 6 (Full Results – July 8)
1) Miki Sudo 34 – ends 11 year streak for Sonya as top Coney Island woman
2) Sonya Thomas 27.75 – lowest July 4 total since 2003 debut
3) Michelle Lesco 27
4) Juliet Lee 23.5
5) Meredith Boxberger 18
6) Larell Marie 14
7) Carlene LeFevre 11
8) Neslie Ricasa 10
9) Mary Bowers, 9
10) Marlene Wigginton, 8.5
11) Nicole Pulig, 7.5
12) Nicole Rodriguez, 7
13) Val Bromann 3
Post Contest Coverage
- Asahi.com calls Miki Sudo a Japanese woman.
- USA Today report on women’s contest
- Cardboard Shell has a facebook gallery
- Broadway World gallery
Sonya Thomas offers congratulations to Miki Sudo on her web page.
A brief recap of the Sonya Thomas vs. Miki Sudo rivalry:
- From her IFOCE / MLE debut in June 2013 to April 2013, Sonya thomas maintained a winning streak against other female competiitve eaters for 118 months.
- After success in local Las Vegas eating contests and challenges, Miki Sudo debuted in Major League Eating at the 2013 Las Vegas qualifier. Her total of 40 hot dogs was the best ever for a Nathan’s debut in a 10 minute contest (and best overall since Kobayashi’s first USA contest in 2001)
- About a week before the 2013 Nathan’s finals, it is announced Miki Sudo will not compete. A Las Vegas Weekly interview from last month has more on her withdrawal.
- With Miki Sudo not competing in the 2013 women’s Nathan’s finals, Sonya Thomas wins the female competition for the third year in a row (and maintains an 11 year streak where she is the top performing woman on July 4).
- In subsequent contests, Miki Sudo would have success against Sonya Thomas, starting a winning streak which is currently at 8 competitions.
- In December 2013, Miki Sudo (#4) would be ranked ahead of Sonya Thomas (#5), ending a decade where she was the top woman in the IFOCE/MLE rankings
- Last month, Miki Sudo qualified for the Nathan’s finals. Her total of 40 hot dogs matched her amount from last year and made her the only woman to hit 40+ in the past 23 months. She is currently in New York City and will try to surpass that amount.
- According to MJP, Miki Sudo has gone from being an +120 underdog to a -150 favorite in online sports casinos.
Contest coverage roundup
- General
Val Bromann, who is also competing in the contest, has a contest preview
USA Today says the women’s contest might have the best drama - Sonya Thomas
WSJ.com video
Bloomberg.com video
Fiscal Times article
Washington.CBSLocal.com article - Miki Sudo
Mental Floss article
Agence France Press article claims Miki Sudo could dominate. (Miki claims a 10 contest streak vs. Sonya; it appears to be actually 8) - Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
Interview with Womens Health Mag
WGN TV interview - Mary Bowers
Dana Point Times article
Tailgate Fan has an interview with Miki Sudo, who says her post-competitive eating goal is to become the female Anthony Bourdain.
Las Vegas Weekly has a profile of Miki Sudo in which she recounts her absence from the women's Nathan's finals last year. Rich LeFevre also makes an appearance.
Miki Sudo repeats in Chicago Ribfest
update June 9 Val Bromann has a contest report & gallery
update June 7 DNAInfo has a contest report
Full Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Miki Sudo 4.8 lb in 8 minutes
2) Michelle Lesco 4.18
3) Erik Denmark 3.37
4) Jeff Butler 3.21
5) Juan Rodriquez 2.77
6) Sean Nichols 2.75
7) Andrew Kogutkiewicz 1.9
8) Nikki Rodriguez 0.77
The Northcenter chamber reports that Miki Sudo has repeated as champion. DNA Info has a report on yesterday’s amateur qualifier won by Sean Nichols.
The Sonoma Portal claims that Miki Sudo will compete in the Nathan's qualifer at Sonoma Raceway on June 22.
2014 Pork in the Park Wing War
update May 19 Rake & Herald has a contest report Part 1 | Part 2
gons041 has a video
update May 14 Crazy Legs Conti has a contest report for the Huffington Post
update May 13 Rebecca Tully has a video of the amateur contest Brian Seiken has a video of the professional competition and the weighing
update May 12 Kyle Hanner won the amateur contest with 58 wings in 5 minutes. Defending amateur champion Lauren Smith was 3rd w/44.
update DelMarvaNow has an article
Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
1) Joey Chestnut 220 wings
2) Adrian Morgan 186 wings
3) Michelle Lesco 166 wings
4) Miki Sudo 164 wings,first loss to another woman
5) Tim Janus 144
6) Sonya Thomas 142
7) Juliet Lee 133
8) Marcos Owens 127
9) Steve Hendry 123
10) Yasir Salem 97
11) Bill Myers 87
12) Crazy Legs Conti 68
13) Brian Seiken 59
Kyle Hanner reports that Joey Chestnut won with 220 wings.
In last year’s contest the winner of the 6 minute amateur contest, Lauren Smith ate almost as many wings (69) as the last place professional, Crazy Legs Conti, despite the 12 minute duration of that event.
In honor of Mother’s Day, the new poll asks who you think is the top mother in competitive eating history.
Crazy Legs Conti wins 2014 Sweet Corn Fiesta
update May 5 Michelle Lesco confirms she got 5th place w//3
Miki Sudo has a contest report
Crazy Legs Conti says Sudo & Shoudt got the original 2nd place money despite the tie and Erik Denmark got the 3rd place money despite finishing 4h
update April 30 In Crazy Legs Conti’s Huffington Post contest report claims Bob had a “Mt. Everest” of uneaten kernels which did not result in a deduction and compares himself to a sports dynasty after winning the contest for the 4th time in the past 7 years.
Merly at Mr. Food has a blog entry, a video of the end of the pro contest end and a video of the amateur contest
update 8:50 The Palm Beach Post has an article which does not mention the controversy or near-fight
update April 30 Cra
update 6:55 Bob Shoudt has posted the post-contest ears of two unnamed competitors: Eater 1 | Eater 2
update 4:20 George Shea has the top 3
1) Crazy Legs Conti 43 ears 46 pre-deduction
2T) Miki Sudo 42 47 pre-deduction
2T) Bob Shoudt 42 44 pre-deduction reportedly almost came to blows w/Conti
4) Erik Denmark 40 (via twitter) 43 pre-deduction
5?) Michelle Lesco 32? (results 5-7 from Josh Miller)
6?) Josh Miller 31?
7T?) Adrian Morgan 30?
7T?) Badlands Booker 30?
update 3:50 Crazy Legs Conti has been announced as the winner with 43 ears in 12 minutes.
update 3:30 The contest has started
The festival facebook has the full field for the contest. The Sun-Sentinel has a preview
Miki Sudo is not expected to defend her title at Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Las Vegas. She is listed as an entrant in the Houston qualifier May 3. update April 22 The Houston Chronicle column does not appear to be accurate; it claims the qualifier is Saturday and not May 3 and the contest does not appear on Miki Sudo's calendar.
The Daily Star and Daily Mail have articles about Miki Sudo's Cadbury Creme Egg video. update April 22 The photographer for one of the pictures in the article has a blog entry about the photo shoot.
A mp3 of Miki Sudo's interview on the Testicular Difficulties radio show yesterday is available. Tampa.CBSLocal.com also has audio of the appearance of Miki Sudo and Joey Chestnut before the ice cream eating contest.
Miki Sudo will appear on Testicular Difficulties, a radio show based in Windsor, Ontario tomorrow at 9 pm eastern.
In a preview of the May 17 Nathan's qualifier in St. Louis, George Shea predicts that Miki Sudo will exceed 50 hot dogs somewhere on the 2014 Nathan's circuit.
Shine.Yahoo.com has a segment from yesterday's Arsenio Hall Show of a wing eating contest substituted for Miki Sudo's scheduled appearance, who was allegedly sick after her flight to Los Angeles. update March 27 Examiner.com has an audience member report
ArsenioHall.com lists Miki Sudo as a guest on tonight's episode (syndicated, see the station finder page for times & channels)Â update Arsenio Hall has posted a request for competition for Miki who can get to his Los Angeles studio this afternoon.
Next week's schedule for The Arsenio Hall Show lists Miki Sudo appearing on the Tuesday, March 25 episode. (syndicated, check listings for times & stations)
The Rake & Herald has an interview with Miki Sudo where she questions the $25,000 listed for her competitive eating earnings in a recent Daily Mail article. Miki Sudo's eatfeats results list her career prizes at $24,699 ($22,750 in 2013) and do not include $5000 she received for winning the Stuffed challenge sponsored by the Tasted Channel.
Miki Sudo has started a blog at mikisudo.com She will appear on the Arsenio Hall show later this month after helping launch Taco in a Bag.
The new issue of the UK men's magazine ZOO (link probably not safe for work) has an article about Miki Sudo.
The Daily Mail has an article about Miki Sudo claiming that she is from New York. Â update Feb 27 AOL Money also has an article about Miki Sudo.
Loading ...