The Asian Night Market in Memphis will hold an eating contest on July 19 awarding $300 to the winner.
Harry Wallop wrote a column for The Times about his attempt to win the £5,000 prize at the Red Dog Saloon's burger eating contest.
During July, Jack's Cosmic Dogs in Mount Pleasant, SC will hold the Double Dog Challenge. At the end of the month, $1000 will be awarded to the diner who eats the most spicy hot dogs over a thirty minute session.
Restaurant Online reports JJ Da Lion ate 14 burgers in 10 minute to surpass Leah Shutkever's mark of 12 and claim the £5,000 prize for Red Dog Saloon's burger eating contest. The restaurant initially claimed that JJ was ineligible and balked at paying out the prize.
Roma Pizzeria in Brooklyn will hold a rotisserie chicken eating contest on July 20 awarding $500 to the winner.
Rory Finlay won the first prize of 3,000 Euros at yesterday's Supersonic Supernova Hamburger Eating Competition at Eddie Rocket's in Dublin, Ireland yesterday, perhaps the largest prize awarded in a European eating contest. updateExtra.ie has an article updateRSVP Live gas a gallery
PT's Tavern will hold an amateur hot wing eating contest in Henderson, NV on August 2 awarding $2500/$1000/$500 to the top three.
Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, PA will hold the ShuBrew hot dog eating contest on July 19 awarding $1000/$500/$250 to the top 3. Prizewinners must exceed 20 hot dogs to receive the full amount.
The corn dog eating contest will return to the California State Fair in Sacramento on July 19 after a one year absence. The top 5 will receive $2500/$2000/$1000/$500/$100. All entrants must participate in a qualifier on July 18.
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle returned to competitive eating at a pizza eating contest in Maplewood, NJ, his first competition in four years.
Newsday's LI Works has a video about Eric "Badlands" Booker.
The Ohio University web site has an article about Jack Legath, who is a student in the doctor of physical therapy program.
ESPN PR reports that an average of 1.62 million viewers watched the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4, the highest total since 2014.
Tacho Chinoz and Bar in Sterling, VA will hold a taco eating contest on July 26 awarding $500 to the winner. Raina Huang and former Washington Redskin Clinton Portis are expected to compete. Entrants need to submit a video.
BBC Hereford & Worcester has an interview with Leah Shutkever.
The OC Foodie & Fun Fest will hold a pizza eating contest in Santa Ana, CA on July 12 awarding $300 to the winner.
Fall River, MA will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 17 awarding $500 to the winner.
Raina Huang ate 65 wings in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 and a spot in the 2026 Wing Bowl in yesterday's eating contest at the Plaza in Las Vegas. update Moh Motion received the big check, so apparently he was
Mary Bowers announced her retirement from competitive eating after a 13 year career.
2025 Nathan’s men’s final
ESPN coverage of introductions and contest
| 1st | 70.5 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | |
| 2nd | 46.5 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | |
| 3rd | 45.5 | James Webb | |
| 4th | 43.875 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 5th | 41.75 | Nick Wehry | |
| 6th | 40 | Ricardo Corbucci | |
| 7th | 36.5 | Max Stanford | |
| 8th | 31.17 | Gideon Oji | |
| 9th | 30.5 | Radim Dvoracek | |
| 10th | 30 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 11th | 29.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 12th | 25 | George Chiger | |
| 13th | 23.5 | Jerome Burns | |
| 14th | 23 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 15th | 20.75 | Cameron Meade |
2025 Nathan’s Famous women’s finals
ESPN has the contest coverage on youtube
USA Today has an article about the disqualification of Madison Barone
| 1st | 33 | Miki Sudo | 11th women’s victory |
| 2nd | 22.75 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 3rd | 21.5 | Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee | |
| 4th | 16 | Tandra Childress | |
| 5th | 13.125 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 6th | 13 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 7th | 10 | Kelly Lewis | |
| 8th | 9 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 9th | 7.25 | Laura Beitel | |
| 9th | 7.25 | Isabeau Pearl Prettyman | |
| 11th | 6.5 | Camille O’Brien | |
| 12th | 6 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown |
Live Walking NYC has started a live video from Coney Island
Dutchmazz also plans to do a live video
Molly Schuyler sets Z-burger eating contest record
Fox 5 article and news video
Announced results from Fox 5 live video
1 Molly Schuyler 40 burgers, contest record
2 Dan Kennedy 39
3 Sean Yeager 27
4 David Brunelli 21
5 Robert McGee 18
ABC7 is doing a live video of today's "weigh-in" for Nathan's Famous competitors. update ABC's video has stopped, but the NY Posts's is going.
July 4 weekend contests awarding prizes
Here is a list of contests this weekend awarding prizes. Values in parentheses are gift cards or listed values of non-cash prizes.
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Eddie Rocket's in Dublin, Ireland will hold a Supernova burger eating contest on July 12 awarding €3,000 cash to the winner
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