The New York Post has an interview with Prudence DiBenedetto about her last place finish in the 2018 Nathan's finals.
Telegram.com has an article about Geoff Esper.
Joey Chestnut vs. Geoff Esper results since Jan 1, 2018
Here are the head to head results for Joey Chestnut and Geoff Esper since Jan 1, 2018. They are tied at 8 victories each.
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CityPages has an article about last month's Fortune Bay World Wild Rice Hotdish Eating Championship in Tower, MN containing an interview with Ethan Teske.
Kobayashi vs. Joey Chestnut head to head results
Here are the results for Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut in the 15 contests they competed against each other. Kobayashi had the higher finish in 8 of the competitions.
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Men's Health has a joint interview with Derek Jacobs, Geoffrey Esper, Matt Hazzard, Michelle Lesco, Nick Wehry, Ronnie Hartman and Sophia DeVita about their training regimen for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
The Frosty Frog in Hilton Head Island, SC will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $300 to the top man and woman.
update The top 5 from Nick Smith video caption
Daily Mail article | wutshoodtv video
Tenleytown411 reports that Molly Schuyler defended her Z Burger title contest with a record 32 burgers eaten.
| 1st | 32 | Molly Schuyler | contest record |
| 2nd | 24 | Dan "killer" Kennedy | |
| 3rd | 20 | Andy Puhl | |
| 4th | 15 | David "Tiger Wings and Things" Brunelli | |
| 5th | 11 | "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti |
Daily Beast interviews Takeru Kobayashi
Daily Beast has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi where he expands on recent critical comments made on twitter about Joey Chestnut:
If you ask me, do I want to compete with him? Mmm, not necessarily. I don’t even want to be in the same room with him. The face he gives you in the movie—he says something different every time, so it’s difficult for me to trust that those are his words, or if they’re George Shea’s scripted words, and where his feelings are coming from. It’s stressful for me to compete against, much less be around, a person who has that kind of personality. So I just choose not to be around him.
and George Shea:
It’s a manipulation game for him. If I always have to wonder what the truth is, or that they’re going to manipulate the truth when I’m taking something so seriously—I can’t be around a human that I can’t trust.
Kobayashi also mentions an upcoming alternative competitive eating league. He will attend a watch party for The Good, The Bad, The Hungry tonight at Rochelle’s in Manhattan.
Empire Outlets in Staten Island will hold a cannoli eating contest on July 4 awarding a $500 gift card to Nordstrom Rack.
Delish.com has an article about the Nathan's womens contest titled "Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is a Sexist Sausage Fest" containing quotes from Larell Marie Mele, Sarah Reinecke, 2011 competitor Laura Leu and Katie Prettyman, who says her Nathan's qualifier performance was impeded by the MC conversing with her.
Takeru Kobayashi will do a 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Spectacular at Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn, the same site he has appeared at the previous 3 July 4s. The event will be a fundraiser for Immigrant Families Together.
Ken Hoffman has a column for CultureMap Houston about retiring from his role as a judge in the Nathan's finals.
Croissants in Myrtle Beach, SC will hold a cupcake eating contest on July 4 awarding a prize package including $500 to the winner.
Hopsmith in Nashville will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $250 to the winner.
Sanchez 915 in El Paso will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 3 awarding $500.
Marty Smith of ESPN did a podcast with Ronnie "Megabyte" Hartman.
Drift 82 in Patchogue, NY will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $250 to the winner.
Sandbar in Miami will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $250 to the winner.
The NY Post has an article titled "The wild, outrageous and downright disgusting secrets of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest". Tim Janus' claim of having "reversed" almost 10,000 times in his career is mentioned.
State Fare in Catonsville, MD will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 4 awarding $500 to the winner.
ESPNFrontRow.com announces Joey Chestnut will throw the first pitch at tomorrow's New York Mets game while eating a hot dog to promote the debut of The Good, The Bad, The Hungry on Tuesday.
Miki Sudo did an interview on WQAM on Wednesday. After criticizing the lack of ESPN coverage for the women's Nathan's finals, she was disconnected (around 7:15). Her conversation resumes around the 12:30.
2018-19 Nathan’s qualifier winners
A list of winners of qualifiers in the 2018-19 Nathan’s circuit follows:
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