Bob Shoudt has replaced Stan "Bandana Eats" van Gorden as Joey Chestnut's partner in attempting "The Land of 10,000 Calories" 23.5 pound hot dog at next Friday's Saint Paul Saints game.
The Sheboygan Press has an article about the history of the sausage eating contest at the Brat Days festival, which will take place this year on August 2.
Dan Kennedy faced off against Jordan Mailata and Cam Jurgens of the Philadelphia Eagles in an Uncrustables eating contest. Jason Kelce served as coach.
Woodie's Flat in Chicago is holding a wing eating contest this week until August 3. Whoever eats the most wings in a 30 minute session will receive $500.
Rich and Carlene LeFevre are expected to appear on tonight's episode of "America's Got Talent" at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central on NBC. update Collider has a post about the LeFevres' appearance. They did not advance to the next round. A video of the appearance is on youtube.
The Schuyler Car & Corn Extravaganza will hold a corn eating contest on August 9 awarding $1,000 to the winner in Schuyler, NY.
A Piece of Pendleton in Pendleton, OR will hold hot dog eating contests on August 23 awarding a total of $5,000. The professional winner will receive $2500 and the amateur winner will get $600.
Joey Chestnut ate 14 banana dogs in 3 minutes to win a competition held at Saturday's Savannah Bananas game in Philadelphia. The contest was held on the field while gameplay was taking place.
2025 Great Midwest Ribfest
James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib Eating Championship in Prior Lake, MN.
Official results (12 minutes)
| 1st | 9.11 | James Webb | |
| 2nd | 2.78 | Andrew “The Bear” Kogutkiewicz | |
| 3rd | 2.37 | Matthew Raible | |
| 4th | 2.06 | Andrew Krawczyk | |
| 5th | 1.06 | Rene Rovtar | first MLE cash prize |
| 6th | 0.98 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 7th | 0.88 | Lily Krigelski | |
| 8th | 0.82 | Rick Lavigne |
Joey Chestnut and Stan "Bandana Eats" van Gorden will attempt the "Land of 10,000 Calories" challenge, a 6 foot hot dog weighing 23.5 pounds, at the August 8 St. Paul Saints game.
Iguana's in San Jose will be closing permanently tomorrow due to the retirement of its owners. The restaurant was featured in an episode of Man v Food in which Joey Chestnut attempted the five pound "Burritozilla" challenge. Matt Stonie made a video of his final Burritozilla attempt.
Takeru Kobayashi's shirt with signatures of the 2009 Nathan's Famous finalists was appraised at 300,000 Yen ($2031). Kobayashi has shaved his head.
DerekPR has uploaded a video about the Hwy 55 World Hamburger Eating Championship held in Raleigh, NC on May 20, 2017. The competitiors included Molly Schuyler, Dan Kennedy, Bob Shoudt, Adam "Beard Meats Food", Darron Breeden and Wayne Algenio.
Whiskey Garden in Fort Worth, TX will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 27 awarding $250 to the winner.
RIP Hulk Hogan. To promote the opening of his Pastamania restaurant at the Mall of America in 1995, the Hulkster faced off against Randy "Macho Man" Savage in a pasta eating contest
A trailer for "James Can Eat", a new documentary starring James Webb has been released. The film will be available on Amazon Prime and other platforms on August 22. I think James is the third competitive eater to have a documentary after "The Story of Furious Pete" and Crazy Legs Conti's "Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating". update July 26A clip of James discussing vomiting and the possibility of water intoxication is available.
Raina Huang will face off against a mystery Japanese eater, for a Japanese television show tomorrow at D+D Delight in San Jose.
Crossing Broad reports that a competitor choked and was hospitalized during Saturday's hot dog eating contest at Ducktown in Atlantic City held in conjunction with a Micro Wrestling card. EMT were fortunately able to prevent a fatality. (Reddit thread about the incident)
Joey Chestnut and 8 Barstool Sports personalities will attempt to consume a combined 99 hot dogs and beers at tonight's Chicago Cubs game. Joey will restrict himself solely to beverage consumption.
The Frankfort, IN Hot Dog Festival will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 26 awarding $1000 to the winner.
Jack Legath ate 30 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $1,000 in Saturday's ShuBrew hot dog eating contest at Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, PA.
THe New York Post has an article about a rotisserie chicken eating contest held at Roma Pizza in Brooklyn. Robert McGee ate a whole chicken in 6:44 to win the first prize of $500.
Dan Kennedy reports that he ate 37.25 corn dogs to win the first prize of $2,500. Molly Schuyler was runner up with 32.875.
Joe Menchetti ate 20 hot dogs to win the first prize of $500 in Thursday's Coney Island Classic in Fall River, MA.
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).
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