Joey Chestnut will face off against teams of three at a gyro eating contest at Nick the Greek in San Diego on May 19. The winner will receive $1000.

May 15, 2026 at 7:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Prizes, San Diego, Team Contests, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (19)

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  1. anonymous said

    May 15, 2026 @ 10:02 am

    i am assuming this event is not sanctioned by MLE Back in the day MLE would have pulled him from the rankings and threw his ass out like they did with joe menchetti (or mench quit i think) stephanie torres dale boone la beast and us male Might be a few others but i dont recall

  2. Anonymous said

    May 15, 2026 @ 3:05 pm

    Randy’s latest interview. Sooooo…he’s YET AGAIN a “Couple years from retirement”. HAHAHAHAHAHH! He’s been 2 years away since 2021. What happened to the weight loss updates? Oh yeah, Mr. Yo Yo is back on the climb again gaining weight and he “has to” due to all the challenges. But, he has literally no control unless he’s on a “diet”. Randy continues to be FOS with respect to what his “plan” is. Randy is so addicted and in self-deception about food challenges that the only way he will actually retire is if he has some major health issue. And, even sadder to watch him struggle more often than not these days. It’s like his body is saying No more.

  3. Anonymous said

    May 16, 2026 @ 4:55 am

    3:05 – You are just jealous of his “atlas” physique. Start doing a fatceps pose before eating and you’ll maybe be as good as Randy some day!

  4. Randy Santel said (Registered June 2, 2010)

    May 16, 2026 @ 9:12 am

    In the wise words of Joey Chestnut, “I don’t stop eating until the job is done.”

  5. Anonymous said

    May 16, 2026 @ 10:00 am

    In the wise words of legendary poker great Doyle Brunson We don’t stop playing poker because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing

  6. Anonymous said

    May 16, 2026 @ 2:36 pm

    Randy what job exactly needs to be done at this pt? The data continues to pile up with the continued push of the “retirement.” You were a couple years away back in 2021. You can’t give up doing food challenges and will never retire from doing them. You will also never truly get down to a healthy bodyweight at this rate. It’s not like you haven’t supported this statement in the last years over and over again. The facts don’t lie.

  7. anonymous said

    May 16, 2026 @ 7:56 pm

    please its been since 9am this morn and the comment page is not updated

  8. Anonymous said

    May 17, 2026 @ 9:41 am

    Randy can absolutely quit doing food challenges. The problem is ensuring an adequate revenue stream so that he can quit comfortably. Social media doesn’t pay like other lines of work so you have to make sure there’s always something coming in. Part of that requires near continuous and consistent posting of new material. The goal for someone like Randy is to have the newer, less stressful types of content take off.

  9. Anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 5:45 am

    9:41 – Well, so far the facts are he cannot. He keeps pushing and pushing his “retirement from food challenges” year (note I said year not month). The market he seems to want to enter is super saturated if I am guessing based on what he states. Good luck to him with that. We shall see I guess. But, he has had a retirement date that keeps pushing out and now it’s a couple more years. It was a couple more years years ago!

  10. anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 9:55 am

    Lay off the guy hes not bothering anyone These comments are pointless Its a known fact he can put up some huge numbers which many of the naysayers on here would probably fall flat on their face if they attempted one of his challenges

  11. Anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 11:21 am

    There’s people who pester Randy with these same comments in his facebook comments. He actually swings back at some of them. He could simply block them, I would, but I guess he figures they are still watching, so f ’em. lol

  12. anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 12:42 pm

    hes making good money eating they are all jealous Last check though i notice nearly all muckbang eating challenge youtubers videos are not running ads but getting tons of views Think that maybe revenue is coming from other souces such as non reported sponsorships Stonie is sponsored thats a fact

  13. anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 8:56 pm

    i see old man shoudt is at it again eating unlimited shrimp fro 4hrs Prob eat till he croaks in the future I honestly believe thereis something mentally wrong with hin

  14. anonymous said

    May 18, 2026 @ 11:44 pm

    forget randy butiful brain sicken is the greatest man ever to grace the mecca of comp eating here is proof
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkn4yiJA5Y

  15. Anonymous said

    May 19, 2026 @ 4:38 am

    9:55 – Who exactly are you watching? Must not be Randy. He is sucking ass in the last year at minimum. Literally struggles probably 2/3 of the challenges.

    12:42 – The old “people are jealous” reply. Mmmmmk. You have no clue about who is commenting or their current financial status or any other status in life for that matter.

  16. Anonymous said

    May 19, 2026 @ 8:29 am

    8:56 – Blob is on the top of the dead pool list for eaters. Yeah, he’s a legend ya know. He has issues with that and frankly no one knows who he was/is. He coat road the Brazilian guy to even his current state of affairs on youtube.

  17. anonymous said

    May 19, 2026 @ 5:00 pm

    breaking news randy santel actually failed an eating challenge has to pay up $100 to the pho restaurant because he failed trying to complete 15lbs worth of pho noodles and beef

  18. anonymous said

    May 19, 2026 @ 5:22 pm

    i find it strange that over the past 20yrs there has only been two competitive eating websites out there that covered the sport in its entirety beautifulbrian.com and eatfeats Just proves that there is next to no interest in the sport

  19. anonymous said

    May 19, 2026 @ 6:06 pm

    Shoudt is still a sport yes he has cheap ways about him but he once treated me to a bunch of krystal burgers in missipi after he won the peanut butter and bannana sandwich title and treated me to a cheesesteak sandwich at jims in philly

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