The IL Hot Sauce Expo will hold a Carolina Reaper pepper eating contest in Joliet, IL July 23 awarding $1000 if the Guinness record is broken. The event will also hold 9 other spicy eating challenges over the weekend.
Jungly in Long Island City, NY will hold a hot wing eating contest July 23 awarding a pair of UNC Michael Jordan 1 shoes.
Boomtown Brewery in Los Angeles is holding an amateur only vegan hot dog eating contest awarding $500 to the winner.
Sean Yeager and Andrew Puhl are expected to compete in Saturday's ShuBrew hot dog eating contest in Zelienople, PA. The competition will award $1000 if the winning total exceeds 20 hot dogs.
Dountown Jeaux's in Houma, LA will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 19 awarding $200/$100/$50 to the top 3.
Gabriel Davison ate a MOAB challenge burger in about two minutes to win the first prize of $500 in Saturday's eating contest at B-52 Burgers and Brews in Lakeville, MN. Ethan Teske was runner up.
IndiaToday.com reports that Bipin Kumar Paswan, a 25 year old from Gopalganj in Bihar, passed away on Thursday after being challenged by his friends to eat 150 momos. Paswan's father believes that the dumplings were poisoned and the eating challenge was set up to murder his son.
Bristol Republic in Columbus, OH will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 20 awarding $500 to the winner.
Ocean Downs Casino in Berlin, MD will hold a hot dog eating contest on July 19 awarding $250 to the winner.
Registration will open today for a Nathan's Famous qualifier to be held in Selsey, West Sussex, England on August 26. I think this will be the first Nathan's qualifier held outside the USA since a Beijing qualifier in 2011. Registration is now open for the Slopper championship at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on September 2, the Buffalo Buffet Bowl on September 2, the USA Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo on September 3 and the Lewisville, TX tamale contest on September 30.
The broadcast of Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN2 was the most viewed program on July 4 despite being delayed for 2 hours by rain and lightning.
A hot dog eating contest awarding $200 to the winner will be held July 29 in Huntsville, AL.
Joey Chestnut will be participating in a mini-donut eating contest in Regina, SK on August 4 to raise money for the Regina Food Bank.
Scott "Scott Eats" Wagner ate 27 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win Saturday's eating contest in Pendleton, OR. Some people were not happy that a "professional" eater won the competition.
The Schuyler Corn Competition and Car Show will hold a corn eating contest in Schuyler, NY on August 12 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
CNN reports that a authorities in Yibin, China are investigating if a restaurant offering a 108 dumpling challenge is in violation of a law enacted in 2021 against food waste.
Dale Boone ate 13 hot dogs to win Sunday's hot dog eating contest at Red's Beer Garden in Atlanta.
MLE announced that the first qualifier of the 2023-24 circuit will take place in August in a seaside English town where Nathan's is available. Nathan's Famous UK has two restaurants in Southampton and Bournemouth. Beard Meats Food and Leah Shutkever (if she competes) will probably be the favorites. Kate Ovens will also have the opportunity for a qualifier near her Hampshire hometown.
Theo Malini produced a video (longer video) French food challenger Alan FoodChallenge a fake for spitting out food while recording his videos. (He apparently forgot to edit out his regurgitation). The criticism of Alan FoodChallenge has gone viral in French-language media with LeParisien, rtl.be and Independant producing articles about the alleged deception. Alan has responded by saying he will do a live uncut taco eating challenge on Sunday. updateSunday, Alan attempted to eat what he claimed were 5 GigaTacos, but could finish only about 1.5. The restaurant supplying the tacos said they were smaller XL tacos and not Gigatacos
B 52 Burgers and Brew in Lakeville, MN will hold an eating contest for its challenge burger on July 15 awarding $500 to the winner.
Joel Hansen won the Canton, TX hot dog eating contest for the fourth year in a row and claimed a $1,500 prize
The Spun has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi about his competitive eating career and his new partnership with Heinz on the "Hot Dogs are not a Contest" campaign. He closes the interview declaring himself the greatest competitive eater of all time.
Eli Lessig ate 82 donut holes in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 in the July 4 eating contest held at Paristown Point in Louisville.
Joey Chestnut wins 16th Nathan’s Famous title
The 2023 Nathan’s men’s contest has been cancelled due to lightning and rain. I am not sure why the 2020 contest setup could not be recreated in the second floor of Nathan’s Famous’ building and the competition held later today.
update Ronnie Hartman says the contest will start around 2pm eastern
| 1st | 62 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut | 16th title |
| 2nd | 49 | Geoffrey Esper | |
| 3rd | 47 | James Webb | UK Commonwealth record |
| 4th | 45 | Nick Wehry | |
| 4th | 41 | Bartley Weaver, IV | |
| 6th | 36 | Gideon Oji | |
| 7th | 29.75 | Zozan Paku Paku | |
| 8th | 29.5 | Max Suzuki | |
| 9th | 27.5 | Darrien “Cheesecurd” Thomas | |
| 10th | 27 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | |
| 11th | 26 | Adam “Beard Meats Food” Moran | |
| 12th | 25.75 | Derek Hendrickson | |
| 13th | 22 | Joey Przybylowicz | |
| 14th | 16 | Ronnie “MegaByte” Hartman | |
| 15th | 15 | Crazy Legs Conti |
2023 Nathan’s Famous women’s contest
Gigi’s Time is running a livestream on youtube Super Friends NYC is also doing a live stream
| 1st | 39.5 | Miki Sudo | |
| 2nd | 33.5 | Mayoi Ebihara | Japanese women’s record |
| 3rd | 24.25 | Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco | |
| 4th | 13.25 | Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele | |
| 5th | 11.5 | Katie Prettyman | |
| 6th | 10.5 | Jocelyn Young | |
| 7th | 9.75 | Kelly Wong | |
| 8th | 9 | Mary “I Love ’em HOT!” Bowers | |
| 9th | 7 | Rene Rovtar | |
| 10th | 6.5 | Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown | |
| 11th | 5.5 | Abby Horowitz | |
| 12th | 4.5 | Julie Goldberg | |
| 13th | 4.25 | Elizabeth Salgado | |
| 14th | 3.5 | Prudence DiBenedetto | |
| DQ | ? | Barbara LaBarge |
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