The MLE facebook announces that Wingstop will hold a wing eating contest in Dallas on February 1. Registration opens tomorrow and the contest purse is $10,000. update Registration will open at 2pm eastern.

January 13, 2011 at 10:22 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Dallas | Permalink * Comments (22)

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  1. Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)

    January 13, 2011 @ 10:57 pm

    They seem to be missing at least $10,000. A truck, Harley, Champ rings, smokin hot nearly naked chicks, among 20,000 crazy bastards.

  2. wb said

    January 13, 2011 @ 11:11 pm

    the wrecking ball will definitely win this!! look out sonya, the wrecking ball is coming to win! BEWARE! 300 wings in 10 min.

  3. anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:14 am

    They do this all the time when a rival event steals their spotlight for the day

  4. anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:16 am

    I saw this on seiiken bits and pieces this past Monday

  5. Anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 3:16 am

    Free and easy first place money for Joey. Yawn ….

  6. Anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 3:34 am

    If the wings aren’t weighed Juliet will have a great shot at winning.

  7. anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

    A very childish move on the part of MLE. like sticking your mug into a camera at the last second when the picture was meant for someone else. I hope there is no media or reporters aroud to cover this snoozefest won by boring Joey Chestnut

  8. Anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 1:05 pm

    Some people are reading conspiracy into this whereas I think it is merely circumstance. A sponsor appeared, the purse of $10,000 is average and higher than many contests. How do you know Joey will be participating? And if Wingstop wants to piggyback onto Wingbowl, so what. Wingbowl has a huge following, true, but it is a once a year event which is far more like wrestling than most eating events. Their media coverage isn’t huge. It is a spectacle, eating wings is a sideshow.

  9. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    January 14, 2011 @ 1:18 pm

    The Wingstop contest is being held more in conjunction with the Super Bowl, which will take place in Dallas this year.

    If a live episode of Man V Food will be televised from the Super Bowl city this year, Wingstop competitors could possibly appear on that program, but I have heard no news about such an event.

  10. anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 2:21 pm

    Mere circumstance my ass. They hold these contests on the exact day another one is considered to them to be a threat . It has been done many times in the past. Either you are new to the circuit or you live in denial . I am sure another date beside Feb 1 could have been worked out but they insisted on it

  11. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    January 14, 2011 @ 2:45 pm

    Excellent information/ logical speculation/explanation. Thank you ojrifkin.

  12. Fantastic move said

    January 14, 2011 @ 5:05 pm

    Hey all you wing bowl fans. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the wing bowl was never more than a local story — except for the years when Joey and Sonya won. I know for a fact that national wire reporters were turned off by the wing bowl having witnessed drunks hurling racial slurs and bottles at Sonya and that opinion of the event remains in many newsrooms. When Angelo banned outside Philly region eaters and pros, he further sent a message to reporters that no newsworthy eating achievements would be made due to the exclusion of top echelon eaters. I mean as of now the best eater to qualify is Furious Pete, and he couldn’t even hold Kobi’s napkin. And, this Squibb kid, spare me. This MLE event is sure to gain national attention, at least as a side story to the ongoing weekly coverage of the Super Bowl in Dallas. Philly’s wing bowl has no news hook, since the Eagles are out of contention. In addition, since Wing Zone has Troy Aikman as its company spokesperson, his association with the event should draw even more media interest. So enjoy your racially insensitive, drunken, sexist wing bowl spectacular. No one else in the nation will really care except for those appalled by it.

  13. anonymous said

    January 14, 2011 @ 8:35 pm

    I bet fantastic move is one of the shea brothers

  14. Chino said

    January 15, 2011 @ 6:46 am

    Your can expect all the top guns being there for this one! It will be EPIC!!

  15. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    January 15, 2011 @ 6:48 am

    Well Well, The Wizard does it again, at 1:18 pm and always. OJRIFKIN RULES. The icing on the cake, Imagine!, George Shea has to respond to a reporter about the discrepancy of amount of money earned by his eaters versus the amount reported on EATFEATS. Don’t think George Shea reads here but Patrick Michels certainly does. GO OJ.

  16. Wing Zone -not said

    January 15, 2011 @ 8:24 am

    Doubtful that Fantastic move is one of the Sheas. They wouldn’t have gotten Wing Zone confused with Wingstop. Wingstop has Troy Aikman as a spokesman, not Wing Zone.

  17. Anonymous said

    January 15, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

    Chino maybe all the top guns won’t be there. Notorious Bob is not as good Joey, Sonya, or Pat in wings. Still he might grab fourth or fifth prize money, which might pay his travel.

  18. same ole buffalo said

    January 15, 2011 @ 5:06 pm

    anony 4:21 they will never weigh the wings in buffalo before the contest because it screws it up for the pre determined winner. Has anyone noticed after all these years that your tin foil tray is way heavier than some of the other opponents not to mention the pre arranged spot provided for you at the table?. No you stand here that is Joey spot or US Male or Sonya or whomever . Get my point?

  19. Anonymous said

    January 15, 2011 @ 6:21 pm

    Those predetermined winners sure are consistent.

  20. Cutter said (Registered November 9, 2010)

    January 17, 2011 @ 4:35 am

    All they have to do to rig the contest is make it harder to get the wing off the bone. So if some competitors are cooked more or sauced less the meat will be harder to eat off the bone. I am not saying anything is rigged but it doesn’t necessarily have to be a weight issue. For example, I was at a local qualifier recently where the average was in the mid teens in 5 minutes. O

  21. Cutter said (Registered November 9, 2010)

    January 17, 2011 @ 4:41 am

    n the other hand we have seen times when meat slides off the bone and is easy to swallow where one can virtually eat a wing in less than 10 seconds. I guess the question you have to ask is, are all the competitors wings prepared equally? I doubt that there is any wing conspiracy going on in MLE, but if there was it wouldn’t be hard to do. I have these inane observations because i enjoy wing challenges. It is just incredible how much the palpability of wing can vary from place to place.

    previous comment posted prematurely somehow, amazing how that happens, the competitors are not cooked but the competitors wings are 🙂

  22. Philly said

    February 5, 2011 @ 10:45 am

    Kobi to enter next years wingbowl. And watching people just eat is boring. Id rather watch it scanatilly clad women, beer, drunken fans, quasi celebrities, athletes and food eating than just food eating. Screw the IFOCE and national media. Wingbowl is like Mardi Gras, something everyone should experience once in there life. And like Mardi Gras, once will be enough for most people.

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