Time of India reports that a spicy chilli burger eating contest in Delhi, India resulted in a stomach rupture for the winner, Garv Gupta, that hospitalized him.
Registration is now open on MLE.com for the Snowbird Bratwurst Eating Championship in Snowbird, UT and the Chacho's World Taco Eating Championship in San Jose. Both contests will take place August 19.
An entrant in a spicy chilli pepper eating contest was hospitalized Saturday in a competition in Canberra, ACT, Australia. Despite the incident, a second contest was held today.
Joey Chestnut will start at second base in tonight's All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game at Marlins Park in Miami. His American League teammates include Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, former catcher Ivan Rodriguez, former Yankee Bernie Williams, former MLB OF Fred Lynn, Jamie Foxx, Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay, Jessica Mendoza of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, Michael Cudlitz of "The Walking Dead" and "Heavy D" from the "Diesel Brothers". The event will be televised tomorrow on ESPN.
Mark Lyle ate a contest record 25 hot dogs in 12 minutes to win the first prize of $500 at the Festival of Discovery in Greenwood, SC and break the five year streak of runner up Michael Diebold.
Sabretti's Hot Dogs in Hopatcong, NJ will hold a hot dog eating contest tomorrow awarding $1000.
KTNV did a segment about the Phozilla challenge at Pho 87 in Las Vegas that started Miki Sudo's competitive eating career.
Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo will do a hot dog eating exhibition at the MLB All Star Game FanFest in Miami Saturday July 8. The goal will be to establish a record for the most Nathan's Famous Quarter-Pound Hot Dogs eaten in five minutes.
The reboot for Man v Food hosted by Casey Webb will debut on August 7. The initial episode will feature New York City restaurants and the challenge site will be the Lunchbox in Staten Island. Other cities visited in the series include Milwaukee, Chicago, Houston, Billings, MT, Charleston, SC, Sleepy Hollow, NY, New Orleans, Portland, OR & Des Moines.
Chickie & Pete's will hold a crab fries eating contest in Philadelphia on July 13 awarding a $1000 Visa gift card to the winner.
Registration is open for the first two qualifiers of the Nathan's 2017-18 circuit: Des Moines on August 12 and Portland, OR on September 4. The Portland qualifier will be the first northwestern site on the Nathan's circuit since at least 2004.
Kevin Ross ate 14 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $500 in the July 4 hot dog eating contest at Janss Marketplace in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Top 3 from yesterday's burger eating contest held at the Dromedary Bar in Brooklyn: 1) Wayne Algenio 2) Joe Menchetti 3) Tim "Gravy" Brown. Jeremiah "El Toro" Jimenez also competed.
Ethan Teske ate 17 hot dogs in 5 minutes yesterday to take the first prize of $500 in a hot dog eating contest held in Hurricane, WV.
Results from Fish Tales hot dog eating contest in Ocean City, MD: 1) Bob Shoudt 32 (wins $1200) prize 2) Dave Brunelli 31 3) Stephen Hillegass 12
Michael Jenkins reports that Dale Boone ate 20 hot dogs to claim the first prize of $500 at Titled Kilt in Boca Raton, FL. Runner-up Nate Figueroa ate 18 and Michael Jenkins was 3rd with 15. Boone reportedly left enough debris to get billed as the "worlds biggest cheater". update Nate Figueroa has produced a video of the contest titled "#1 COMPETITIVE EATING "CHEATER" (DALE BOONE)"
2017 Nathan’s mens finals
| 1st | 72 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | record for finals or qualifier |
| 2nd | 60 | Carmen Cincotti | personal best, 4th person to hit 60 |
| 3rd | 48 | Matt “Megatoad” Stonie | |
| 4th | 44.5 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 5th | 38.5 | Darron Breeden | probably 2018 rookie of the year |
| 6th | 36 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 34 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 8th | 33 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 8th | 33 | Yasir Salem | |
| 10th | 29 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre | |
| 11th | 25 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | |
| 12th | 23 | Pablo Martinez | |
| 13th | 22.5 | Steve Hendry | |
| 14th | 22 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 14th | 22 | Josh Miller | |
| 14th | 22 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | |
| 17th | 20.5 | Derek Jacobs | |
| 18th | 20 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | |
| 18th | 20 | Juan “Hungry Saiyan” Neave | |
| 20th | 16 | Matt “Sweet Tooth” Cohen | |
| 21st | 14.5 | Pedram “In Jaws We Trust” Esmaeelzadeh |
ESPN3 has a camera focused on Joey Chestnut.
2017 Women’s Nathan’s Finals
Full results: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Meghan Drake did not compete. Daniella Gioia’s total was not given
| 1st | 41 | Miki Sudo | personal best |
| 2nd | 32 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | personal best, non-Asian women’s record (Schuler 31) |
| 3rd | 30 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | |
| 4th | 25 | “The Lovely” Juliet Lee | |
| 5th | 18 | Sophia Devita | |
| 6th | 17 | Meredith Boxberger | |
| 7th | 15 | Sarah “Unstoppable Bab” Reinecke | |
| 8th | 14 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 9th | 13 | Kassandra Zapata | |
| 10th | 12 | Carlene LeFevre | |
| 11th | ? | Daniella Gioia | |
| 12th | 8 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 12th | 8 | Liz McClurg | |
| 12th | 8 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 12th | 8 | Marlene Wigginton | |
| 16th | 7.75 | Stevie “Eats a Lot” Palmer | |
| 17th | 6 | Deborah Bethea | |
| 17th | 6 | Danielle Leppert-Simenauer |
ESPN could have truncated Sportscenter to televise the women’s contest or put it on in place of a rerun of the 2016 men’s contest on ESPN Classic.
Dale Boone won last night's hot dog eating contest held at Crowbar in Tampa.
According to the ESPN3 schedule, the broadcast of the Nathan's women's contest will start at 10:45 eastern. ESPN3 will also have cameras focused on Miki Sudo and Joey Chestnut when they compete. The men's contest will be live on ESPN2 starting at noon eastern.
2017 Z Burger eating contest
Unofficial results
1) Molly Schuyler 21 burgers
2) Dave Brunelli 19
3) Pat Bertoletti 16
4) Bob Shoudt 15
WUSA 9 has a Facebook Live video of today’s Z Burger eating contest in Washington, DC.
TV Overmind has a list of five entertaining competitive eating scenes from movies.
The field for the slugburger eating contest in Corinth, MS July 15 has been announced: Matt Stonie is expected to face defending champion Joey Chestnut. Other expected entrants are Geoff Esper, Badlands Booker, Matt Cohen, Nathan Biller, Matt Raible and Bill Myers.
2016-17 Nathan’s qualifier winners
Here is a list of all qualifier winners from the 2016-17 Nathan’s circuit.
2017 Naperville, IL Ribfest Nathan’s qualifier
update The Chicago Daily Herald has a contest report that says two women competed.
Full men’s results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
| 1st | 30.5 | Juan “more bite” Rodriguez | |
| 2nd | 16 | Eric Vernsten | |
| 3rd | 15 | Cody Malanowski | |
| 4th | 11.25 | Phillip Yang | |
| 5th | 9.5 | Derek Sanderson | |
| 6th | 9 | Dave Luthman | |
| 6th | 9 | Nick Needs | |
| 6th | 9 | Paul “The Douche” Zwiercan |
1W) Marlene Wigginton 11
The contest has started according to the festival twitter.
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