Matt Stonie takes top spot in MLE top 50

Matt Stonie has taken the top spot in the MLE top 50 from Joey Chestnut. The switch appears to be the only change (cached version) ; Geoff Esper and Nela Zisser remain unranked. Joey took the top spot from Takeru Kobayashi on July 12, 2007, giving him a reign of 8 years and 2 days.

A championship parade will be held for Matt Stonie in San Jose on Friday.

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Trashploitation has a review of Eat it Up, a short film about rival competitive eating gangs.
Fiesta Mexicana will hold a jalapeno eating contest tonight in Topeka, KS that will reportedly award $5000 and a trip to San Antonio for the winner. update The purses are $500/$300/$200/$100 (via comment) update #2 Teddy Delacruz won the contest.
Registration is now open for All Pro Eating's first two events of 2015: the National Caribbean Food Eating Championships on August 16 at Heckscher State Park in Suffolk County NY (purse $700) and the National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship in Kennett Square, PA on September 12 (pro purse $1400 / amateur purse $400).
Dave "Tiger Wings & Things" Brunelli won tonight's crab fries eating contest at Chickie's & Pete's in Philadelphia. Dave "The Termite" Wood was the runner up.
Tim "Gravy" Brown appeared on GlobalNews.ca to talk about the start of Smoke's Poutinerie Cross-Canada tour in Nova Scotia.
St. Joe Frontier in St. Jospeh, MO will hold an amateur only hot dog eating contest on Saturday July 18 awarding $1000 to the winner.

Joey Chestnut wins Knoxville Hooters qualifier, Gideon Oji 2nd

Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Joey Chestnut 176 wings
2) Gideon Oji 155
3) Juliet Lee 145
4) Juan Rodriguez 112
5) Damien Boykin 103
6) Matt Raible 96
7) Eric “Badlands” Booker 94
8) Ronnie Hartman 90
9) “Wild” Bill Myers 70

Eric “Badlands” Booker appeared on WATE 6 this morning.

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Chronicle Live has an article claiming that eating challenges at northeast England restaurants are endangering diners' health.
Michael Jenkins has the results for yesterday's hot dog eating contest at Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach, FL. There was a three way tie for 1st after 3 minutes had elapsed. 1 Joe Menchetti (19 / 7 in 1 minute OT) 2T Michael Jenkins (17 / 5 in OT) 2T Mitchell Manresa (17 / 5 in OT) 4 Dale Boone 11

2015 Corinth, MS Slugburgers

updateWTVA has an article and video

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2

1) Joey Chestnut 33
2) Juan Rodriguez 23
3T) “Nasty” Nate Biller 13
3T) “Big Eater Mike” Mike Whities 13
5) Matthew Raible 11.25
6) “Wild” Bill Myers 10.5
7) Daniel Mennard 10
8) Steve Bennett 8
9) Jeff Stark 7.5
10) Alex “Moose” Perez 6
11) Brent Johnson 3.5
12) Taylor Coombs 3

Rob Schofield reports that Joey Chetnut won the contest and Juan Rodriguez was runner-up.

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Bob Shoudt ate 17 Buffalo dogs in five minutes to win an eating contest held at the Rising Sun Inn in Telford, PA on July 4. Dave "The Termite" Wood was the runner up.
Michael Diebold ate 18 hot dogs in 12 minutes to win his fourth consecutive eating contest at the Festival of Discovery in Greenwood, SC. Mark “Fro Hungry” Reboul was the runnner up.
Qualifying for Las Palapas' Okie Burrito eating contest starts today. The finals in San Antonio on August 29 will award $1400 ($1000 to the winner).
American Burger Co. will hold a 1.5 pound burger eating contest on August 6 in Charlotte awarding $500 to the winner. Entrants will need to qualify in Charlotte and Greenville, SC.
NCNewsOnline reports the field for tomorrow's slugburger eating contest in Corinth, MS includes Matt Stonie, Joey Chestnut, Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez, "Wild" Bill Myers, "Nasty" Nate Biller, Matthew Raible, Alex "The Moose" Perez. Mike "Big Eater Mike" Whities will make his MLE debut. update Clarion Ledger says Matt Stonie will not compete.
Srodek's Pierogi Eating Contest will award $1000 ($500 to winner) in Sterling Heights, MI on Sunday.
NZ Herald reports that Nela Zisser attempted to eat 100 salmon nigri sushi in record time today. The seventh place finisher in the women's Nathan's finals will resume her competitive eating career on July 18 at a noodle eating contest in Auckland.

MLE head to head results July 9, 2015

A list of cumulative head to head results over the last 365 days for people with 2 or more MLE results for that time period follows.

1 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 96.3% 180-7
2 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 95.4% 124-6
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 87.5% 21-3
4 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 82.3% 78-16-2
5 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 80% 48-12
6 “The Lovely” Juliet Lee (J Le) 69% 40-18
7 Miki Sudo (M Su) 68.9% 104-45-7
8 Geoffrey Esper (G Es) 68.2% 15-7
9 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) 66.8% 89-44-1
10 Marcos “The Monster” Owens (M Ow) 61.3% 45-28-2

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The new poll asks what competitive eating matchup you would most like to see. Joey Chestnut, Takeru Kobayashi, Molly Schuyler, Matt Stonie and Miki Sudo are the options.
The Festival of Discovery will hold a hot dog eating contest (South Carolina residents only) in Greenwood, SC Saturday awarding $750 ($500 to the winner).
SportsTVRating has the viewership numbers for Saturday's televised sports. The rating for the live Nathan's brpadcast on ESPN2 was 0.4 (highest of the day) and the audience was 1,129,000 (second to primetime NASCAR race). The combined audience for the 4 showings of the finals on July 4 ws 2.38 million.
TheDodo.com has a report on the animal rights protest after the conclusion of the men's Nathan's finals claiming that Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco and Tim "Eater X" Janus shoved some of the activists and took their signs.
KnoxNews.com reports that Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez, Eric "Badlands" Booker, "Wild" Bill Myers, Ronnie Hartman, Matthew Raible, Damien Boykin, and Gideon Oji are expect to compete in Sunday's Hooters qualifier in Knoxville. The restaurant will offer all you can eat wings on July 13 and 20.
Chickie's and Pete's in South Philly will hold a crab fries eating contest on Monday July 13 awarding a $1000 Visa gift card to the winner.
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