Raina Huang and Mo Mbengue finished a 15 pound pizza challenge at Big Mamma's and Papa's pizza in Glendale, CA to win a $1,500 prize. The offer is available until June 20.
Jeff's Donuts will hold a donut eating contest in Louisville on July 4 awarding $1,000 to the winner. Jack Legath is expected to defend his title.
The Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib Eating Championship will take place at Mystic Lake in Prior Lake, MN on July 26.
TMZ reports that Joey Chestnut is negotiating a return to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest next month. According to the article, Joey's relationship with Impossible Foods is no longer impeding his return. It is possible the deal has been terminated; Joey Chestnut has not made any videos or appearances for the plant-based meat company in 2025.
Rotary Sushi in Chicago will hold a sushi eating contest on June 28 awarding $300 to the winner.
Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers will hold a slider eating contest at the Scottsdale, AZ 4th of July Celebration awarding a $500 Amex gift card. Qualifiers will be held at its Phoenix area locations on June 21.

Shawnee, KS Nathan’s qualifier

update June 12 Argyle302 video Johnson County Post has a gallery

The Kansas City Star has a contest report. (Turn of JavaScript to bypass the paywall)

Facebook video

Official resulrs

1st 29.5 Radim Dvoracek continental European record
2nd 25 Cameron Meade
3rd 16.5 Peter “Dirty Pete” Ritter
4th 15 Seth Weisman
5th 14 Cody “Yourmancody” Dulaney
6th 13 Ryan Speer
7th 12 Jacom Carr
8th 9.75 Davis Bryant
1st 11.25 Jocelyn Young
2nd 7.5 Lisa Cowan
3rd 6 Kels Hunner
4th 5.5 Sydney Rogers

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Men’s Nathans contest on ESPN2, women’s not listed


The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men’s Nathan’s contest will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon. The women’s contest is not listed, but will probably be streaming only since ESPN2 will be showing First Take from 10am to noon and ESPN will broadcast Wimbledon.

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TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor.
The Providence Journal has a list of Rhode Island eating challenges.
Bartley Weaver has started a new competitive eating organization, the Extreme Eating Championshipts.

2025 Salvation Army donut eating championship

WUSA9 also has a live video and a news video

Official results

1st 64 James Webb
2nd 52 Nick Wehry
3rd 29 Noah Romoff
4th 28 Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman
5th 26.5 Steven Farlow
6th 11.75 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
7th 10.5 Karen Szala
8th 9 Mae Renmick
9th 6 Judah White
10th 5 Prudence DiBenedetto

James Webb is doing a livestream of today’s Salvation Army National Donut Day World Donut Eating Championship in Washington, DC.

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2025 Parma, OH Nathan’s qualifier

update Max Stanford has a video

Official results

1st 47.5 Nick Wehry
2nd 37 Max Stanford European record
3rd 29.5 Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas
4th 17.5 Greg Sines
5th 15 Dominic Mandato
5th 15 Jonathan Reed
7th 12 Garrett Brown
1st 10.5 Kelly Lewis
2nd 8.5 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
3rd 8.25 Sarah Qualle
4th 4.5 Kelly Murphy

Dom Mandato is doing a live video of tonight’s Nathan’s qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH

Nick Wehry appeared on Fox 8 New Day Cleveland to promote the contest.

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Joey Chestnut ate 79 boneless wings in 5 minutes at last night's Syracuse Mets game, defeating a team of three amateurs who combined for 67.
Villa Capri in Doylestown, PA will hold a pizza eating contest on June 7 awarding $200 to the winner.
Semora Kludy has started a youtube channel to complement her facebook page documenting her Michigan food challenges, Semora's Competitive Bites.
Nick Wehry announced that he expects to compete in Thursday night's Nathan's qualifier at Rib N Rock in Parma, OH along with Max Stanford Darrien Thomas, Dominic Mandato and Cherish Brown.
Stadium Swim at Circa Las Vegas will hold "Weenies & Bikinis" on July 4, an invitational women's hot dog eating contest that will award $2500/$1500/$1000 to the top 3.
Mackinaw City, MI will hold a wing eating contest on June 8 awarding a robot valued at $2500.
RIP John Brenkus, host of ESPN Sport Science. In 2014, he did a segment about the science of competitive eating.
Jack Legath ate the Homewrecker Hot Dog in 2:34 at Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Huntington, WV to set the all time record for the 23 year old challenge.
Frank Wach ate 9.5 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win yesterday's eating contest at the Windy City Hot Dog Fest.
Max Stanford is the guest on the new Food Challenge News podcast. Other recent episodes: Hendrika "The Punk Gardner" Guanz | Geoff Esper | Naader Reda
Vice Sports produced an Instagram video titled "The Dark Side of Competitive Eating" containing the Tim "Eater X" Janus quote: "Throwing up after the contest is a necessary part of the sport"
Joey Chestnut will do a boneless wing eatigg contest at the June 4 Syracuse Mets game.
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