News archives

07-04-2026

Major League Eating
171 Madison Avenue, Suite 702, New York, NY 10016

Press Contact: Shea Communications LLC
Clare Hayden, cla...

06-19-2026

Major League Eating Press Contact: clare@sheacommunications.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Chinet® Brand to Provide Competition Plates for Annual Con...

06-19-2026

Nathan's Famous, Inc. One Jericho Plaza, Jericho, NY 11753

Major League Eating Press Contact: clare@sheacommunications.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Th...

06-16-2025

Annual Competition to be Held at Nathan's Flagship on July 4, 2025. JERICHO, N.Y., June 16, 2025 – Joey Chestnut will return to seek a new world reco...

05-01-2025

World’s Best Competitors Converge on Manor in Pursuit of $4,000 in Prize Money MANOR, TEXAS, April 2025--In a move that will inspire future generatio...

04-29-2025

Buy now and receive a FREE Buffalo Bison Baseball ticket

Buffalo, NY – April 29 – Tickets for the 24th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival Empowe...

03-03-2025

Prestigious Once-in-a-Decade Recognition Reasserts Special Relationship Between U.S. and UK

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his World Pan...

08-03-2023

Charles Hardy, a former New York City Corrections Officer and long-time commissioner of Major League Eating, has died after a battle with cancer. He w...

07-05-2023

2023 Men's Championship Results:

1. Chestnut - 62
2. Esper - 49
3. Webb - 47
4. Wehry - 45
5. Weaver - 41
6. Oji - 36
7. Zosan - 29.75
8. Su...

06-30-2023

The 2023 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest will return to the iconic Nathan’s Famous flagship restaurant at the corn...

06-23-2023

Key Moments in the History of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest The Mustard Yellow International Belt—worn only...

06-21-2023

The Men’s and Women's Championship will take place on Tuesday, July 4th, 2023, at the Original Nathan’s Famous location on the Corner of Surf and Stil...

07-04-2022

2022 Women's Championship Results 1. Miki Sudo 40 2. Michelle Lesco 26 3. Sarah Rodriguez 23.25 4. Larell Marie Mele 15 5. Katie Prettyman 13.75 ...

07-02-2022

ESPN has exclusive live broadcast rights from 10:45am to the conclusion of the event, expected to be at 1:05 pm ET. The women’s competition coverage w...

07-01-2022

The 2022 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest will return to the iconic Nathan’s Famous flagship restaurant at the corn...

06-28-2022

The Men’s and Women’s Championships will take place on Monday, July 4th, 2022, at the original Nathan’s Famous location—1310 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11...

06-07-2022

<bNew York, NY</b The 2022 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest will return to the iconic Nathan’s Famous flagship rest...

02-17-2022

Expanded Series of Mullet Contests Planned for 2022 NEW YORK, February 17, 2022 — Major League Eating (MLE) and USA Mullet Championships have announ...

06-30-2021

The Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, an American holiday tradition, will be held at Maimonides Park (formerly MCU ...

06-18-2021

Go to the link below to secure FREE tickets for the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Maimonides Park, 1904 Surf Avenue, Coney ...

05-29-2021

Coney Island’s Maimonides Park (formerly MCU) To Host Annual Competition on July 4, 2021

World Champion Joey Chestnut to Defend Title Against Geoffre...

01-19-2021

Propels Nation Forward From 7-Layer Dip to 8-Layer Dip

Resolves Conflict Over Dip’s Official Layers in Time for Big Game

(Bacon May Anchor New, 2...

10-25-2020

DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG) and Major League Eating have announced a series of three holiday eating contests including a Halloween candy steeplechase on...

07-04-2020

Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut and Miki Sudo, the number-one-ranked male and female competitive eaters in the world, shattered the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of Jul...

06-29-2020

The 2020 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest will be broadcast live at Noon Eastern on ESPN. The event will re-air on ...

06-16-2020

NATHAN’S FAMOUS TO HOLD 2020 FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG-EATING CONTEST

Non-Public Event in Coney Island to Raise Funds for Food Banks, Ho...

09-09-2019

Major League Eating is saddened to announce that Juliet Lee, a long-time member of Major League Eating and the number-17-ranked eater in the world, ha...

07-04-2019

Chestnut Knocks Down 71 HDBs in 10 Minutes While Sudo Eats 31 Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo today won the male and female divisions of the Nathan’s Fam...

07-04-2019

<bTHE CHAMPIONS DEFEND THEIR TITLES!</b

As is tradition, the Hot Dog Eating Champions of the world were crowned this July 4th, 2019, at the origina...

06-27-2019

Darrien Thomas Orillia, Ontario • 5’9”, 160 lbs, 20 y/o How He Got Here: Won Syracuse, NY, Qualifier with 19.25 Hot Dogs & Buns in 10 min • 27-Ranked ...

06-27-2019

Katherine Wong Boston, MA • 5’4”, 23 y/o How She Got Here: Won Syracuse, NY, Qualifier with 6 Hot Dogs & Buns in 10 min • Making her first appearance ...

06-27-2019

The Male and Female Championships will take place on Thursday, July 4th, 2019, beginning at 10:50am at the original Nathan’s Famous location—1310 Surf...

06-24-2019

Geoffrey Esper stood firm as powerful winds blew in from Long Island Sound over the Mattituck strawberry fields. Tents ripped from the ground, hats f...

06-24-2019

The 2019 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest will take place in Coney Island from 11 am to 1 pm on Thursday, July 4, 2...

10-01-2018

<bLewisville, TX!</b Mark the date, place and time: On September 29, 2018, on the steps of City Hall in Lewisville, TX, at 1.48pm, Darron Breeden was ...

10-01-2018

<bTrenton, NJ</b Let’s call it what it is: Utter dominance. Geoffrey Esper, the world’s 3-ranked eater, turned in the signature performance of his car...

09-24-2018

<bCincinnati, OH</b The streak continues. Joey Chestnut ate 65.5 Brats in 10 minutes to win the 2018 Oktoberfest Zinzinnati World Bratwurst-Eating Cha...

09-17-2018

<bWest Springfield, MA</bThe Big E began back in 1916. Something about that year and its ties to competitive eating. Feels right. And Something about ...

08-27-2018

<bSnowbird, UT</b Never before in his illustrious eating career had Geoffrey “Geoff” Esper faced down the mighty bratwurst in sanctioned competition. ...

08-19-2018

<bLos Angeles, CA</b Joey Chestnut won the 2018 Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship with a dominant 359-gyoza haul. One imagines a feeling o...

08-13-2018

<bWest Allis, WI!</b Take a bow, Darron Breeden. The man from Orange, VA, ate 5lb, 2oz of cheese curds over six minutes to win the Wisconsin State Fai...

08-06-2018

<bIndianapolis, IN</b Well, will you look at that? Geoffrey Esper ate 15.5 pints of ice cream in six minutes to claim the second annual World’s Ice Cr...

07-04-2018

<bCHESTNUT SETS NEW WORLD RECORD!</b

<bSUDO DEFENDS WOMEN'S TITLE!</b

The 2018 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Conte...

07-03-2018

<bCar</b Coming from the Belt Parkway West; get off at Exit 7B Ocean Parkway. Go onto Shore Parkway then make a left onto Ocean Parkway. Ocean Parkway...

07-03-2018

<bAnnual Competition in Coney Island on July 4, 2018</b

<bWorld Champion Joey Chestnut to Defend Title Against Carmen Cincotti</b

<bMiki Sudo to...

06-16-2018

<bMattituck, NY!</b When the history of strawberry shortcake is written, spare a chapter for the efforts of one Carmen Cincotti at the 2018 edition of...

05-27-2018

<bElk Horn, IA</b Geoffrey Esper ate 107 aebleskivers in eight minutes to set a new world record in the discipline at the 2018 Tivoli Fest World Æbles...

05-13-2018

<bOwensboro, KY</b If this were a simple one-paragraph write up about a recently completed sporting event, the first sentence would go like this: Joey...

04-23-2018

<bWestminster, CA</b Bow down and hope he don't hurt you. Geoffrey Esper. A world record 83 slices of John's Incredible Pizza Co. 10-inch pizza in 10 ...

03-12-2018

<bMiami, FL</b Eight down. Clue reads “A select part of a group superior to the rest.” Five letters. Starts with “E.” Those who witnessed Geoffrey Esp...

02-19-2018

<bOrlando, FL</b He wouldn't call it an upset, of course, for he is the Mutiny. But for the thousands of faithful basking under the blue umbrella sky ...

12-03-2017

<bIndianapolis, IN</b Joey Chestnut—1-ranked eater in the world, greatest eater of all-time, Californian, self-described "goofy" guy—made it five wins...

11-06-2017

<bTower, MN</b Hail, Esper! Geoffrey Esper—spell his first name with a J at your peril, people—ate 29 Fortune Bay Indian tacos in eight minutes to cla...

10-09-2017

<bElk Grove, CA</b The 2017 installment of the Elk Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship belonged to Geoffrey Esper. He a...

09-11-2017

<bLathrop, CA</b Joey Chestnut, the 1-ranked eater in the world, claimed the 2017 Dell’Osso Family Farm Baconfest World Bacon Eating Championship with...

08-28-2017

<bLos Angeles, CA</b Joey Chestnut won the 2017 edition of the Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship with a trademark display of powerhouse ea...

08-14-2017

<bHamburg, NY</b He is the King of Kale and his name is Gideon Oji. The greatest kale-eater in the history of the world consumed 22.5 16oz kale salads...

08-14-2017

<bNichols, NY</b Under black skies and a torrent of rain, Matt Stonie set a new World Chicken Spiedie-eating record by downing 20.5 chicken spiedies i...

08-14-2017

<bIndianapolis, IN</b Not going to lie: Didn’t see that one coming. And we are not talking about the fact that Miki Sudo set a new World Record with a...

07-02-2017

<bAnnual Competition in Coney Island on July 4, 2017</b

<bJoey Chestnut to Defend Title Against Matt Stonie</b

<bMiki Sudo to Battle Sonya Thoma...

05-29-2017

<bElk Horn, IA</b Matt Stonie ate 87 Æbleskiver in eight minutes at the First Annual Tivoli Fest World Æbleskiver Eating Championship to set a World R...

05-29-2017

<bFairmont, WV</b Major League Eating is proud to announce the date, place and time of Geoffrey Esper's first MLE world record-setting performance. Th...

05-07-2017

There is a new World Taco-Eating Record and it is this: 126 tacos in eight minutes. The record was set at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel World Taco Eati...

05-01-2017

<BWest Palm Beach, FL</B Well, that was something. Bad news for corn, good news for the history books, one could posit, and so it was as Carmen Cincot...

03-12-2017

<bMiami, FL</b Damas y caballeros, escucha me: Carmen "El Motín" Cincotti ate 158 Catalina croquetas to set a world record in the croqueta discipline....

02-20-2017

<bOrlando, FL</b Major League Eating opened its 2017 season of sanctioned eating championships in Orlando, FL, with the fifth annual installment of th...

12-21-2016

<b1. Chestnut Regains Mustard Yellow Belt</b Never doubt a champion. Joey Chestnut set a Coney Island record on the Fourth of July when he ate 70 Nat...

10-24-2016

<bTulsa, OK:</b Year ye, hear ye, hear ye: Carmen Cincotti, the 4-ranked eater in the world, ate 101 Siegi's bratwurst sausages in 10 minutes. In doin...

10-19-2016

More than 50 percent of Americans report that they have increased their consumption of alcoholic beverages as a result of the presidential election, a...

09-19-2016

Forty-one White Hut Cheeseburgs later, the first-ever White Hut World Cheeseburg Eating Championship At The Big E title belonged to Matt Stonie. In do...

09-19-2016

Guten tag, America. Guten tag, Welt. Let it be known that on September 17, 2016, Joey Chestnut once more proved that he is the Bratmeister. Which soun...

09-19-2016

<bOutrageous Event in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square to Feature Extraordinary, Interactive Fan Experiences</b

<bInsane Number of Dedicated Sponsors ...

08-29-2016

Call this one Matthew Stonie's biggest win of the year to date. And we add "to date" because his performance at the 2016 Tioga Downs World Chicken Spi...

08-25-2016

<bInsanely Entertaining, Internationally Acclaimed Competitive Eating Event to be held October 1st at Yonge-Dundas Square, the Heart of the City</b

...

08-22-2016

Winning is a habit. Which is why Matt Stonie likely feels relief at being top of the podium after eating 323 Day-Lee Foods Gyoza in 10 minutes to clai...

08-22-2016

He is the greatest eater in the history of mankind. He is the 1-ranked eater in the world. He is the Great One. He is also, as of 3.13pm Pacific on Sa...

07-12-2016

When the history of Zaria, Nigeria is written—and it will be written—spare a few sheets of paper and a quart of ink in celebration of that proud city'...

07-12-2016

It's all coming up Chestnut.

Joey Chestnut's comeback tour of 2016 pulled into Las Vegas, NV, for the fifth annual Hooters Worldwide Wing Eating C...

07-12-2016

Let's get the facts out of the way: Joey Chestnut, fresh off his crushing 2016 Nathan's Famous hot dog win and the 1-ranked eater in the world once mo...

07-05-2016

<bJOEY CHESTNUT REGAINS CONEY CROWN!</b

<bMIKI SUDO DEFENDS TITLE AGAINST SONYA THOMAS!</b

<bMen's Championship: Full Results!</b 1 Joey Chestn...

06-29-2016

<bAnnual Competition in Coney Island on July 4, 2016!</b

<bJoey Chestnut Seeks to Regain Title from Matt Stonie!</b

<bMiki Sudo to Defend Title ...

04-04-2016

One Peep? So innocent. So pure. So meek, perhaps. A quiet, sweet reminder of the Easter season's promise of renewal and new life in marshmallow form. ...

03-21-2016

The photos told the story and this old scribe knows that there's no prose that can compete with the camera when it comes to offering a précis of happe...

03-07-2016

Joey Chestnut, the 2-ranked eater in the world, continued his unbeaten 2016 at the Silver Slipper World Meat Pie Eating Championship by eating 23 6oz ...

12-23-2015

<b1. MLE Basks In The Year Of Stonie</b When the history of Major League Eating is written—and it will be written—the year 2015 will be stamped “STON...

12-06-2015

<bIndianapolis, IN</b There is no eater like the Great One, Joey Chestnut. And there is no shrimp cocktail like the St. Elmo Shrimp Cocktail. That is ...

11-24-2015

<bMashantucket, CT</b Let is be known that at the second annual Foxwoods World Turkey-Eating Championship Ms Miki Sudo—the 3-ranked eater in the world...

10-01-2015

THE ROLE OF PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR AT EATING CONTESTS

Goggles protect the eyes from hazards such as wind and water, and they're also very effective in ...

09-08-2015

<bBuffalo, NY</b Before the emcee announced first place at the 2015 edition of the U.S. National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship, Chestnut had begun ...

08-24-2015

That was intense..

So Tweeted one @MattStonie at 6:49PM on August 22, 2015. We will forgive him the grammatical error on his use of the double peri...

08-17-2015

By MLE's measure, the capital of the world is San Jose, CA, and its crown rests comfortably on the head of one Matt Stonie. Matt Stonie is the 1-ranke...

08-10-2015

Winning solves everything. Winning erases the dark past. Winning extends a pen and demands you write history on your terms. Winning is the only thing....

07-28-2015

Those who chose not to attend the 2015 Hooters Worldwide Wing Eating Championship Finals at Clearwater Beach, FL, chose to turn their backs on human a...

07-06-2015

<bMatt Stonie Victorious Over Joey Chestnut!</b

<bMiki Sudo Defended Title From Sonya Thomas!</b

Matt Stonie of San Jose, CA, won the 2015 Natha...

06-09-2015

<bAnnual Competition in Coney Island on July 4, 2015!</b

<bJoey Chestnut Faces Matt Stonie; Sonya Thomas Seeks to Regain Title from Miki Sudo!</b ...

03-18-2015

<bAnnual Circuit Expands to More Cities, New Venues </b

<bNew York, NY, March 18, 2015 </b -- Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has unveiled the official list ...

02-16-2015

<BWest Palm Beach, FL</B That Matthew "The Megatoad" Stonie won the inaugural Palm Beach Outlets World Birthday Cake-Eating Championship will not surp...

01-20-2015

Over the coming days, MajorLeagueEating.com will share some classic recipes that are a great fit for your big game party. By "big game" we mean the S...

01-20-2015

Couple recipes from fan bases that are always home during the Big Game.

Butt Fumble Apple Crumble

The Line Up:

Four peeled and sliced apples...

12-22-2014

The apex gurgitators of Major League Eating set 16 new World Records in 2014. Here's a breakdown of their heroic human achievements over the past 12 m...

12-08-2014

Start the year with a win. End the year with a win. Win as many as you can in the days and weeks and months in between. Do that year in, year out. Do ...

11-10-2014

Don’t call it an upset—Matthew “The Megatoad” Stonie was at his fast, unrelenting and brilliant best at the second annual World Twinkie Eating Champio...

11-06-2014

<b<a href="http://es.pn/1xdAbNG"CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE 2014 WORLD TWINKIE EATING CHAMPIONSHIP AT BALLY’S CASINO-TUNICA!</a</b

<i$5,000 Prize Purse...

11-05-2014

<i$5,000 Prize Purse on the Line in Second Annual Twinkie-Eating Contest Broadcast Live on ESPN3</i

<bNew York, November 6, 2014</b World Twinkie...

10-21-2014

<iMLE Alone Among Top Five Sports Leagues with its Pro Wagering Stance</i

<bNew York, October 21, 2014</b Major League Eating (MLE), the governing ...

08-31-2014

<b<a href="http://es.pn/1tACzML "CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE 2014 US NATIONAL BUFFALO WING-EATING CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE!</a</b

<bESPN3 to Carry Event Live;...

08-28-2014

<iJoey “Jaws” Chestnut polishes off 9lb 2.7oz of ribs in 12 minutes; Matt “Megatoad” Stonie finishes second with 8lb 3 oz pounds.</i

<bReno/Sparks...

08-18-2014

Records were made to be broken—so sayeth the tired sports journalist's cliché. This one was obliterated. Hadron Collider-style. Space stuff. Gone. Par...

08-09-2014

Let it be known that on August 7, 2014, Joey Chestnut—the 1-ranked eater in the world, the greatest eater who has ever lived, the reigning World Champ...

07-24-2014

And the world keeps turning. Another Championship event. Another title on the line. Another big prize purse up for grabs. And who but The One, Jaws, T...

07-08-2014

<bCHESTNUT THE GREAT FENDS OFF GALLANT STONIE!</b

<bSUDO CLAIMS HER FIRST LADIES' BELT!</b

<b<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvR2goi25U...

07-07-2014

July 7th, 2014: Joey Chestnut, the top eater in the world and winner of the July 4th Hot Dog Eating Championship, is set to battle Matt Stonie at The ...

06-30-2014

13. Val “Valkyrie” Bromann Chicago, IL 5’5”, 148 lbs, 33 y/o How She Got Here: Won Tunica, MS, Qualifier with 5.75 Hot Dogs & Buns in 10 min

• ...

06-30-2014

Sgt. Horacio Chanyau Fort Polk, LA 5’11”, 220 lbs, 28 y/o How He Got Here: Won Fort Lee, VA, Qualifier with 12 Hot Dogs & Buns in 10 min

• Winne...

06-20-2014

<b600,000 Hot Dogs Donated to Food Bank Since 2008</b

<bJericho, NY, June 27, 2013</b On July 4th, Nathan’s Famous will donate 100,000 of its signa...

05-19-2014

Matthew "The Megatoad" Stonie of San Jose, CA, ate 24 Niko Niko's Gyros on May 18, 2014, in Houston, TX, to set a new world gyro eating record.

So...

04-21-2014

<bThe Greatest Eaters In The World Return To Coney Island!</b

Following a 13-event qualifying circuit conducted throughout the United States during...

03-20-2014

<bCircuit Expands to More Cities, New Venues</b

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has unveiled the official list of sites that will host hot dog eating contest...

03-05-2014

<bWest Coast Drought Leads Major League Eating To Create First-Ever ‘Endangered Entrées’ List</b

<bLeague Designates Guacamole as ‘Endangered,’ Cit...

03-03-2014

<bIFOCE Research Division To Join Scientific Community Studying March Black Hole Event</b

<bGas cloud G2 to be consumed by black hole Sagittarius A...

02-26-2014

February 26, 2014

Mr. Taft Armandroff Observatory Director W. M. Keck Observatory 65-1120 Mamalahoa Hwy Kamuela, HI 96743

Dear Mr. Armandrof...

01-31-2014

<bInformation to Save Americans 116 Million Hours Annually</b

<bElusive Finding Compared to Higgs Boson by Competitive Eating Scientific Community<...

01-28-2014

You’ve read the stories countless thousands of times. “During the Super Bowl, America will eat 53 million pounds of avocado!” ‘If you laid the all the...

12-31-2013

<b10. Katz’s Delicatessen Trophy Wins Best Trophy</b No offense to the oversized novelty check, but the trophy awarded to Joey Chestnut for his winni...

12-09-2013

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut of San Jose, CA, the world's 1-ranked eater, ate 9.25lb of Shrimp Cocktail in eight minutes on Saturday, December 7, 2013, in Ind...

10-14-2013

Experience counts. As the final seconds loomed at the first-ever World Brain Eating Competition at Zombie Pub Crawl, Joey Chestnut, the 1-ranked eater...

10-14-2013

After equalling the current world chili eating record of two gallons of Ben's Chili Bowl chili in six minutes, two of MLE's greatest athletes squared ...

09-29-2013

Phantom Gourmet Food Fest welcomed eating fans to the first ever Yogurtland Frozen Yogurt eating Contest at Boston's Fenway Park today. After six min...

09-02-2013

Call it ladies' nite in Buffalo.

For the first time in the history of the sport, women have swept a major in the competitive eating circuit, winni...

07-25-2013

So much speculation. Capacity this, debris food that. Current princes and future kings. Lots has happened this week, but Joey Chestnut proved he's ...

07-23-2013

International tastemakers and influencers will shift their attention from London to Clearwater as the world's top eaters gather in Florida—along with ...

07-04-2013

<b<a href="http://youtu.be/vzBUl3fZnc"CLICK HERE</a for must-see video of the 2013 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Champio...

07-03-2013

<bMen's Field</b

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, 1 Tim “Eater X” Janus, 2 Matt “The Megatoad” Stonie, 4 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan, 6 Bob “The Notorious ...

07-03-2013

CONEY ISLAND: The demolition of the historic Coney Island Astrotower will not affect the 98th Annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot ...

07-01-2013

The greatest competitive eaters on earth will gather on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney Island on Thursday, July 4, 2013 to compete ...

06-14-2013

<bNathan’s July 4th Event Information:</b

The greatest competitive eaters on earth will gather on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney...

05-02-2013

<bStonie downs Chestnut in the Deep-fried Asparagus discipline. World in shock.</b

Ali/Frazier. Burr/Hamilton. Aiken/Studdard. Add Megatoad/Jaws to...

05-02-2013

Major League Eating, the world body that governs all stomach-centric sports, is in the exploratory phase of converting all existing records to the met...

03-18-2013

<bJoey “Jaws” Chestnut Seeks to Set New World Record</b

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has unveiled the official list of 12 cities to hold hot dog-eating co...

03-12-2013

<bWorld’s best wing eaters compete for dominance!</b

March 12, 2013 (ATLANTA, GA) Hooters of America, LLC, today announced the kick-off of its seco...

03-07-2013

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS KICKS OFF 2013 HOT DOG-EATING CIRCUIT ON BOARDWALK TO CELEBRATE OPENING OF CONEY ISLAND</b

<bConey Island In Full Swing Despite H...

01-18-2013

<bTHE HOOTERS WORLD WING EATING CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT IN METAIRIE, LA—ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, FEB 1, 2013—HAS BEEN POSTPONED</b

<bNEW DETAILS...

10-23-2012

Seven years ago yesterday:

JAWS Shatters GoldenPalace.net Record&8232; 10/22/2005

Competitive Eating phenom Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut continued his ...

10-15-2012

<b TWO MOUTHS. ONE HEART. A ROAD TRIP TO UNDERSTANDING</b

The history books shall record who ate what and who finished where in the drab gray of nu...

10-10-2012

<bThey are calling it the greatest upset in the history of sports—Tim “Eater X” Janus downed Joey Chestnut, and two gallons of chili, in the Ben’s Chi...

09-26-2012

Major League Eating, the world body that governs all stomach-centric sports, has indefinitely suspended all bacon-eating contests in reaction to an ex...

09-08-2012

There will be a classic Cannoli Contest celebrating the Festa Di San Gennaro in Little Italy, NYC on Thursday, September 13 at 2pm. This is a contest...

08-19-2012

<bJOEY "JAWS" CHESTNUT SETS NEW WORLD RECORD AT THE 6TH ANNUAL DAY-LEE FOODS WORLD GYOZA EATING CHAMPIONSHIP!</b

When the clock read 0:00, there wa...

07-26-2012

As the party raged in West Florida last night, some results came through a tad bumpy. Here is the accurate report:

Joey Jaws Chestnut downed 144 ...

07-20-2012

<bChampionships? The annals of MLE history are filled with the names of titans. After downing 30 Slugburgers in 10 minutes in Corinth, MS, on Saturday...

07-19-2012

<bJOEY CHESTNUT AND SONYA THOMAS TO CLASH AT HOOTERS WORLD WING-EATING CHAMPIONSHIP!</b

<b100-Pound Thomas Will Defend Wing-Eating Dominance Against ...

07-05-2012

<bJOEY CHESTNUT SECURES SIXTH NATHAN’S TITLE WITH 68 HOT DOGS, SONYA THOMAS DEVOURS 45 TO SET NEW WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD</b

<iConey Island, July 5, 2...

07-03-2012

11:25 am ET - <b<a href="http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index//id/509583/2012-nathan-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-women-championship"WOMEN'S WORLD CHA...

06-29-2012

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST</b

<u<b2012 COMPETITOR BIB SHEET – MEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP</b</u

<bJoey “...

06-29-2012

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST</b

<u<b2012 COMPETITOR BIB SHEET – WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP</u</b

<bSony...

06-26-2012

<bCONEY ISLAND SUCCESS PUSHES NATHAN’S JULY 4 CONTEST BACK TO TRADITIONAL 12 NOON START</b

<iPlans to Move Event to 3 pm Reversed Over Crowd Manag...

06-05-2012

<bSIGNALING POSSIBLE END TO ‘ANGRY BIRDS’ ERA, MLE AND MASTIFF LAUNCH NEW GAMING APP</b

<b<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/id526491265?mt=8/"CL...

05-24-2012

<bESPN Extends Agreement with Major League Eating to Televise Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Through 2017</b

<b<i2012 Contest to be Televised July...

05-03-2012

<bMLE Vault - May 3, 2004: A look back at Crazy Legs Conti and The Popcorn Sarcophagus</b

<b<a href="http://youtu.be/j-MiqetW2Q"Watch Crazy Legs Co...

04-10-2012

Chicken wing expert, Hooters of America, LLC, announced that it has engaged Major League Eating (MLE) to sanction and produce a circuit of wing-eating...

03-20-2012

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS ANNOUNCES 2012 QUALIFYING CIRCUIT FOR JULY FOURTH INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CHAMPIONSHIP</b

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has unveiled...

03-19-2012

The pages of history will report that on March 17, 2012 at the third annual TooJay’s World Class Corned Beef Eating Championships in Palm Beach Garden...

02-13-2012

<bCP BIGGEST EATER COMPETITION 2011-2012 GRAND FINALE – ASIA PACIFIC’S LARGEST-SCALE BIGGEST EATING COMPETITION SET SERIES OF NEW WORLD RECORDS & CROW...

02-01-2012

<iSam Barclay is in Bangkok, Thailand, nearly 10,000 miles away from his Miami Beach residence. With the CP Biggest Eater Competition 2011-12 nearing ...

01-24-2012

<iMajor League Eating recently caught up with Badlands Booker to chat about his new CD, Big Man Mentality, and more. Check it out on <b<a href="http:/...

01-19-2012

<iMLE recently caught up with The Big Sexy for a few thoughts on his career, Tim Tebow and his trademark cowboy hat...Follow him on twitter <b<a href=...

12-15-2011

<bMAJOR LEAGUE EATING OFFERS SERVICES TO SIR GRAHAM WATSON & EU COMMISSIONER</b

<iEating Contest To Settle Prune Dispute</i

NEW YORK, NY Decembe...

11-22-2011

Major League Eating continued its tradition of giving back this week by making a donation to the Food Bank for New York City. <iMLE GIVES</i is the ch...

11-21-2011

<bWHOLE TURKEY EAT-OFF: WORLD’S BEST FACE OFF IN WILD TURKEY® 81 EATING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP</b <i100-Pound Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas to Headline ...

11-02-2011

Three of the world’s top Major League Eaters and Singapore’s finest eaters stunned hundreds of spectators at Orchard Central on Saturday, October 22nd...

10-26-2011

While Joey Chestnut stays atop the competitive eating world, rising MLE stars made moves in the recently updated world rankings. Matt "megatoad" Stoni...

10-19-2011

<bTHE STAGE IS SET FOR THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN FOR THE TITLE OF CP BIGGEST EATER 2011-2012 SINGAPORE CHAMPION</b

Singapore is one step closer to find...

09-28-2011

Major League Eating will be touring Asia and the South Pacific with CP Foods this fall and winter for a five-event circuit as part of the CP Biggest E...

08-04-2011

For the second straight summer Major League Eating is off to Asia to entertain troops on U.S. Naval Bases on a tour hosted by NAVY Entertainment. The ...

07-07-2011

<bRecord-Setting Viewership for Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest</b

ESPN's telecast of the 2011 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July...

07-05-2011

<bJOEY CHESTNUT WINS FIFTH NATHAN’S TITLE WITH 62 HOT DOGS, SONYA THOMAS IS FIRST-EVER WOMEN’S HOT DOG EATING WORLD CHAMPION</b

Coney Island, July 5,...

07-02-2011

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST</b

<b<i2011 COMPETITOR BIB SHEET – WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP</b</i

<bSonya “The...

07-02-2011

<bBadlands Booker: A Pioneer of Fireworks and Food</b <iby Newbear Lesniewski</i

Thanksgiving has its turkeys. Christmas, its trees. And the offic...

07-02-2011

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST</b

<b<i2011 COMPETITOR BIB SHEET – MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP</b</i

<bJoey Chestnu...

07-01-2011

<bControversy to Coney: Big Brian and Crazy Legs</b by Newbear Lesniewski

If - borrowing from Crazy Legs Conti - the Concord Mills Mall food court...

07-01-2011

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS TO MAKE ANNUAL DONATION OF 100,000 HOT DOGS TO FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY</b

Nathan’s Famous has announced it will once again do...

07-01-2011

<bKey Moments in the History of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest</b

The bejeweled Mustard Yellow Internation...

06-28-2011

<bFOR MEDIA CREDENTIALS CONTACT ALEXIS SCHNEIDER AT <b212-352-8651</ or </b<a href="aschneider@sheacommunications.com"aschneider@sheacommunicat...

06-22-2011

<bSteph and Michelle: Small, Mighty</b <iBy Newbear Lesniewski</i

An alarm bell rings, setting off a landslide of anxiety. The popular kids rush t...

06-18-2011

Nathan's Famous held its first-ever qualifying contest in Beijing, China on Saturday, June 18th. Earning the title of Chinese National Hot Dog Eating ...

06-11-2011

<bRidin' the Gravy Train</b by Newbear Lesniewski

Think about the most arid, desert-like dry mouth you’ve ever experienced in your life. Now try t...

05-27-2011

The Official World Rankings have been updated as Major League Eating enters Memorial Day Weekend -- and it's peak season. No change at the top two spo...

05-20-2011

<bDavekos, Boston You're His Home</b By Newbear Lesniewski

Before getting on the horn with one of Boston’s favorite sons, prep work included my 27...

05-12-2011

<bJason Bernhardt: Salting Away Fate</b By Newbear Lesniewski

Peanut butter. And jelly. Macaroni. And cheese. Chips. And salsa.

Salt. And <str...

05-04-2011

The Acme Oyster Eating World Championship will return to the New Orleans on Sunday, June 5. Making its debut last year at the New Orleans Oyster Festi...

04-28-2011

<bHall Hunt Returneth</b by Newbear Lesniewski

Paint a mental picture of yourself as a child.

Don’t worry about staying inside the figurative ...

04-27-2011

<b<iWomen’s Purse to Match Men’s Purse at $20,000</i</b

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. announced that the prize purse for the first-ever women’s division co...

04-20-2011

<bNATHAN’S FAMOUS TO INTRODUCE A WOMEN’S DIVISION AT THE 2011 JULY FOURTH INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CHAMPIONSHIP</b

<iTwo Contests Will Occur at...

04-04-2011

MLE and Nathan's Famous will give the opportunity for American eaters to compete in Beijing on May 18. In what will be the first-ever qualifier held i...

03-31-2011

Major League Eating has officially announced a Wild Card seat for the upcoming Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Circuit. The competitor with the...

03-29-2011

Nathan's Famous, Inc. is readying for its 96th annual July Fourth International Hot Dog Eating Contest. In anticipation of this signature event, Nath...

03-25-2011

The La CosteñaFeel the Heat Jalapeno Eating Championship will return to Market Square in San Antonio on Sunday, May 1st with a bloated prize purse of ...

03-25-2011

Major League Eating has announced that the Niko Niko's World Gyro-Eating Championship has been moved to Sunday, May 15th at 2:00pm. The event was prev...

03-22-2011

Major League Eating will take the stage at Ribfest Chicago for the second straight year in 2011 to host RIBMANIA on Friday, June 10th. The 8-minute Ri...

03-14-2011

Today, Major League Eating donated $5,000 to Save the Children, an organization that is conducting relief efforts in Japan. MLE's $5,000 donation to ...

03-13-2011

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom will again play host to the World CheeseSteak Eating Championship on May 21. The Philly-area amusement park welcomed t...

03-03-2011

Rouses, Louisiana's Best supermarket, is hosting the second annual World Crawfish Eating Championship in New Orleans during the popular French Quarter...

02-01-2011

Due to inclement weather in Dallas, the Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship has been postponed until further notice. ...

01-21-2011

The TooJay's World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship just got richer...a lot richer. MLE has announced that TooJay's Gourmet Deli and National Del...

01-19-2011

Four events on the 2011 MLE Circuit have been announced on the events page of IFOCE.com.

The Fat Tuesday King Cake Eating Championship @ Showboat ...

01-14-2011

Major League Eating will head to Dallas on February 1st when it joins with Wingstop to host the Wingstop World Wing-Eating Championship. A hefty $10,0...

01-04-2011

2010 proved to be a hearty year in more ways than one for Joey Chestnut who earned a record-setting $218,500 through Major League Eating prize money, ...

11-10-2010

MLE is kicking it's 2011 season off on January 8th with the 2nd annual Isle Biloxi PB&B Sandwich Eating World Championship! The event is a tribute to ...

10-22-2010

Due to unexpected maintenance on IFOCE.com, registration for the Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship will now open up at 2:00pm EST today...

10-22-2010

Pat Bertoletti is back as the 2-ranked eater in the world, taking over the spot held by Bob "Notorious B.O.B." Shoudt for the past six months. Since M...

10-21-2010

The 2nd Annual Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship is set for noon on Sunday, November 7th at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Veg...

10-14-2010

The 2010 Jimmy John's Freaky Fast Sandwich Makers vs Eaters Contest Series will come to a close in dramatic fashion on Saturday, November 13th before ...

10-08-2010

Fire up those taste buds because Major League Eating will head to Jake Melnick's Corner Tap in Chicago on Thursday, November 11 for the Jake Melnick's...

09-28-2010

The Isle of Capri Casino properties will hold their eighth and final contest of the year on Saturday, November 6 in Bettendorf, IA. Maid-Rite loose me...

09-13-2010

This year will mark the 84th Annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy. More than a million people attend this festival every year, which runs for 1...

09-09-2010

Major League Eating spent Labor Day weekend entertaining US troops stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on yet another MLE tour hosted by NAVY Entertainm...

09-07-2010

The Pepto World Bratwurst Eating Championship will take place on Saturday, September 18th from North America's largest Oktoberfest celebration in Cinc...

09-07-2010

The Isle of Capri Casinos will host their seventh eating championship of the year on Saturday, October 16th when Lady Luck Caruthersville hosts the Wo...

09-02-2010

<bWorld No.1 Joey Chestnut Regains Rib Eating Title at the 22nd Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off</b

Joey Chestnut, the world’s No.1-ra...

08-16-2010

The Upper Crust World Pizza Eating Championship will return to Boston's Phantom Gourmet Food Festival on Saturday, September 25th. Last year, Philly's...

08-16-2010

The John Ascuaga's Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championship is set for Wednesday, September 1 at 6:00pm! The event, now in its fifth year...

08-16-2010

The Jimmy John's Freaky Fast Sandwich Makers finally met their match at Denver's Mile High Music Festival, suffering their first ever loss at the hand...

08-15-2010

Joey Chestnut fought off a field of five challengers eating as a team at the Pepto Bismol Ice Cream Eating Contest in Austin, TX. Chestnut downed 1.2...

08-10-2010

Major League Eating will return to Old Town Lewisville, Texas and its 2010 Western Days Festival for the 6th Annual World Tamale Eating Championship o...

08-05-2010

<bPepto-Bismol® Sponsors Tour to Remind Consumers that the Stomach Aid Has Them Covered This Summer</b

Pepto-Bismol, the "un"-official stomach reme...

08-05-2010

Major League Eating is off to entertain troops on U.S. Naval Bases in Japan on a tour hosted by NAVY Entertainment. The two week trip will consist of ...

07-29-2010

The National Buffalo Wing Festival is set for Labor Day Weekend (Sept 4-5) and with it comes the annual Buffet Bowl Eating Championship and U.S. Buffa...

07-23-2010

Patrick Bertoletti downed 38 Mars Bars in five minutes to win the Red Faction Mars Bar Eating Championship at Comic Con in San Diego. The event pitte...

07-12-2010

Just a week after capturing his fourth straight July 4th hot dog eating championship, Joey Chestnut ate 9.5 lbs of ribs at Chinook Winds to win his si...

07-06-2010

<bThe Taco Bell Why Pay More Challenge begins for the benefit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico</b

The Why Pay More Challenge from Taco Bell...

07-05-2010

Statement of Major League Eating on the arrest of Takeru Kobayashi:

"Takeru Kobayashi's actions at the Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island were inappro...

07-04-2010

Number-one-ranked eater Joey Chestnut won his fourth straight title by winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog-Eating Contest in Coney Isla...

07-02-2010

As it has done for years, Nathan’s Famous will donate 100,000 of its signature world famous beef hot dogs to a hunger relief charity during the procee...

07-01-2010

Are you one the thousands of fans who will hop on the subway this Sunday to ring in Independence Day at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eat...

07-01-2010

For those in front of a computer on July 4th, <b<a href="http://espn.go.com/espn3/index?id=16061"ESPN3.com</a</b has you covered with its live broadca...

06-30-2010

The first-ever cross-gender, cross-species eating contest will take place when three female Ringling Bros. elephants weighing nearly 9,000 pounds will...

06-29-2010

<bPepto-Bismol Named First-Ever Stomach Remedy Sponsor of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest</b

<iPepto-Bismol Has Professional Competitors - and Amer...

06-29-2010

<bOLD NAVY NAMED OFFICIAL RETAILER OF 2010 NATHAN'S FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST</b

<iCommemorative Shirt to be Sold ...

06-28-2010

“Takeru Kobayashi is currently not scheduled to compete in the 2010 Nathan's Famous July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest. In recent weeks, Major League...

06-26-2010

With three contests today, the final table is set for Coney Island. The Nathan's Famous loyal will welcome Splashdown Park Champion Juliet Lee (28.5 ...

06-15-2010

Major League Eating has announced that vuvuzelas will be strictly prohibited at the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship, schedul...

06-14-2010

Yes, we are still in the middle of hot dog season, but that's no reason to stop from looking ahead in the MLE Circuit. Two Jimmy John's Freaky Fast Sa...

06-07-2010

The greatest competitive eaters on earth will gather on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney Island at high noon on Sunday, July 4, 2010 ...

05-27-2010

The controversy over who is the world pizza-eating champion will finally be resolved on June 5, when Joey “Jaws” Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti, two of t...

05-19-2010

Nathan's Famous will hold two Official Hot Dog Eating Contests in June featuring men and women of the armed services. The contests, produced in conjun...

05-19-2010

Nathan's Famous has announced the addition of an official hot dog eating contest qualifier for its 2010 Circuit. WinStar Casino, located in Thackervil...

05-18-2010

Major League Eating will return to Chinook Winds Casino Resort on July 10-11 for its annual Smokin' at the Ocean BBQ & Brewfest. Chinook Winds is alwa...

05-17-2010

At 11:40AM on Saturday, May 15, a silver sports car pulled into the expansive parking lot of Junction Lanes in Newnan, Georgia. Behind the wheel was ...

05-12-2010

The Acme Oyster Eating World Championship is scheduled or June 6, 2010 at the New Orleans Oyster Festival. Always a favorite among Major League Eaters...

05-09-2010

Joey Chestnut beat Takeru Kobayashi in the CP Biggest Eater Competition in Singapore Sunday afternoon. Joey ate 380 shrimp wontons (76 bowls of 5) to ...

05-03-2010

On Sunday, May 9th, CP Foods will host the 2010 CP Biggest Eater Competition featuring CP's Shrimp Wontons. In the competition Joey Chestnut will face...

05-03-2010

Major League Eating will return to Peter's Clam Bar in Island Park, NY on Memorial Day, May 31, for the 2nd Annual World Cherrystone Clam Eating Champ...

05-02-2010

MLE's Philly-based eaters, including newly appointed 2-ranked Bob Shoudt, tried their best to keep the CheeseSteak title in it's home state...Instead,...

04-30-2010

Major League Eating has released updated World Rankings and with it comes some jockeying at the top. While Joey Chestnut retained the top spot, the "N...

04-20-2010

Add another victory to the trademark trench coat -- Cookie Jarvis was declared cancer free today after treatment for thyroid cancer.

Jarvis, the f...

04-15-2010

Major League Eating will head to Chicago on Friday, June 11th to kick-off the opening day of Ribfest-Chicago with <iRib-Mania - Ribfest-Chicago's Prof...

04-12-2010

Major League Eating will again team up with Jimmy John’s in 2010 for a series of “Freaky Fast Sandwich Making & Eating Contests." Five contests will b...

04-09-2010

Major League Eating has officially announced a Wild Card seat for the upcoming Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Circuit. The competitor with the...

04-08-2010

The prize purse for the National Sweet Corn Eating Championship at Sweet Corn Fiesta in West Palm Beach, FL has been officially increased from $2,250 ...

04-06-2010

The contest pages have been posted for the twelve Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifiers for the 2010 Circuit. Registration will open on IF...

03-31-2010

In a landmark announcement, Major League Eating has stated that it will sanction an Australian circuit of “Sports Slurping” in association with 7-Elev...

03-30-2010

This summer will mark the 95th year of the Nathan’s Famous July Fourth International Hot Dog Eating Contest, an annual event that’s become part of Ame...

03-25-2010

Major League Eating will be heading to New Orleans French Quarter Festival again in 2010...this time featuring Crawfish courtesy of Rouses Markets. Th...

03-24-2010

San Antonio's HIstoric Market Square will welcome Major League Eaters on Sunday, May 2nd when the <b4th Annual La Costena "Feel the Heat" Jalapeno Eat...

03-20-2010

Sonya Thomas added yet another record to her bib sheet after eating 6.75 pounds of fried catfish at the World Catfish Eating Championship from Rhythm ...

03-18-2010

IFOCE legend Ed "Cookie" Jarvis recently sat down with Mike Antolini during a special MLE podcast to update the competitive eating world on his curren...

03-17-2010

The results are in from the TooJay's World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship. Joey Chestnut reigned supreme and captured the Corned Beef Sandwich ...

03-15-2010

MLE checked-in with rookie phenom Ben Monson as he prepares to make his first start in 2010 this Wednesday in Palm Beach Gardens:

<iYou'll be compe...

03-12-2010

Major League Eating has added two more contests to it's active month of May in the disciplines of Gyros and Curly Fries.

On Saturday, May 15th, MLE...

03-06-2010

Major League Eating will be heading to Binga's Stadium in Portland, Maine on March 26-27 for the 1st Annual Binga's Tender Bender Challenge!

Amate...

03-06-2010

Another episode of the Major League Eating podcast is now available on <b<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mle-major-league-eating/i d34926...

03-05-2010

In what promises to be an action packed month on the 2010 MLE Circuit, three May contests will be open for registration next week on IFOCE.com.

Ki...

02-24-2010

The TooJay's St. Patrick's Day World Class Corned Beef Sandwich Eating Championship is less than one month away and most handicappers have Shoudt or B...

02-18-2010

Major League Eating will head to the Isle of Capri Casino Lula on Saturday, April 17 where Ribs will be on the menu and $3,000 will be up for grabs. A...

02-16-2010

"Today was Pat's day." -Bob Shoudt, Fat Tuesday 2010, Showboat Casino

Pat Bertoletti hopped a plane from Chicago to AC Mardi Gras morning on a mis...

02-09-2010

Major League Eating's unofficial Vegetable Week has been set for the weekend of April 24-25. On Saturday, April 24, the World Deep-Fried Asparagus Eat...

02-01-2010

This St. Patrick's Day (Wed. March 17th) Major League Eating will team up with TooJay's Gourmet Deli and National Deli to present The TooJay's World C...

01-22-2010

Major League Eating's MLEgives has made a donation to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti foundation.

You can help those suffering in Haiti also. Simply visi...

01-13-2010

Rhythm City Casino in Davenport, IA will host the first-ever Catfish Eating Championship on Saturday, March 20th. A limited field of Major League Eate...

01-09-2010

Major League Eating kicked off its 2010 season from the Isle Casino Biloxi Saturday afternoon and although the discipline was new, the result was not....

01-06-2010

Major League Eating has launched a podcast to take you inside the minds of the world's best competitive eaters as they sit down to share their experie...

01-05-2010

Major League Eating will return to the Showboat Atlantic City Hotel & Casino again in 2010 to celebrate "Fat Tuesday" in appropriate style when it hol...

01-04-2010

Major League Eating will sanction the first-ever Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Eating Championship in honor of Elvis’s 75th Birthday. The event w...

12-06-2009

Brady, Big Ben, Joey Chestnut. Three men you could bank on for the past number of... well... the past decade. Yet, today, December 6th, 2009, all th...

12-04-2009

Major League Eating will head to The Isle Casino Hotel Biloxi on Saturday, January 9 to celebrate an Elvis favorite (PB&B's) while honoring his 75th b...

12-03-2009

Major League Eating is officially moving on from the week's tabloid news and putting its entire focus on today's Slammin' Salmon Chowder Eating Champi...

12-03-2009

Robert Shoudt, a married male from the suburbs of Philadelphia, ate more than 2.4 gallons of chowder to win the first officially sanctioned salmon cho...

11-24-2009

In recognition of Thanksgiving 2009, Major League Eating has made a donation to the Food Bank for New York City, a member of Feeding America (formerly...

11-23-2009

For the second time this year, the Nathan's Famous July Fourth extravaganza has been placed alongside such sporting events as The Masters, the Super B...

11-16-2009

In a battle of mid-atlantic MLE superstars, Humble Bob Shoudt reigned supreme by capturing the Roy Rogers Roast Beef Slider Eating World Championship ...

11-12-2009

On Saturday the Roy Rogers on Buckeystown Road in Frederick, MD (locals call it Fred) will play host to the first ever real roast beef sandwich eating...

11-08-2009

In a star-studded affair from Martorano's at the Rio, Joey Chestnut ate 50 meatballs in 10-minutes to win the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball ...

11-02-2009

In what many saw as a fitting win on Halloween night, the masked MLE Champion, "Eater X" Tim Janus won the 1st Annual Billy Sims BBQ Rib-Eating Title ...

10-26-2009

Major League Eating and Roy Rogers will team up to host the Roy Rogers Roast Beef Sandwich Eating Championship on Saturday, November 14th. The contest...

10-23-2009

Major League Eating will crown the first Flauta-Eating Champion at Jose's in La Jolla, CA. The San Diego beach town will hold the contest on December ...

10-04-2009

Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos defended his b.good Garlicky Greens Eating title on Saturday afternoon after downing 7.5 lbs of spinach to set a new world r...

10-01-2009

Major League Eating updated its rankings today (Oct. 1) shuffling eaters from top to bottom after a September that boasted nineteen events. Takeru Kob...

10-01-2009

On Saturday, October 31st, Billy Sims BBQ will host its first-ever Rib-Eating Championship prior to the University of Oklahoma-Kansas State Football g...

09-30-2009

On Sunday, November 8th, Major League Eating will head to Las Vegas for the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball-Eating Championship. The event wil...

09-28-2009

The b.good Garlicky Greens Eating Championship will take place this Saturday, October 3rd at b.good's new location at the Legacy Place Mall in Dedham,...

09-28-2009

On a beautiful day in Chattanooga, Takeru Kobayashi set a new "no dunking" world record and won the 2009 Krystal Square Off in a convincing fashion....

09-26-2009

In a closely contested affair that featured former Sox & Pats greats in Jim Corsi and Max Lane, Philly's own Micah "Wing Kong" Collins stole the show ...

09-21-2009

The largest prize purse in Major League Eating is up for grabs in Chattanooga this coming Sunday. More than 10,000 fans will gather on the banks of t...

09-19-2009

The Notorious R.O.B.ert Shoudt is living up to his moniker lately after continuing his attack on the MLE September calendar. Shoudt entered the World ...

09-13-2009

FULL RESULTS:

1-Humble Bob Shoudt - 66 pts (41 Krystals/5 Big Angus) 2-Eric Livingston - 42 pts (17/5) 3-Jon Bello - 39 pts (14/5) 4-Mike Landri...

09-12-2009

Full Birmingham Krystal Square Off VI Results:

1-Eric Badlands Booker wins 51 Krystal Points (26 Krystals/5 Big Angus) 2-Erik Unger 42 pts (17/5)...

09-11-2009

Three top-ranked Major League Eaters recently returned home from the Guantánamo Bay Navy Base where they spent the Labor Day holiday entertaining Amer...

09-05-2009

Check out all the action from the National Buffalo Wing Festival, including the U.S. Buffalo Wing Eating Championships today at 4:00pm, via live strea...

09-03-2009

This year will mark the 82nd Annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy. More than a million people attend this festival every year, which runs for 1...

09-02-2009

John Ascuaga's Nugget has a new Rib King in the name of Deep Dish. Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti downed 5.8 pounds of ribs in 12 minutes to narrowly edge...

08-29-2009

Sonya Thomas made a definitive return to the Krystal Square Off circuit today when she posted a personal best 64 Krystal points (5 Big Angus/39 Krysta...

08-27-2009

Major League Eating and the IFOCE would like to report an oversight in the 16" pizza world record category. Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti was not properl...

08-27-2009

In a month that already boasts fourteen Major League Eating contests, three more are being added to the schedule bringing the monthly prize purse clos...

08-22-2009

Courtesy of <a href="http://www.krystalsquareoff.com"www.krystalsquareoff.com</a:

The new rule changes and sweltering August heat in Chattanooga we...

08-21-2009

Earlier today, Pat Bertoletti put a Krystal Big Angus Burger down in just nine (9) seconds time. One Big A is worth five Krystals on the circuit this...

08-21-2009

Major League Eating has posted the latest rankings, listing the top 50 professional eaters in the world. Joey Chestnut remains at 1 to the surprise of...

08-18-2009

It's official! The 2009 World Burrito Eating Championship will take place at the New Mexico State Fair on Friday, September 18th at 2:30pm MST. $3,000...

08-17-2009

Brooklyn's Five Spot Soulfood Restaurant will host Five Spot's Famous Philly CheeseSteak Fest on Sunday, September 6th adding some added punch to Majo...

08-16-2009

Eater X bested an impressive field to win the Valleyfair World Funnel Cake Eating Championship on Saturday. X downed nearly 6 pounds--5.68 to be exact...

08-15-2009

Eater X won the Funnel Cake Eating Contest at Valleyfair Amusement Park by downing 5.68lbs. Hall Elujah Hunt placed 2nd w/4.97. Humble Bob placed 3rd ...

08-05-2009

The King's Island Skyline Chili Spaghetti Eating World Championship is back for its second year this Labor Day (Monday, September 7th). The Cincinnati...

08-04-2009

In what will be the most lucrative month in terms of prize money on the Major League Eating Circuit, another jaw-dropper has been added to September's...

08-03-2009

Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti won the first ever Pepe’s Soft Taco Eating Challenge at Balmoral Park Racetrack on Saturday, August 1st after downing 33 so...

08-03-2009

Registration for the Krystal Square Off VI is set to open on IFOCE.com Tuesday, August 4th at 12:00pm est. $50,000 is on the line at the Krystal Squar...

07-30-2009

In recognition of speed-eating jalapenos being among the most grueling events on the Major League Eating Circuit, La Costena has sweetened the reward ...

07-29-2009

Krystal To Award Largest Cash Purse In Competitive Eating .... Again

The Krystal Company is stepping up once again to prove competitive eating is a...

07-29-2009

The John Ascuaga's Nugget World Rib Eating Championship is back on Wednesday, September 2nd as part of the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off. $5,00...

07-29-2009

KSO6 Qualifying Dates And Cities Announced

Whether you're vying for a shot at the final table or simply a competitive eating fan ready to map out t...

07-25-2009

Perhaps it was the addition of an upstart rookie -- Steve Dokho of Chicago -- or perhaps it was extraordinary eating by Hall Hunt, Gravy Brown and Pat...

07-17-2009

For the first weekend in more than 12 weekends, Major League Eating is not holding an event. Not today, not tomorrow and not Sunday. It’s the middle...

07-14-2009

The National Buffalo Wing Festival once again returns to Buffalo, NY on September 5-6 and with it comes two prized Major League Eating contests. On Sa...

07-13-2009

Tomorrow at Noon EST, registration for the Pepe's Soft Taco Eating Contest will be available on IFOCE.com. This first-time contest will be held at Ba...

07-12-2009

Another Smokin' at the Ocean BBQ & Brewfest is in the books at Chinook Winds Casino Resort and with it Joey Chestnut adds to his bib sheet with a new ...

07-06-2009

"I'm a Major League Eater" will air on The BIO Channel on Wednesday, July 8th at 10 EST and 11 PST.

<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7u-rW-...

07-04-2009

Joey Chestnut today won the Nathan's Famous July Fourth International Eating Contest by eating 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, 3 1/2 more than Tak...

07-03-2009

Date Announced for the 2009 World Hamburger Eating Championship

Krystal Square Off VI World Hamburger Eating Championship Slated for
September 2...

07-03-2009

ESPN and ESPN360.com to Offer Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Live July 4

For the sixth consecutive year, ESPN and ESPNHD will televise the Nat...

07-03-2009

Coney Island, NY – Three Asian elephants beat three Major League Eaters in the first-ever fully sanctioned cross-species eating contest today (Friday ...

06-28-2009

"Pretty Boy" Pete Davekos earned this year's final qualifying spot to Coney Island in his third attempt of 2009 with a victory at San Jose State Unive...

06-27-2009

The heat was a major factor in the Newnan, GA, Nathan's Famous qualifier, suppressing numbers and forcing some eaters to push back from the table. Bu...

06-26-2009

Tomorrow, the Bunnette Bootcamp will take place in Coney Island after the final Nathan's qualifier. Veteran Bunnette Laura Leu, assisted by Richard S...

06-25-2009

There’s an Aesopic credo that advises “Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.” Pete Davekos, while Greek, thinks Aesop was a pu...

06-25-2009

A fully sanctioned cross-species eating contest will occur at 11 AM on Friday, July 3, between Major League Eating and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &...

06-22-2009

Facing a much improved Pat Philbin and ever-improving Nasty Nate, Badlands Booker put down 40 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns to win the qualifier a...

06-22-2009

Chinook Winds Casino Resort will once again host the World Rib Eating Championship at the 2009 Smokin' at the Ocean BBQ & Brewfest. The rib eating co...

06-20-2009

Three Jimmy John's sandwich makers overwhelmed Pat Bertoletti, Hall Hunt and Gravy Brown of MLE, making 52 sanwiches in 10 minutes--only 30 of which w...

06-18-2009

Robert Tuchman, a die hard sports fan, recently authored a book titled "100 Sporting Events You Must See Live." The Nathan's Famous International Jul...

06-18-2009

The Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest will begin with eater introductions at 12 Noon on Saturday, July 4, 2009, at t...

06-16-2009

On June 13, there were two Nathan’s Famous qualifiers. The first was at the Concord Mills Mall in the Charlotte, NC metro area. It featured a trio o...

06-16-2009

Jim Reeves, the pride of Buffalo, snuck down to Harrod, Ohio and placed first in the Rudolph Foods World Pork Rind Eating Championship that took place...

06-15-2009

They are often overlooked at the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, but their role is critical. Not only mus...

06-09-2009

On Sunday, June 28th, the first World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge will be held at Colusa Casino Resort in Colusa, CA. These tasty primal cuts of sirloin ...

06-06-2009

In the moment of victory Gravy Brown removed his shirt to reveal his bloated belly. It was, to say the least, unfortunate, the only blemish on a perf...

06-04-2009

Sonya Thomas may be known as The Black Widow, but those who know her understand she is a genuine and sweet individual. Sonya is fierce competitor wit...

05-31-2009

Seattle eating great Erik the Red Denmark walked away with the Arizona Nathan's Famous Qualifier yesterday by downing 28 HDBs in 10 minutes. He doubl...

05-31-2009

World Pizza Hut P'zone-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi and arch rival Joey Chestnut partied with the stars at the SpikeTV Guys' Choice awards in LA. ...

05-31-2009

Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti continued his torrid pace with his 5th win of the 2009 season after downing 6.625 pounds of fried calamari in 10 minutes at...

05-30-2009

Hall Hunt took down 33 hot dogs to run away with the Nathan's Famous qualifier at the Sam's Club in Pinellas Park, Florida.

Hall ate at a steady sp...

05-30-2009

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan beat his arch-rival Joey Chestnut in the Pizza Hut P'Zone Chow-lenge by eating 5 3/4 P'Zones in the six-minute all-you-can-e...

05-27-2009

World hot dog-eating champion Joey Chestnut and arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi will face off on Saturday, May 30, 2009, in one of the greatest battle of ...

05-26-2009

Rumors are spreading that a clash of the titans, in the form of a head-to-head title match, will soon be announced. Speculation by fans has focused on...

05-25-2009

Juliet Lee won the Peter's Clam Bar cherrystone clam-eating world championship on Monday, Memorial Day, by downing 23 dozen clams. Tim Janus in secon...

05-23-2009

With the Roddick and Federer of competitive eating going head to head, it was sure to be an intense Funnel Cake Eating Championship at King's Dominion...

05-23-2009

Juliet Lee won the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating contest that took place at the Beach Bar of the Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City today.
The fi...

05-21-2009

In NYC, and the fashion-minded world in general, it’s not cool to wear flip-flops unless it’s summer or you’re some poser named Kris fumbling with an ...

05-17-2009

Bob Shoudt, the vegetarian from Royersford, PA, won the Pennsylvania Nathan's Famous qualifier today by downing 38 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. R...

05-16-2009

One hot dog for every state in the nation. One hot dog for every card in a deck. One hot dog for every way to leave your lover.

Eater X eats 50 H...

05-09-2009

Sean Gordon wins Patriot Place Nathan's match, downing 26 HDBs in 10 mins to edge out Pete Davekos and Shredder Goldstein, who tied for second with 23...

05-09-2009

Sean Gordon wins Patriot Place Nathan's match, downing 26 HDBs in 10 mins to edge out Pete Davekos and Shredder Goldstein, who tied for second with 23...

05-08-2009

It's too bad Pavoratti is not alive to witness tomorrow's Patriot Place Nathan's Famous showdown between Allen Goldstein and Pete Davekos. The famous...

05-07-2009

The heat was a factor in Las Vegas as Rich "The Locust" LeFevre won his hometown Nathan's Famous qualifier with 26 HDBs in 10 minutes. Ron Koch, known...

05-07-2009

{{With the Las Vegas Qualifier just an hour or so away, MLE wanted to look back at this story from December 2005}}

THE ROLE OF PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR I...

05-04-2009

The largest maker of pork rinds in the world is Rudolph Foods, and MLE is thrilled to announce that it’s working in concert with this group to produce...

05-02-2009

A road report from Richard Shea informs us that Crazy Legs has won the first Nathan's Famous qualifier with 25 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, earnin...

05-01-2009

George Shea has caused an uproar on Twitter by offering (to his followers only) special fan access to the July 4 Nathan's Famous hot dog-eating contes...

04-30-2009

Due to technical difficulties, MLE HQ was unable to post registration for the clam eating championship at noon today as scheduled.

Registration wil...

04-28-2009

Registration for Niko Niko's World Gryo-Eating Championship, to be held Houston, TX, on May 16, will open on Wendesday, April 29, 2009 at 3 pm Eastern...

04-26-2009

Hall 'elujah' Hunt wins Sweet Corn w/34 ears. LaRue placed 2nd and Conti took 3rd.

More info to follow or twitter @gcshea...

04-26-2009

Hall 'elujah' Hunt wins Sweet Corn w/33 ears.

Jammin Joe LaRue placed 2nd with 31 1/4.

Crazy Legs Conti took 3rd with 29 1/2.

...

04-25-2009

Joey Chestnut came onto the eating scene as a rookie at the deep fried asparagus contest and rocked the world with his victory. He's gone on to reach...

04-24-2009

The 2009 Major League Eating season has come out of the gate faster than Funny Cide and HQ is please to announce that three additional events today, a...

04-24-2009

Matthew Penniman, a sophomore at UMAS, won the UMASS Nathan's Famous pre-season match on Wednesday, April 23, with 11 hot dogs and buns. Richard Shea...

04-18-2009

Sonya Thomas won the Acme Oyster-Eating Contest in New Orleans Saturday, consuming 29 dozens oysters in 10 minutes to beat a field of 15 professional ...

04-11-2009

Joey Chestnut won the first annual Funnel Cake Eating championship at California's Great America today by downing 5.44 pounds of the flavorful treat. ...

04-06-2009

The sign-up process for the 2009 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Circuit is set to begin in one hour, 12PM EST, at www.nathansfamous.com.

Everybody ...

04-06-2009

Nathan's site now accepting a third option.

...

04-03-2009

Five Major League Eaters are set to appear on NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this evening. Also appearing are Lauren Graham, Judah Friedlander an...

03-23-2009

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has announced that its annual July Fourth International Hot Dog Eating Contest will return for the 94th year at the company’s fl...

03-16-2009

St. Patrick Bertoletti, the Irish Italian American kid from Chicago, won today's Stroehmann Sandwich Slamm, corned beef on rye, eating championship by...

02-26-2009

According to Steakbellie, a fellow Philly-based eater, U.S. Male dies his blood green when donating in the hopes of influencing the recipient’s choice...

02-24-2009

An upset at the Showboat Crawfish Smackdown in AC as US Male beats Humble Bod, Sonya Thomas and Badlands Booker to take the House of Blues Mardi Gras ...

02-03-2009

Registration for the February 24th House of Blues Showboat Casino Fat Tuesday Crawfish Eating Championship will take place on this site at 2pm EST on ...

01-28-2009

It's been three months since Major League Eating has held an open, officially sanctioned eating contest. In this time the nation’s largest financial ...

12-30-2008

I am well aware of the gustatory greatness displayed by Chicago-based Gravy Brown, but I never knew he had musical talent. I now find myself blessed ...

12-28-2008

Takeru Kobayashi ate an impressive four pounds, eight ounces of fruitcake on Thursday, December 26, in New York City, as part of a charitable initiati...

12-28-2008

Collard Green, a bitter vegetable-eating specialist from Newport News, Virginia, whose given name was William Carson Hughes, Sr., died on Friday, Dece...

12-12-2008

EATING PHENOM TAKERU KOBAYASHI SEEKS TO EAT ALL LEFTOVER HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE

Effort Highlights Major League Eating’s Holiday Food Bank Giving Initia...

11-10-2008

The two top-ranked major league eaters in the world, Joey Chestnut and Pat "P Bert" Bertoletti, have traded pizza-eating blows in an exhilarating clos...

10-08-2008

MLE Sanctioned two record attempts on Philadelphia's WMMR (the station that reaches the beaches and rocks the shore) early this morning. The attempts...

10-03-2008

Crazy Legs Conti, one-time french cut Green Bean Eating champ of the world and current Lumberjack Breakfast Eating champ of the world, entered the Net...

09-28-2008

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. - American eating sensation Joey Chestnut retained his hamburger eating title today at the Krystal Square Off V World Hamburger Eat...

09-27-2008

Patrick Vandam won't the tamales contest in Lewisville TX by eating 44. Second place went to Gravy Sinclaire w/41 and Erik The Red took 3rd with 34.5...

09-27-2008

Pretty Boy Pete Davekos consumed 7lbs of Garlicky Greens (sauteed spinach) at the b.good celebration in Harvard Square today. The feat earned him fir...

09-24-2008

FSN South To Televise 2008 Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship Live On Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2:00 p.m. EST

World's Top Competitiv...

09-20-2008

Takeru Kobayashi, the former Krystal champ, edged out Super Paul to win today's Bimingham Krystal qualifier. He ate 89 Krystals in eight minutes....

09-20-2008

Eater X and Humble Bob tied after ten minutes at Costa Vida in South Portland. A two-minute burrito eat off ensued and 8 came out the victor. In third...

09-17-2008

This Saturday, September 20th, Kobayashi is expected to be krushing the Krystals in Birmingham (feature on this site due Friday). Many of the world's ...

09-14-2008

Major League Eating announces today the creation of a new rule called the Mustard Yellow Card. The rule allows league officials and judges to formall...

09-13-2008

Juliet 'The Lovely' Lee won today's Nashville qualifier amid a controversy that swirled around excessive debris. The contest ended up in a first ever...

09-06-2008

Patrick Bertoletti secured his seat at the Krystal Square Off V World Hamburger Eating Championship today, eating 66 Krystals in 8 minutes at the Atla...

09-05-2008

New York, NY, Sept. 5, 2008 -- Major League Eating has released polling results that show Alaska Governor Sarah Palin overwhelming Senator Joe Biden i...

09-02-2008

It was a big Labor Day Weekend on the MLE circuit, with events from Jacksonville to Buffalo and many ports in between.

Saturday found Sonya Thomas ...

09-01-2008

Hall Hunt faught off a tough and determined Sonya Thomas in Jacksonville today to keep his beloved position as the Krystal Jax champion. What's more, ...

08-30-2008

Joey Chestnut beat his rivals Pat Bertoletti and Humble Bob Shoudt today at the Pulled Pork Sandwiches Championship in a sweltering Myrtle Beach.

C...

08-23-2008

Humble Bob Shoudt wins the first qualifier of KSO V Saturday in Chattanooga, TN. Mr. Humble don't call me Humble ate 58 Krystals in the eight minute c...

08-23-2008

Joey Chestnut again stunned the world with his gurgitory prowess on Saturday, downing 231 gyoza in 10 minutes to break his own world record at the Los...

08-22-2008

The 2008 Krystal Square Off circuit is here, and the Chattanooga-based company has stepped up to the plate in a big way. With a record prize payout of...

08-17-2008

In a stunning upset, Bob Shoudt took the title of Ash Creek Saloon World Rib Eating Champion today, besting Joey Chestnut at his own game. Chestnut ha...

08-14-2008

<bLargest cash purse in competitive eating history up for grabs at the World Hamburger Eating Championship</b

Chattanooga, Tenn. – When the very be...

08-07-2008

The road to the world championship starts August 23 in Chattanooga

For Immediate Release

August 07, 2008

Chattanooga, Tenn. – The Krystal Com...

07-28-2008

Bob Shoudt had a huge win on Saturday at the Cherokee Casino World BBQ Eating Championship. Beating out four other top ten eaters, Humble Bob seems in...

07-28-2008

Takeru Kobayashi took the World Chicken Satay-eating title this weekend at the first Major League Eating event in Singapore. Kobayashi ate 5.419 kg (1...

07-25-2008

Don Moses Lerman will judge the 2008 Cannoli Contest at the Festa Di San Gennaro in New York City. The event is currently slated for September 12th. ...

07-14-2008

Joey Chestnut once again took the Chinook Winds rib-eating title with 8.05 lbs of rib meat in 12 minutes. This is Chestnut's fourth win at the Lincoln...

07-06-2008

Krystal has announced that the Krystal Square Off V World Hamburger Eating Championship will take place on September 28, 2008, and will once again be ...

07-04-2008

JOEY CHESTNUT BEATS TAKERU KOBAYASHI IN OT DOWNING 59 NATHAN’S HOT DOGS IN 10-MINUTE REGULATION

Mustard Yellow Belt Remains in the United States ...

06-28-2008

A large crowd assembled on the corner of 3rd and Market Streets in Camden today to watch the big man, the bad man, Eric Badlands Booker bust out of re...

06-26-2008

Pat Philbin wins again!! The man from Moonachie ate 22.5 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs to edge out Wing Kong for the win. Wing Kong ate 22 HDBs and finis...

06-24-2008

On July 4, 2008 Nathan’s Famous will donate 100,000 hot dogs to the Food Bank For New York City, a hunger relief charity that is part of the America’s...

06-21-2008

It's the longest day of the year and major league eaters everywhere are fixin to dance naked under the stars. Before they do, they'll need to digest t...

06-15-2008

Pat Bertoletti held his title under fierce strawberry shortcake competition today from Eater X, Crazy Legs and Suffolk county Legend Eric Badlands Boo...

06-14-2008

Nathan's Famous, the hot dog of the Mets, hosted its last contest at historic Shea Stadium tonight. At the end, Ryan Nerz yelled at the top of his lu...

06-14-2008

On a great stage with a great band and big ole NC crowd, Hall Hunt crushed his 2007 record of 28.75 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes by eating 34.5 in ...

06-07-2008

Juris Shibayama ate 28 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns in 10 minutes at the Sam's Club in Metairie, LA to qualify for the 08 Coney Island classic. ...

06-07-2008

The Black Widow blew out the competition at Nathan's Famous in Norfolk today by eatin 38.5 HDBs. In second place was Russ The Bus Keeler with 20 and ...

06-02-2008

On June 1st, Major League Eating and Nathan's Famous held an event at the 19th annual Hot Dog Safari in Boston. The event, which raises money for the...

05-31-2008

Erik The Red won the Kansas City Sam's Club Nathan's Famous qualifier today by consuming 24 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns in 10 minutes.

In sec...

05-31-2008

Standing on the shoulders of Krazy Kevin Lipsitz, who qualified for the Nathan's Famous July 4th International Hot Dog Eating Contest in the Arizona M...

05-31-2008

Pat Bertoletti, an Italian American from America, won the Three Brother's Pizza Eating Contest in Baltimore by eating 20 of the famous pizzeria's slic...

05-24-2008

Juliet Lee downed 29 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns to win the Pittsburgh Sam's Club qualifier and entry into the 2008 Nathan's Famous Internationa...

05-24-2008

Humble Bob Shoudt, a vegetarian from Doylesford, PA, consumed 38 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns in 10 minutes to win the Philly Qualifier and earn ...

05-20-2008

Major League Eating held a formal launch event for MLE: The Game today at the Nintendo store in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center.

To celebrate the fo...

05-19-2008

Eric Booker. Sonya Thomas. Eater X. Juliet Lee.

Before they were ranked in the Top 10, before they even had nicknames and rap albums and profiles...

05-17-2008

Arturo Rios "Grande" ate 22.75 Nathan's Famous HDBs on the East Hartford Glastonbury Line to win today's quailfier.

Russ Keeler took 2nd wirh 19....

05-17-2008

Pat Bertoletti ate 12 gyros to win 2000 bucks and edge out Joey Chestnut who placed second with 11 gyros and earned 1000 bucks. Humble Bob ate 9.5 gyr...

05-10-2008

Pat Bertoletti secured his place at the Coney Island table today near Minneapolis by eating 41 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Exciti...

05-08-2008

Major League Eating was recently presented with a document that suggests the original hot dog eating contest was 10 minutes in length.

The League...

04-26-2008

Joey Chestnut spearheaded another exciting tempura fried asparagus eating contest today and won the event by downing 8.8 pounds of the green vegetable...

04-25-2008

Roughly two years ago, MLE health correspondent Alexis Schneider published the column that appears below. Since it's posting, MLE has learned that Jo...

04-25-2008

Roughly two years ago, MLE health correspondent Alexis Schneider published the column that appears below. Since it's posting, MLE has learned that Jo...

04-12-2008

Pat Bertoletti continued to dominate the sport today in New Orleans, while Juliet Lee is quickly proving herself to be a force of nature. The Acme Wor...

04-11-2008

On July 4, 2007, America watched in awe as Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship, beating six-time champion ...

03-24-2008

<b“Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”</b --Elton John, “Candle in the Wind”

It is with humility that Major League Eating bi...

03-02-2008

Joey Chestnut walked away with the top prize at the Kenny & Ziggy's World Matzoh Ball Eating Championship today in Houston. Chestnut ate 78 matzoh bal...

02-29-2008

Meet Tim "Gravy" Brown.

<b1. Describe your first contest experience/How did you discover your talent?</b

My first contest was Golden Palace Gri...

02-08-2008

One of the most exciting up-and-comers on the 2008 IFOCE/MLE circuit is Juris "Dr. Bigtime" Shibayama. A man of conflicting identities, he is at once ...

02-01-2008

Joseph “Jaws” Chestnut defended his title and his number one ranking today, winning Wing Bowl for the third consecutive year. He ate a staggering tota...

01-31-2008

Eater X consumed 14.3 ounces of fried pig skin (the equivalent of an official football) in six minutes to win the MLE Pigskin Eating Championships at ...

01-23-2008

MLE: Paul, your underground artwork recently hit the mainstream when it graced the cover of Badlands Booker’s new hip hop CD: Hungry and Focused 4: Fo...

01-01-2008

With 2007 at an end and the New England Patriots smashing records both old and new, we have elected to take a look at the Tom Brady and Randy Moss of ...

11-29-2007

Major League Eating and the International Federation of Competitive Eating have increased the initial donation of $10,000 to hunger charities to $15,0...

11-26-2007

Who can forget the day that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes, when all the Who’s in Whoville were so impressed that they let him carve the Ro...

10-28-2007

History was made today in Chattanooga when Joey Chestnut ate 103 Krystals to win the KS0 IV.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN. - American eating sensation Joey C...

10-27-2007

Eater X won today's Naruto Clash of the Ninja Ramen Noodle Eating Championship in New York City.

Eater X ate 10.5 lbs of noodles in the 10 minute ...

10-23-2007

Major League Eating and the International Federation of Competitive Eating have donated $10,000 to Second Harvest and selected organizations to kick o...

10-17-2007

Joey Chestnut ate 87 Krystals today to qualify for the KSO IV. This is ten off the record but very impressive for a qualifier.

The annual square...

10-16-2007

The first episode of Major League Eating’s three-part ChowDown series will air on Spike on Thursday, October 18th at 11pm EST.

The show, packed c...

10-14-2007

Crazy Legs Conti qualified for the KSO IV by eating 44 of the cult classic Krystals in eight minutes today. Conti ll appear on the ESPN-televised Kr...

10-07-2007

Pat 'Deep Dish' Bertoletti continued his winning streak against Joey Chestnut today at the State Fair of Texas, winning the Waffle House World Waffle ...

09-30-2007

Eater X continued his impressive fall season with a win in Memphis today downing 73 Krystals in eight minutes for entry into the KSO IV, which will ai...

09-29-2007

Patrick Bertoletti won the Lousiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship today by eating 21 pounds of grits in 10 minutes. Tim Janus placed second w...

09-23-2007

Superstar Major League Eater put down 85 Krystals in eight minutes today to win the Atlanta qualifier for KSO IV. Bertoletti will be a force come Oct...

09-22-2007

New Englanders set aside their concern over the Red Sox today and celebrated the Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship in South Portland, ME. R...

09-16-2007

Chip Simpson cruised to victory in Knoxville this afternoon by downing 49 Krystals in eight minutes to qualify for the Krystal Square Off IV.

In ...

09-16-2007

With mariachis beating in the distance, Chicago's hometown boy Pat 'Deep Dish' Bertoletti prevailed in what many believe is the most grueling discipli...

09-14-2007

Eater X won his second straight cannoli title today in Little Italy. The face painted lothario consumed XXI cannoli in VI minutes to the amazement of ...

09-09-2007

Humble Bob Square Pants rolled like the Patriots offense today by winning the Krystal Square Off Nashville qualifier with 69 Krystals, 30 more than an...

09-03-2007

Hall Hunt won today's Krystal Square Off in his hometown of Jacksonville, FL.

More than 400 fans gathered at the Landing for the annual Krystal t...

09-02-2007

Sonya Thomas won the annual buffalo wing eating championship at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo by downing 5.17 lbs of wing meat.

L...

09-01-2007

X ate 71 tamales in 12 minutes today to set a new Lewisville and World record.

LeFevre placed second with 51 despite his bad tooth. Mongo Marquez t...

09-01-2007

Today in Myrtle Beach at the Beach, Boogie and BBQ Festival, Joey Chestnut set a new world record in pulled pork BBQ sandwiches. The record was previo...

08-30-2007

On August 29, Major League Eaters gathered at the 19th Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off in Sparks, NV for the 2nd Annual World Rib Eating C...

08-25-2007

Sonya Thomas won the first of nine Krystal Square Off qualifiers today in Chattanooga, TN by downing 51 of the classic burgers in just eight minutes. ...

08-25-2007

Pat Bertoletti once again proved his astonishing athletic ability today by winning the Ash Creek Saloon World Rib Eating Championship with 6.06 lbs of...

08-21-2007

Crazy Legs Conti won the Saratoga Springs Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest by downing 21.5 HDBs in 12 minutes.

Full results:

Crazy Legs C...

08-13-2007

IFOCE added an unexpected Nathan's event in Saratoga. This is a rapid fire addition to the MLE 2007 Eating Event Schedule.

It will occur on August...

08-08-2007

Patrick “P-Rock” Bertoletti solidified his reputation as the best sweets-eater in the known universe by taking the Drum Corps International Peanut But...

08-02-2007

KRYSTAL ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOR KRYSTAL SQUARE OFF IV WORLD HAMBURGER
EATING CHAMPIONSHIP

NINE-CITY QUALIFYING TOUR STARTS AUGUST 22 IN CHATTANOO...

07-28-2007

Blueberry pie results - winner: Pat Bertoletti 9.17 lbs in 8 min, Second place, Gravy Brown 8.47, Third goes to Mongo 6.56, then Kevin Ross 5.58, Ha...

07-17-2007

Joey Chestnut has once again taken the title at the Chinook Winds World Rib Eating Championship. Chestnut has never been beaten in the rib discipline....

07-04-2007

Joey Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., today won the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating former champion Takeru K...

07-02-2007

Nathan’s Famous July Fourth International Hot dog Eating Contest

Six-time world champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan will return to the corner of Sur...

06-28-2007

Bob Shoudt won the QVC qualifier today with 32 HDBs in 12 minutes. Shoudt was followed closely by rising star Brad Sciullo with 26.5. The Mad Greek ma...

06-25-2007

New York, NY, June 25, 2007 -- Japanese eating phenom and hot dog-eating world champion Takeru Kobayashi was listed as “day-to-day” on Monday after re...

06-24-2007

Arturo Rios, Jr. won the Pigs Feet-Eating Contest at the New Jersey State Fair, beating out Eric Denmark, who took second, Crazy Legs Conti, who place...

06-23-2007

Dale Boone shook off a surging Bubba Yarbrough to win the Nathan's qualifier in Atlanta. Boone ate 21 HDBs to Bubba's 20. In third place was Juris Pr...

06-23-2007

Chicago's Pat Bertoletti set a new Shoo Fly Pie eating record by downing 11.1 pounds at Pennsylvania's Rockvale Outlets.

With a massive purse and...

06-23-2007

Rich LeFevre at 34 HDBs to win the San Francisco Nathan's Famous qualifier. Erbivoe did 16 and Skinny Boy Lane ate 14.

Gabe Kaplan was reportedly...

06-22-2007

Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin won the Nathan's Famous qualifier at the Molly Pitcher Rest Stop in Cranbury, NJ, today by consuming 27 HDBs in 12 minute...

06-18-2007

For nearly a century the most coveted prize in competitive eating has been the bejeweled Nathan's Famous Mustard Yellow Belt of International Hot Dog ...

06-17-2007

St. Patrick Bertoletti set a world record for eating strawberry shortcake at today's Mattituck Strawberry Festival sponsored by the Mattituck Lions Cl...

06-16-2007

Crazy Legs Conti, the venerable East Village eater, won the Mall of America qualifier with a personal best of 24 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and buns.
...

06-16-2007

Juliet Lee won the Norfolk, VA Nathan's Famous qualifier today by consuming 26 HDBs in 12 minutes.

She advances to the finals in Coney on July 4....

06-09-2007

Hall Hunt edged out Juliet Lee at the Nathan's Famous Charlotte qualifier.

Florida's faith-based eater consumed 28.75 HDBs to Juliet's 28.

I...

06-04-2007

P. Theyagarjan, the eating champion of India, will attend the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island in N...

06-03-2007

In a dramatic one minute overtime eat off, Erik the Red beat Pat from Moonachie to take the Shea Stadium qualifier. The man from Seattle moves on to ...

06-02-2007

Joey Chestnut set a world record today in Phoenix, AZ, eating 59.5 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. Chestnut breaks the world record o...

05-21-2007

Joey Chestnut won the TripRewards Ultimate Hot Wing Eating Championship held in New York's Grand Central Terminal today and goes home with one million...

05-19-2007

Eater X rocked the crowd assembled at the vacant Ames in East Hartford by eating 41.5 Nathan's Famous HDBs in 12 minutes.

Tim Brown took second w...

05-18-2007

Last evening, Fox’s hyperbolic weather man Joe Bastardi wrote the following in all caps:

“METEO MAP DISCO HAS BEEN CUT AND SHOULD BE ON LINE SOON....

05-06-2007

After a big St. Pats victory and an impressive showing at the Nathan's Las Vegas Qualifier, everyone felt Pat Bertoletti would have walked away with t...

05-04-2007

Pat Bertoletti continues to earn his keep as the 3 eater in the world. On May 3 in Vegas, the young culinary graduate from Chicago ate an amazing 46 N...

04-30-2007

Jammin' Joe LaRue walked into the arena in West Palm Beach to raucus cheers. A yellow shirt with the inscription "MLE -- Got Corn?" covered the e...

04-28-2007

Joey Chestnut has done it again in Stockton at the Asparagus Festival. The phenom downed 8.6 lbs of tempura fried asparagus in the event for first pl...

04-23-2007

This weekend confirmed that the man known simply as ChipBurger is one of the hottest eaters on the circuit.

On a lovely afternoon at Broadway at t...

03-19-2007

Patrick Bertoletti won the St. Patrick's Day Chowndown on Spike TV, edging out eating phenom Joey Chestnut and setting three new records in the proces...

03-17-2007

The St. Patrick's Day ChowDown will air on Spike TV at 7pm Eastern on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2007.

It is a three round event pitting eight of...

03-08-2007

In advance of the St. Patrick's Day Chowdown, Legs and Eater X shot a video promo at IFOCE HQ. Following is the link. <a h...

03-01-2007

Nathan’s Famous, Inc. has announced the list of American cities that will host official qualifying events for Coney Island 2007.

The tour will ga...

02-17-2007

Takeru Kobayashi, in L.A. to shoot a commercial, watched as Joey Chestnut continued his undefeated streak at the Weinerschnitzel World Chili Cheese Fr...

02-16-2007

Spike TV and Major League Eating announced today that four MLE specials will be broadcast on the popular cable network in 2007.

Each broadcast wi...

02-02-2007

Major League Eaters invaded Philly once again for the fanatical bacchanalia that is WIP’s Wing Bowl.

While some big names – Bob Shoudt, Chip Simp...

01-27-2007

Joey Chestnut has continued his stellar start to the 2007 Major League Eating season by winning the Bikini's Bar and Grill String Fry Eating Champions...

01-20-2007

Joey Chestnut won the Pretzel Twister World Pretzel Championship in Miami today by eating 21 Pretzel Twister Pretzels in 10 minutes. In 2nd place with...

01-03-2007

Pat Bertoletti consumed 53.5 dozen Louisiana Oysters today at the Acme Oyster House in Metairie, Louisiana. This is a new record in the Acme long for...

12-20-2006

Competitiveeatingnews.com reports that Patrick Bertoletti won the Chock full O'Nuts World Date Nut Bread Eating Championship held today at Madison Squ...

12-11-2006

Seaver Miller, the 10th-ranked eater in the World, will look to set a ham-eating record on Friday, December 15th.

Miller’s record attempt is par...

12-04-2006

Humble Bob Shoudt won the Carmines Meatball Eating Contest at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, consuming 9.97 lbs of meatballs in 12 minutes. However,...

11-29-2006

Sonya Thomas won the Wookey Hole Big Eat Mince Pie Eating Championship, considered to be the the single greatest sporting event in the long history of...

11-22-2006

Patrick Bertoletti, the 3 ranked gurgitator in the entire world, won the prestigious Axia3 Thanksgiving Invitational today by devouring 4.8 lbs of tur...

11-20-2006

The Axia 3 Thanksgiving Invitational is confirmed for Wednesday, November 22 at Artie's Delicatessen in Manhattan. The event will feature a variety o...

11-18-2006

Pat Bertoletti ate 9 pounds 2.25 ounces to win the Sky City Casino Posole Eating championship in Acoma,NM today.

Rich LeFevre placed third with 8...

11-14-2006

Competitive eating fans are focused on a big battle set to take place on Saturday at the World Posole Eating Championship at Sky City Casino in beauti...

11-13-2006

Crazy Legs Conti will return to Louisiana to conduct a wing-eating clinic prior to the WOW Wingman Amateur Wing Eating Competition at the WOW Café and...

10-28-2006

Takeru Kobayashi raised the bar of athletic greatness yet again today, devouring 97 Krystals in 8 minutes in what was arguably the most impressive com...

10-26-2006

The Arizona State Fair will play host to the Sky City Casino Fry Bread Eating Challenge on Saturday, October 28th.

Major League Eaters including ...

10-17-2006

Japan's Takeru Kobayashi will face his greatest challenge ever on American soil this October 28, 2006, when he competes live on ESPN2 at the Krystal S...

10-15-2006

Crazy Legs Conti won the Jackson MS Krystal Square Off today eating 38 of the cult favorites and earning a spot in the ESPN-televised world hamburger ...

10-08-2006

Veteran Major League Eater Rich 'the Locust' LeFevre ate 247 Jalapeno peppers to beat Sonya Thomas, Pat Bertoletti and Erik the Red at today's contest...

10-08-2006

Dale Mouth of the South Boone took the stage at today's Krystal Square Off in his trademark coveralls and with his ever-annoying cow bell. With eyes ...

10-01-2006

Eater X accomplished his goal of winning a Krystal qualifier today when he banged down 53 Krystals in 8 minutes.

On X's heels was Rich LeFevre who...

09-29-2006

In an effort to win a Krystal Square Off qualifier outright, Eater X will fly to Memphis for the KSO III event taking place there this Sunday.

Ea...

09-28-2006

The Competitive Eating Network news site reports that Eric Badlands Booker will appear on ABC's Wife Swap on October 9 at 8 pm. The show is considered...

09-24-2006

Chip Simpson edged out Tim Janus in the Atlanta Krystal qualifier, eating one half of a Krystal more to secure a seat in Chattanooga on October 28.

...

09-23-2006

Takeru Kobayashi devoured 41 lobster rolls in 10 minutes, beating a team of four Boston eaters who combined to finish with 28. The contest was an offi...

09-23-2006

Joey Chestnut of San Jose banged dow 34.5 green chili grilled cheese sandwiches to win the Golden Palace.net event in NM.

Rich LeFevre took 2nd wit...

09-21-2006

The world's greatest eater, Takeru Kobayashi, has arrived in Boston and lobsters all over the Atlantic Ocean floor are running scared.

"They run ...

09-18-2006

Patrick Bertoletti, of Chicago, IL, set a new Knoxville area Krystal hamburger-eating record today, devouring 48 of the fast food icon’s famous hambur...

09-18-2006

Takeru Kobayashi will compete against a team of four amateurs in the first-ever GoldenPalace.net Lobster Roll-Eating Challenge to be held on September...

09-17-2006

Joey Chestnut established a new pulled pork eating record at Harrah's Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, IA by downing 9.6 lbs of slow roasted pork. ...

09-16-2006

Sonya Thomas wins the GoldenPalace.net Okra Eating Championship by consuming 9 and 3/4 lbs of fried okra.

Pat Bertoletti placed second, a close ...

09-15-2006

According to CompetitiveEatingNews.com, the breaking news website of the competitive eating world, Eater X Tim Janus won the World Cannoli-Eating Cham...

09-14-2006

Eater X, Conti, Mih and other Major League Eaters will gather at the Annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy tomorrow to vie for the title of Worl...

09-10-2006

Having eaten 28 Krystals in two minutes yesterday, Philly's top gurgitator Bob Shoudt qualified for the 06 KSO by eating 52 Krystals at the Tennessee ...

09-10-2006

Under the watchful eye of pioneer Joe Smith, Joey Chestnut ate 29 Colosimo Italian sausages to win the GoldenPalace.net World Italian Sausage Eating C...

09-06-2006

Joey Chestnut, 2005 Krystal Square Off Runner Up, qualified for the 2006 KSO by downing 52 Krystals in Jacksonville, Florida.

Many Labor Day reve...

09-04-2006

Joey Chestnut broke the world reccord of 18.5 large waffles at exactly ten minutes and 23 seconds into the 12 minute match. From there it was just a ...

09-03-2006

Crazy Legs Conti, Sonya Thomas and several of the other top Major League Eaters will complete a three-day Labor Day swing at the Krystal Square Off qu...

09-02-2006

The National Buffalo Chicken Wing Championship, originally scheduled for 6 pm on Saturday, September 2, will be held at 4 pm. The local contest will ...

09-02-2006

Drew Cerza's legendary Wing Fest went off before Ernesto hit and Chip Simpson rocked Dunn Tire Park, inning with 158 Buffalo Wings. Shoudt and Sonya ...

08-31-2006

Joey Chestnut continues his six-month streak, having never been defeated by an American eater in that time. The Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off, ...

08-30-2006

The Cannoli-Eating Title, currently held by eating legend Edward Cookie Jarvis, will be up for grabs on Friday, September 15th at the 79th Annual Feas...

08-30-2006

There is a $100,000 Bounty on Joey Chestnut's world grilled cheese-eating record.

GoldenPalace.net has announced that it will hold amateur contests...

08-28-2006

Delayed results for the first-ever horseshoe eating championship, a 10-minute competition held at the Illinois State Fair on August 12, 2006. Joey Ch...

08-27-2006

Sonya Thomas banged down a personal best 62 Krystals in today's Square Off qualifier in beautiful Chattanooga, TN. She set a new female record and tie...

08-26-2006

Pat Bertoletti took home the title of World Jalapeno Eating Champion with 177 pickled peppers in 15 minutes. Coming in second was Rich "the Locust" Le...

08-26-2006

Today at the New York State Fair, competing on the stage before the epic band, Color Me Badd, Chip Simpson continued on his streak of impressive perfo...

08-25-2006

The dramatic Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta, GA, will serve as the arena for some of the World’s finest competitive eaters on Sunday, September 3, at ...

08-24-2006

The National Buffalo Wing Festival on Labor Day weekend will host some of the World’s finest competitive eaters in the Buffalo Wing Fest World Buffalo...

08-22-2006

The Krystal Square Off III World Hamburger Eating Championship begins its two-month qualifying circuit this weekend and fans across the world will be ...

08-20-2006

Joey Chestnut edged out Sonya Thomas by two gyoza to win the dumpling contest.

Chestnut ate 212 gyoza to Sonya's 210.

In third was Rich LeF...

08-19-2006

Humble Bob Shoudt dominated in Indianapolis, taking first place in the Toyota Trucks State Fair Chowdown Championship.

Jim the Hammer Hamrick pla...

08-14-2006

Over the weekend, Patrick Bertoletti won the Three Brothers Pizza Eating Championship and took home $2,500 for the effort.

Known as Deep Dish for...

08-13-2006

Joey wins the Ash Creek Baby Back Rib contest with 6.15 pounds of rib meat off the bone in 12 minutes. Chip Simpson places second with 5.80 pounds a...

08-06-2006

Takeru Kobayashi set a new Johnsonville world bratwurst-eating record on August 5, in Sheboygan, WI, by downing 58 of the world-class brats in 10 minu...

08-03-2006

ESPN will televise a one-hour show of the August 5 Johnsonville World Brat-Eating Championship in Sheboygan, an event that features more than $20,000 ...

07-27-2006

Registration begins on this site today for the eight official qualifying contests that comprise the 2006 Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Cha...

07-25-2006

GoldenPalace.net is pleased to present the first-ever horseshoe eating championship. It will be a 10-minute competition and will occur at the Ill...

07-18-2006

Joey Chestnut visited Chattanooga today and downed 28 of Krystal’s famous hamburgers in two minutes, a new short course record.

Chestnut, who is al...

07-16-2006

Mike Castellano reports from the Northern Pacific Coast that America's greatest eater consumed 8.4 pounds of rib meat to win the Chinook Winds Rib Cha...

07-12-2006

As Chestnut, Erik The Red and the Pork Slayer prepare for battle in Oregon this weekend they can benchmark ribs easily by looking at recent events.

...

07-06-2006

Harrah’s Cherokee Casino will play host to a number of the circuit's finest competitive eaters on Friday, July 7, at 7:00 p.m. atthe second annual Har...

07-05-2006

Takeru Kobayashi 53.75 Joey Chestnut 52 Sonya Thomas 37 Patrick Bertoletti 34.25 Tim Janus 34 Chip Simpson 33 Rich LeFevre 28 Bob Shoudt 30 Ba...

07-04-2006

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan ended the 2006 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest as champion once again, setting a new wor...

06-28-2006

Nathan’s Famous will make a donation of 10,000 hot dogs to City Harvest, the world's oldest food rescue organization and a member of Second Harvest, t...

06-27-2006

Eric Badlands Booker ate 30.5 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes at New York City's South Street Seaport to win the Nathan's Famous qualifier for a seat...

06-27-2006

Thai eating officials recently contacted the IFOCE with an offer to sponsor an American eater to represent Thailand in the Nathan’s Famous Internation...

06-26-2006

Hall Hunt, an eating champion from Florida, has been named the 2006 Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest Wild Card Contestant.

Th...

06-25-2006

Shoo-Fly Pie Day in Lancaster, Pa is as recognizable as 4th of july in Coney Island. The gods of Competetive Eating held off the rain long enough to s...

06-24-2006

The O.C.'S Jalapeno Jed Donahue made California proud at the Daly City Nathan's Famous qualifier by eating 19.5 HDBs today, earning a spot in Coney. J...

06-24-2006

Bob Shoudt won the Shoo Fly Pie eating contest with well north of 9 pounds.

Eater X took 2nd place. Details to follow. ...

06-24-2006

The annual Nathan's Famous qualifier at Zoo Atlanta drew a near-capacity crowd and the fans were thrilled by the finest assemblage of eaters to ever c...

06-24-2006

Allen "The Shredder" Goldstein consumed a personal best of 21.5 HDBs to take the LI Ducks Nathan's Famous qualifier and earn a seat at the table on Ju...

06-23-2006

Competitive eating fans gathered on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike for the 4th installment of the Molly Pitcher Nathan's Famous Hot Dog qualifier...

06-22-2006

Competitive Eating newcomer Seaver Miller edged out accomplished veteran Jim Reeves in the QVC Nathan's Famous Qualifier today in West Chester, PA. S...

06-21-2006

As the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Circuit comes down to its final qualifiers in Philly, New Jersey, Atlanta and New York, the wild card race is he...

06-19-2006

Bob Shoudt showed the faith of Thomas Aquinas and the wisdom of a Jedi Knight this past weekend to win the Shea Stadium nathan's qualifier and earn a ...

06-17-2006

Chip Simpson underscored the incredible ability of eating's 'young guns' today by eating 38 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in the Mall of America q...

06-17-2006

Tim Janus won the Milwaukee Harley Davidson Johnsonville Brat-Eating Contest in Milwaukee on Saturday, downing 29 of the top-rated brats in 10 minutes...

06-14-2006

Ribs will be the focus as top eaters gather in the shadow of Great Smokey Mountains National Park for the Harrah’s Rib-Eating Contest. A total of $5,...

06-11-2006

Joey Chestnut continued his amazing rise in the eating world, downing 47 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes to win the GoldenPalace.net World Gri...

06-10-2006

Big Brian Subich took his first Nathan's qualifier by downing 20.5 HDBs in 12 minutes.

The event almost went to overtime as Hall Hunt was a scant...

06-10-2006

It has been determined that seats for the August 5 Johnsonville Brat-Eating Championship -- which will feature $20,000 in prizes -- will be available ...

06-04-2006

The Chinook Winds Casino will hold the 2006 Chinook Winds World Rib Eating Championship on July 15 and July 16, 2006, in Lincoln City, OR. The event ...

06-03-2006

Henderson, NV, resident Rich LeFevre consumed 28 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes to win the Nathan's Famous qualifier at the Arizona Mills Mall in Tem...

06-02-2006

There will be an amateur Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Boston this weekend as part of the 16th annual Hot Dog Safari, which is hosted by E...

05-31-2006

GoldenPalace.net will hold three grilled cheese-eating contests – one of which will offer $100,000 to an amateur who can break the world grilled chees...

05-30-2006

Nathan's Famous has added a last-minute regional qualifier to the preliminary circuit this year. The event will take place at the QVC shopping studio...

05-27-2006

Chip Simpson won the House of Blues Wing-Eating Contest in Cleveland, Ohio, consuming 3 pounds 15 ounces of wings in eight minutes, or approximately 9...

05-27-2006

Sonya Thomas set a new Philadelphia record by eating 36.5 HDBs in 12 minutes at a Nathan's Famous qualifier. Bob Shoudt second with 28, Brian Subich ...

05-26-2006

Patrick Bertoletti won the GoldenPalace.net World Ice Cream Eating Contest by consuming 1.75 gallons of ice cream in eight minutes.

Crazy Legs Cont...

05-25-2006

GoldenPalace.net will hold a GoldenPalace.net Grilled Cheese Eating Contest with $5,000 in prizes on Saturday, June 10, 2005 as part of an Arena Footb...

05-24-2006

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, eaters will vie for the world ice cream title at the GoldenPalace.net World Ice Cream-Eating Championship. The ei...

05-22-2006

Eater X took his second straight Nathan's Famous qualifier in Connecticut this past weekend by downing a personal best 27.5 HDBs. While X was the fav...

05-18-2006

Joey Chestnut devoured 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes today to set a new American record in the Las Vegas qualifier of the Nathan's Famous Fourth ...

05-15-2006

Eaters begin traveling America this week as the Nathan's Famous circuit kicks into high gear. On Thursday, Rich LeFevre will defend his title at the ...

05-08-2006

Rookie Chip Simpson won the the Berryhill Baja Grill tamales-eating contest in Houston over the weekend, beating eating veteran Rich LeFevre and rooki...

05-01-2006

Florida's Jammin' Joe LaRue drew a record crowd to the World Sweet Corn Eating Championship today and he did not disappoint. The top-ranked eater in F...

04-30-2006

Eating fans are welcome to attend as the IFOCE begins filming a new series for InHD on Saturday, May 6, in Islandia, NY (off LIE exit 57 not far from ...

04-30-2006

Florida's Jammin' Joe LaRue drew a record crowd to the World Sweet Corn Eating Championship today, and he did not disappoint. The top-ranked eater in...

04-29-2006

Sonya Thomas, the top-ranked eater in America, won the Phillips Seafood Crab Cake Eating Championship in Baltimore today by consuming 46 three ounce c...

04-26-2006

Eater X was spotted today at the Whole Foods Market on 24th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

The gurgitator known for his fondness for all...

04-22-2006

Rain and hail greeted the gurgitators at the annual Taste of Broadway Ultimate Eating Competition but the event went off as scheduled. Humble Bob Sho...

04-22-2006

Joey Chestnut retained his Asparagus Title in Stockton, CA today by beating Sonya Thomas, the former world record holder, in an incredibly close overt...

04-15-2006

The Nathan's Famous circuit kicked off today in Florida in a fashion befitting the hype the 2006 qualifiers have received.

Jammin' Joe LaRue, the...

04-14-2006

The 2006 Nathan's Famous hot dog-eating circuit begins.

Florida residents Joe LaRue (sweet corn champion) and Hall Hunt will battle out-of-staters ...

04-09-2006

Comfirming what seems to be a new order within the ranks of American competitive eating, Joey Chestnut won the GoldenPalace.net Jalapeno Popper-Eating...

04-09-2006

Crazy Legs Conti topped Coney Island impressario Dick Zigun and set a new world record by downing 92 mini franks in 10 minutes. Zigun, a 52-year-old ...

04-05-2006

Dale Boone has won the Broadway at the Beach Eating Tournament each of the past two years, but the cherubic trash talker will not defend his title in ...

03-31-2006

This year’s Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifying circuit has drawn exceptional interest. Veterans and newcomers alike were...

03-21-2006

Patrick Bertoletti continues his amazing eating juggernaut, downing 10.8 pounds of Key Lime Pie in eight minutes to win the GoldenPalace.net World Key...

03-19-2006

Rich LeFevre, a retired CPA who is really just a college kid a heart, won the GoldenPalace.net Huevos Rancheros-Eating Contest in South Padre Island, ...

03-17-2006

The Berryhill Baja Grill has announced that it will hold a tamales-eating contest on May 6, 2006, in honor of Cinco de Mayo. The 12-minute contest wi...

03-15-2006

Chicago eater Patrick Bertoletti today won the GoldenPalace.net Corned Beef and Cabbage Eating Championship at Ned Devine’s Irish Pub in Boston, consu...

03-10-2006

Dale Boone, the eater known worldwide for his deft hand with reindeer sausage and an uncanny ability to prove the resiliency of today’s machine-milled...

03-03-2006

Jammin’ Joe LaRue, Florida’s reigning Hot Dog Eating Champion who has been inactive since last fall’s devastating hurricane season, recently reported ...

02-28-2006

Host cities for of the 2006 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Circuit have been determined. As in years past, each host city will send one champion to co...

02-23-2006

In an unprecedented move intended to broaden the ever-expanding scope of competitive eating, the IFOCE announced today that the two-event GoldenPalace...

02-15-2006

Following is a list of eater results from the Queen Mary Weinerschnitzel Chili Cheese Fry Contest.

1) Sonya Thomas: 8 pounds 2 ounces 2) Joey Ches...

02-13-2006

Chicago's Patrick Bertoletti was victorious at the GoldenPalace.net St. Valentine’s Day Chocolate Massacre in Chicago. The contest was seven minutes l...

02-11-2006

Sonya Thomas edged out arch-rival Joey Chestnut by one ounce at the Weinerschnitzel World Chili Cheese Fry Eating Championship in Long Beach, CA. Thom...

02-10-2006

Chicago’s Patrick Bertoletti, who credits the music of Irish punk bands as the driving force behind the creation of his signature roast leg of lamb wi...

02-10-2006

Reliable reports now confirm that IFOCE eaters have begun to gather aboard the historic Queen Mary - former transatlantic ocean liner - in Long Beach,...

02-03-2006

Nearly 20,000 competitive eating fans packed Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center for WIP Radio’s 14th Annual Wing Bowl. This year’s contest was unique in ...

02-01-2006

The Passion of the Crust reached its apex today at the GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship when Sonya Thomas edged out Joey Ches...

01-31-2006

Hungry Charles Hardy, IFOCE commissioner and arguably the most respected athlete in the history of the sport, released an important mandate this morni...

01-30-2006

The nation’s top competitive eaters – including 100-pound Sonya Thomas, newcomer Joey Chestnut and surging rookie Patrick Bertoletti -- will meet in M...

01-21-2006

Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas retained her title today at the Plaza Hotel & Casino Big Daddy Burger Eating Contest by devouring the monstrous 9 LB bu...

01-14-2006

At first the news coming over the wire was too shocking to be believed. "It must have been a mistake," people said. "There must have been a judging f...

01-12-2006

The nation's top competitive eaters will converge at the historic Queen Mary - former transatlantic ocean liner - in Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, Febr...

01-11-2006

Competitive eaters from all over the country including Dallas, Chicago and Baton Rouge, will face-off at the Hot Springs International Corned Beef Ea...

01-07-2006

This is what competitive eating is all about! The highly anticipated GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship will be held on Februa...

01-02-2006

<a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=20"Sonya Thomas</a shocked a crowd of 15,000 at the TD Waterhouse Arena on December 30, cons...

12-09-2005

History will be made on January 21, 2006 at 1 p.m. when competitive eating’s finest gurgitators descend upon the Plaza Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, ...

12-03-2005

Cementing her spot at the top of the American meatscape, <a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=20"Sonya Thomas</a consumed 10 lbs....

11-30-2005

IFOCE eaters will sort (not eat) food on December 10 (tentative date) as IFOCE Director of Charitable Giving Michael DeVito holds the "Commissioner's ...

11-29-2005

Eating professionals and talented Arkansas amateurs will chow down January 14 at the first-ever Hot Springs International Corned Beef Eating Champions...

11-26-2005

Never has an eating contest caused such speculation.

The competitive eating community has been talking about newcomer <a href="http://www.ifoce.com...

11-23-2005

With the Thanksgiving Invitational in the books, the eyes of America's top eaters are now turn to Atlantic City in New Jersey, where the <a href="http...

11-22-2005

<a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=106"Joey Chestnut</a, arguably the most promising rookie eater of all time, will join rising...

11-22-2005

With his astonishing 62 Krystals during Saturday’s <a href="http://69.9.168.102/squareoff2005/squareoff.html" target=”blank”Krystal Square Off World H...

11-19-2005

Japan's <a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=22"Takeru Kobayashi</a consumed 67 Krystal hamburgers in eight minutes to win the 20...

11-18-2005

Competitive eater <a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=9"Ed “Cookie” Jarvis</a today stated that he is not the source who first t...

11-18-2005

An extraordinarily buff <a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=22"Takeru Kobayashi</a weighed in at exactly 172 pounds today in Cha...

11-13-2005

The final qualifier of the 2005 <a href="http://69.9.168.102/squareoff2005/squareoff.html" target="blank”Krystal Square Off</a circuit occured today i...

11-12-2005

<a href="http://www.ifoce.com/eaters.php?action=detail&sn=106"Joey Chestnut</a won the <a href="http://www.verizon.com/voicewing/" target="blank"Veriz...

11-10-2005

IFOCE President Richard Shea today announced the <a href="http://www.goldenpalace.net/welcome.php" target=”blank”GoldenPalace.net</a Thanksgiving Invi...

11-08-2005

Julien is on the boards; Badlands Booker on the vocal cords.

The corned beef hash-eating champion of the world is now putting the final touches on ...

11-07-2005

Crazy Legs Conti, nearing the end of what one fan recently dubbed a “less than career year” on the IFOCE circuit, delivered a career performance in th...

11-07-2005

Bubba Yarbrough and Hall Hunt, two high-performing newcomers with something to prove, have best defined the 2005 Krystal circuit and indeed this year'...

11-01-2005

Cookie Jarvis ate 8.95 pounds of wild grapes in 10 minutes to win today's Smirnoff Twisted V Wild Grape World Grape Eating Championship, which was hel...

10-30-2005

It was a tie for second place as doggedly determined Hall Hunt downs 26 Krystals but is matched by a fellow Floridian in the last Georgia Square Off o...

10-29-2005

In a personal rebuke to the avian flu, Sonya Thomas shattered the Buffalo Wing Record at today's Verizon VoiceWing Battle at Union Jack's in Bethesda,...

10-28-2005

Our nation's capitol is gripped with intrigue and speculation today as gurgitators from within the Beltway and beyond ready for tomorrow's Verizon Voi...

10-27-2005

Competitive eating fans will be keenly watching the last three qualifiers of the 2005 Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship to see wh...

10-26-2005

Jed Donahue won the 84 Lumber Baked Bean Eating Contest in Chandler, Arizona, consuming 84 ounces (5.25 pounds) of baked beans in 1 minute, 45 seconds...

10-25-2005

Cookie Jarvis, Badlands Booker, Tim Janus, Patrick Philbin, Don Lerman, Bob Shoudt and Crazy Legs Conti are among the eaters who have signed up for th...

10-23-2005

The Krystal Square Off brought talent to Birmingham. Bubba Yarbrough continued his impressive fall season by consuming 30 Krystals, but the win went ...

10-22-2005

Competitive Eating phenom Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut continued his extraordinary 2005 by setting a new world record of 32.5 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 ...

10-21-2005

Eight of the world’s top competitive eaters will gather at Grand Central Terminal in New York, NY, on Nov. 1, 2005 for the Smirnoff Twisted V Wild Gra...

10-20-2005

Number-three ranked eater Joey Chestnut is on his way to Phoenix to compete in the GoldenPalace.net grilled cheese-eating qualifier this Saturday, whe...

10-18-2005

When Dale Boone finally boarded the plane for India many Americans sighed in relief. Dale had offended so many so often that he had become, arguably,...

10-17-2005

Rookie stalwart Hall Hunt of Florida squeaked out a win over Loren Yarbrough at the North Carolina State Fair, eating 20 grilled cheese sandwiches in ...

10-16-2005

Buffalo Jim Reeves took the Krystal Jackson qualifier with 27 in eight minutes. Close on his heels was Yazoo City native D. Ray who consumed 26. In ...

10-16-2005

Rich LeFevre finally subdued Cookie Jarvis in hard-fought double overtime to win the San Francisco Verizon VoiceWing chicken wing qualifier.

Jarvis...

10-15-2005

Badlands Booker put on a strong performance in Columbia, SC, eating 24 1/2 grilled cheese sandwiches to win $1,000 and a chance at the $20,000 GoldenP...

10-12-2005

IFOCE eaters will span the nation this weekend at eating contests in Columbia, South Carolina; San Francisco, California; Jackson, Mississippi; and Ra...

10-11-2005

If anything could bring Dale Boone back from India it is this.

84 Lumber has announced an 84 Lumber Baked bean Eating Contest on October, 25, to ce...

10-11-2005

‘Jalapeno’ Jed Donahue added another impressive accomplishment to his competitive eating resume on Monday night in Lake Perris, CA, devouring 20 ½ gri...

10-10-2005

Humble Bob Shoudt, a stalwart on the IFOCE circuit, won an official qualifier of the 2005 Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship on Su...

10-08-2005

Cookie Jarvis advanced a winning season by eating 19 grilled cheese sandwiches in Little Rock, Arkansas, to beat a field of 15 gurgitators and earn th...

10-04-2005

Arkansas residents who are also fans of Pat from Moonachie could not ask for a better gift.

The rakish Man from Moonachie, a pizza- and hot dog-eat...

10-03-2005

Rich LeFevre, a Nevada resident who is considered an honorary Texan for his numerous victories in that state, won the Krystal Square-Off at the Texas ...

10-03-2005

Competitive eating phenom Joey Chestnut continued his meteoric rise to the upper echelons of the sport on Saturday, defeating a talented field of eate...

09-29-2005

Epic showdowns are on tap for this weekend's first Verizon VoiceWing Battle in Seattle on Saturday and the next round of the Krystal Square Off at the...

09-26-2005

Sam Vise lived up to his billing on Sunday as perhaps the greatest homegrown Krystal eater of all time, devouring 33 Krystal hamburgers in eight minut...

09-20-2005

Another qualifying round has been added to the GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship circuit at the Arkansas State Fair on Oct. 8....

09-19-2005

Pioneering grilled cheese eaters waged war this weekend on two new IFOCE battlefields: Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City. GoldenPalace.net brought pro...

09-18-2005

Tim Janus won the 2005 Krystal Square Off hamburger-eating qualifier on Sunday, September 18 at the Gwinnett County Fair outside of Atlanta, GA.

Ja...

09-16-2005

Edward Cookie Jarvis delivered an emphatic performance at the International Cannoli Eating Championship that was held today at the 78th Annual Feast o...

09-11-2005

Fresh off his victory over a talented field including Sonya Thomas at the National Buffalo Wing Festival, Eric ‘Badlands’ Booker continued his hot str...

09-06-2005

Verizon has announced it will host the "Verizon VoiceWing Battle" chicken wing eating circuit next month. The battle will feature three qualifiers lea...

09-06-2005

After being handed back-to-back defeats in wings and waffles - at the hands of men - The Black Widow struck back in Chattanooga.

The first of the y...

09-05-2005

Joey Chestnut beat the number-one-ranked American, Sonya Thomas, in Stone Mountain, GA, by eating 18 1/2 eight-ounce Waffle House waffles in 10 minute...

09-04-2005

Road Report: Buffalo & Denver

In a stunning, career performance Eric Badlands Booker took the National Buffalo Wing Eating Championship at Drew Cer...

08-31-2005

The IFOCE has announced that it will use upcoming eating contest events as a platform to raise money for disaster relief efforts on the Gulf Coast.
...

08-28-2005

Tim Janus set a new world record of 31 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes at the Nebraska State Fair, winning $1,000 and replacing Sonya Thomas a...

08-23-2005

The Bluffs Run World Smoked Pork Eating Championship was won by Richard LeFevre, who consumed 7 lbs and one ounce of smoked pork. In second place was...

08-21-2005

Michael Castellano reports from Midway Slots on August 21st, the crabcake results:

In third place with 32 three-ounce crab cakes in 12 minutes, Tim...

08-21-2005

More than 4,000 fans watched in awe as newcomer Patrick Bertoletti, aka Big Shoulders, won his first IFOCE event by downing 21.5 grilled cheeses, the ...

08-21-2005

Ed Cookie Jarvis continues to impress in the second half of 2005 with a win in the Pizza Contest at the New Jersey Tomato Festival. Jarvis downed two...

08-18-2005

The Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest scheduled for Sunday, August 21, in Saratoga, NY, has been cancelled....

08-15-2005

Bob Shoudt triumphed in Saturday’s qualifier of the GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship at the Illinois State Fair.

Shoudt, ...

08-13-2005

Sonya Thomas broke her own world lobster-eating record, consuming 11.3 pounds of Maine lobster meat, the equivalent of 44 lobsters, in 12 minutes to w...

08-11-2005

Walter Hamilton devoured 12 grilled cheese sandwiches in front of thousands of cheering bikers in Sturgis, SD to win a qualifer of the 2005 GoldenPala...

08-10-2005

Registration for GoldenPalace.cnet World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship Circuit events can now be found <a href="http://www.ifoce.com/goldenpalace...

08-09-2005

The top eaters of the famous hot, small, square Krystal Hamburger will walk away with some serious cold, hard cash at the Krystal Square Off World Ham...

08-08-2005

Chattanooga, Tenn., August 8, 2005 – Fast food icon Krystal, along with the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), announced today th...

08-06-2005

History was made in Wisconsin at the Johnsonville Brat eating contest when Sonya Thomas downed 35 of the favorites, obliterating the previous record o...

08-04-2005

Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, VA, won the first in a series of 15 GoldenPalace.net grilled cheese eating contests in San Diego, CA, downing 21.5 grilled...

08-04-2005

Buffalo Jim Reeves achieved an impressive victory at the Brookville Community Picnic in Ohio, besting number-three-ranked Richard LeFevre by eating mo...

08-04-2005

GoldenPalace.net has announced dates for the GoldenPalace.net World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship Circuit. Each event will feature a total of $1,...

08-04-2005

Kennebunkport, Maine, will host the second annual World Lobster-Eating Festival on Saturday, August 13, 2005, from noon to 5 p.m. The event-filled fes...

08-03-2005

The pursuit for America’s Grilled Cheese-Eating championship title begins today as the nation’s leading competitive eaters gather in San Diego, CA, fo...

08-03-2005

Joe LaRue, Jim Reeves, Sonya Thomas and Crazy Legs Conti are among the eaters headed to Buffalo on Labor Day Weekend for the U.S. Buffalo Wing-Eating ...

07-31-2005

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan won the Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating, a three-day, three-hour elimination tournament on ESPN, to earn $10,000 ...

07-27-2005

Wing King Drew Cerza has announced that the U.S. Buffalo Wing-Eating Championship will be held at the fourth annual National Buffalo Wing Festival on ...

07-26-2005

The Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship, an IFOCE-sanctioned competition sponsored by The Sheboygan Jaycees and Johnsonville Sausage, has attr...

07-18-2005

San Jose's Joey Chestnut broke the world rib eating record at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR by consuming 5 1/2 pounds of rib meat in 12 min...

07-12-2005

The first annual Harrah’s Cherokee Rib Eating Contest title was accompanied by a hefty $5,000 in prize money broken down as follows: $2,000 for first ...

07-11-2005

The second installment of the Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship at Bacci Pizzeria in Schiller Park in Chicago drew big names.

Chicago's best t...

07-04-2005

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan sucessfully defended his title at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island by consuming 49 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 mi...

07-01-2005

Chattanooga, Tenn., July 1, 2005 –

When Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi competed in the first ever Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship...

06-28-2005

Some of the world�s finest eaters will converge at the Harrah�s Cherokee Casino & Hotel in Cherokee, NC on Friday, July 8, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. for t...

06-27-2005

The Sheboygan Jaycees and Johnsonville Sausage have announced The Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship, an IFOCE-sanctioned competition to take...

06-26-2005

In Chicago on Saturday, July 9, 2005 the second installment of the Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship will take place. Due to the popularity of piz...

06-26-2005

The Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR, will hold the 2005 Chinook Winds World Rib Eating Championship on July 17, 2005 at the edge of the Pacif...

06-25-2005

Carlene LeFevre took the June 25th Nathan's Famous Atlanta qualifier by consuming 23 Nathan's HDBs in 12 minutes. The outspoken and outeaten Dale Boo...

06-24-2005

"Hungry" Charles Hardy, aka the Godfather, downed 21 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes to take first at the Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza q...

06-24-2005

On July 4, 2005, Nathan’s Famous will donate 10,000 hot dogs to City Harvest, the world's oldest food rescue organization. Nathan’s Famous President ...

06-24-2005

Nathan’s Famous July Fourth International Hot dog Eating Contest

Four-time world champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan will return to the corner of Su...

06-21-2005

Eating veteran Hungry Charles Hardy, who will act as head official judge at the Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating in Las Vegas, today picked ...

06-20-2005

Jammin' Joe LaRue proved again why he's the top-ranked eater in the sunshine state when he won the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Pembroke ...

06-19-2005

Sonya Thomas ate six pounds of Maui's special salty potato balls in eight minutes, 40 seconds to win $2,500. In the same time, Tim Janus consumed jus...

06-15-2005

The world watermelon eating record stands at 11.22 pounds in 15 minutes. Rich LeFevre, America’s top-ranked male eater, set the record in Brookville,...

06-14-2005

Keiji Oguni topped a field of a dozen eaters at the Nathan's Famous qualifier in Tokyo, Japan, by down 19 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. Oguni will...

06-13-2005

Sonya Thomas won the Nathan's Famous qualifier in Norfolk with an impressive 32 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. While the numbers have been up accro...

06-08-2005

Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas added yet another world title to her collection today, winning the MTV Movie Awards World Popcorn Eating Championship w...

06-08-2005

Lancaster, PA's Rockvale Outlets will host the World’s Greatest Shoo-Fly Pie-Eating Championship on June 25, at 3:00 p.m. The Shoo-Fly Pie-Eating titl...

06-05-2005

Two more regional champions have been crowned as Nathan's Famous continues its hotly contested qualifying circuit. Joey Chestnut edged out Hungry Cha...

06-05-2005

Carlene LeFevre squared off against arch rival Ron Koch in Tempe, AZ, for a seat in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog eating Co...

06-03-2005

In advance of the upcoming World Popcorn Eating Contest hosted by MTV in honor of the MYV Movie Awards, MTV has posted a special site for eating fans:...

06-01-2005

The summer beach season will kick into high gear on June 18 as Maui’s Dog House holds the World Salty Ball Potato-Eating Championship on the beach in ...

05-30-2005

Rob Burns, a diminutive first-time eater from Birmingham, England, won the UK Eating Championship by downing 18 pork pies in 12 minutes, just edging o...

05-28-2005

In a Philadelphia nailbiter, new eater Pat from Moonachie ate 20 1/2 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns to edge out a powerful Jim Reeves and qualify f...

05-27-2005

MTV Gathers Nation’s Best Eaters in IFOCE-Sanctioned Event

Hollywood, CA, Friday, May 27, 2005 -- MTV’s Quddus Phillippe will host the First Annual...

05-26-2005

The finest eaters in Kansas will converge at a Dillon’s Food Store in Wichita in an effort to win the title of Kansas Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog-Eating C...

05-26-2005

An official qualifier for the 2005 Nathan's Famous International Fourth of July will occur on at 12 noon on June 4th at Century Theatres in San Franci...

05-22-2005

Rich LeFevre extended his winning streak last week at the New York New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas by downing 27 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and bun...

05-21-2005

Tim Janus earned top honors at the second qualifier of the 2005 Nathan's Famous circuit by eating 22 1/2 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes, tying the pe...

05-17-2005

Some of the world’s finest eaters will converge in Lewisville, TX, on June 4, at 1:00pm for the World Tamale-Eating Championship. This title, respecte...

05-12-2005

The Fourth Annual National Buffalo Wing Festival has announced that it will host the U.S. Buffalo Wing-Eating Championship on September 4, 5 and 6, 20...

05-10-2005

Rich LeFevre today won the world cake-eating contest celebrating the first birthday of TripRewards, the world’s largest hotel loyalty program, by eati...

05-06-2005

The two fastest growing sports in America will converge on May 28, 2005, when the Armour® Vienna Sausage Eating World Championship is held at NASCAR’s...

05-04-2005

Top American eaters, including William “The Refrigerator” Perry, will compete in a cake-eating contest at Grand Central Station to celebrate the first...

04-25-2005

Dale Boone won the Broadway at the Beach Ultimate Eating Competition for the second year in a row, shaking off local muscle-mouth Don Schaefer in the ...

04-22-2005

Ed Cookie Jarvis, Jed Donahue, Rich and Carlene LeFevre, Jammin Joe LaRue and Dale 'Mouth of the South' Boone are among the big name eaters criss-cros...

04-20-2005

In a hotly contested match, Eric Badlands Booker again took the matzo ball title by consuming 30 matzo balls in five minutes, 25 seconds, at the Ruthi...

04-18-2005

The eating world is focused on The Ruthie & Gussie’s/Empire Kosher Matzo Ball-Eating Championship at the Friar’s Club in New York City, 57 E. 55th St....

04-14-2005

The 3rd Annual Broadway at the Beach Ultimate Eating Tournament will take place during the Taste of Broadway Spring Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC on Sa...

04-13-2005

Eric ‘Badlands’ Booker consumed 7 pounds of strawberries in four minutes to beat a field of college eaters at Southeastern Louisiana University and wi...

04-11-2005

Rich LeFevre continued his impressive winning streak at the Boomtown Casino & Hotel in Reno, NV, by downing 5.75 pounds of Maine lobster meat from the...

04-06-2005

The official contest schedule has been announced for the 2005 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest:

May 19 - New Yor...

04-05-2005

The world’s most celebrated competitive eaters will converge at the Stockton Asparagus Festival in Stockton, CA on April 23, for the World Deep-Fried ...

03-31-2005

Cookie Jarvis came back big today in Oceanside, NY, winning the Nathan's Famous World French Fry Eating Championship by downing a total of 4.46 pounds...

03-24-2005

Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman and Eric Booker are among the eaters who will compete at Nathan’s Famous in Oceanside, NY, on March 31, 2005 for the first-e...

03-24-2005

Newcomers showed promise in the Veggie on a Stick Amateur Eating Challenge, but the professionals showed them how it's done.

The contest was held a...

03-21-2005

Amateur Eaters, this is your opportunity to compEAT against the best when IFOCE and FOX cook up an eating contest celebrating the series premiere of t...

03-20-2005

Sonya Thomas shocked the world by smashing her own record of 36 dozen oysters in 10 minutes at the Acme World Oyster Eating Championship in Metairie, ...

03-17-2005

Some of America’s top competitive eaters will square off at Boomtown Casino and Hotel Reno’s Lobster-Eating Challenge on April 9, 2005.

Designed to...

03-15-2005

Competitive Eating fans throughout the southeast are gearing up to watch Sonya Thomas defend her title at the 2005 Acme World Oyster Eating Championsh...

03-12-2005

Rich LeFevre took first prize -- a trip for two to Hawaii valued at $4,000 -- at the ‘GameWorks World Tex Mex Roll-Eating Championship presented by Gr...

03-07-2005

The International Federation of Competitive Eating will hold a UK Eating Championship in England, on Sunday May 1, 2005.

The 12-minute, all-you-can...

03-06-2005

Verducci's Market in Ringoes, NJ, hosted a remarkably dramatic IFOCE Title Rally yesterday, which will appear on the high-definition network, INHD, as...

03-04-2005

Competitive eaters will make their annual pilgrimage to West Palm Beach, FL, on Sunday, April 24, for the National Sweet Corn-Eating Championship. Th...

03-04-2005

America’s finest competitive eaters will assemble at Nathan’s Famous in Oceanside, NY, on March 31, 2005 for the first-ever Nathan’s Famous World Fren...

03-04-2005

Ruthie & Gussie’s, the world’s premier Kvetch-Proof ready-to-cook kosher food line, and Empire Kosher, the world's largest producer of kosher poultry ...

02-24-2005

The 2005 IFOCE Title Rally will occur at Verducci's Specialty Market in Ringoes, New Jersey on March 5th. This event will feature a variety of Italia...

02-16-2005

The 2005 Acme World Oyster Eating Championship will occur on Sunday, March 20th, and serve as the anchor event of the Grand Opening Celebration of Acm...

02-16-2005

Auburn Hills, MI – Only eight months after the Detroit Pistons secured the NBA Championship title, Michigan looks forward to the crowning of another n...

02-12-2005

Sonya Thomas took the GoldenPalace.com World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship by consuming 25 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes.

Orange Co...

02-04-2005

Bill 'El Wingador' Simmons achieved one of the greatest comebacks in sports history today by defeating Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, Cookie Jarvis a...

02-03-2005

February 4, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, 3:30 AM -- They have drained every spigot in Philadelphia. They have emptied every beer barrell from Wilmington t...

02-02-2005

The $10,000.00 in prize money for the Goldenpalace.com World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship will be broken down as follows:

$3,500.00 (first p...

01-22-2005

The Plaza Hotel's famed nine-pound Barrick Burger was put away by America’s top-ranked eater Sonya Thomas in 48 minutes and 10 seconds. Rich LeFevre ...

01-13-2005

It will be a cross between a major sporting event and a religious pilgrimage when the nation’s top competitive eaters gather in Venice Beach, CA, for ...

01-11-2005

The first weekend in February is a time when months of preparation, training and hard work culminate in one of the greatest and most highly anticipate...

12-31-2004

History will be made on January 22nd, 2005 when competitive eating’s finest gurgitators converge at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV for on...

12-30-2004

The IFOCE wishes its members, sponsors, fans and friends a very Happy New Year 2005. Without a doubt, 2004 was the greatest year ever in the history ...

12-16-2004

Hungry Charles Hardy, Ed Cookie Jarvis and Crazy Legs Conti qualified for Wing Bowl today at WIP in Philadelphia. They ate burritos, spinach and Twin...

12-14-2004

Hungry & Focused, the debut rap album by top-ranked eater Badlands Booker, has proven extraordinarily popular on the IFOCE website, selling rapidly in...

12-13-2004

Noted Southern Eating Champ, Nick Stipelcovich Jr., died last week. Stipelcovich, 54, a bar and restaurant owner, competed successfully in Louisiana ...

12-10-2004

Eater X has qualified for WIP Wing Bowl XIII by consuming 5 pounds of cottage cheese in 2 minutes 30 seconds. Jarvis, Booker and Hardy are expected t...

12-09-2004

The citizens of Buffalo and the world will have to wait to see a new fruitcake champion crowned. The World Fruitcake Eating Championship is postponed ...

12-04-2004

Eric Badlands Booker, Hungry Charles Hardy and Rich LeFevre battled back and forth for first place in the early minutes of the Tropicana World Meatbal...

11-30-2004

Don Moses Lerman and Krazy Kevin Lipsitz are the first two eaters to qualify for WIP's Wingbowl XIV. Lerman consumed three pounds of baked beans in 6...

11-30-2004

The Tropicana Casino and Resort will host the Tropicana World Meatball-Eating Championship in Atlantic City, NJ, on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. A total o...

11-29-2004

Sonya Thomas delivered an exciting performance during halftime of the Orlando Magic/Philadelphia 76ers game in Orlando on Saturday, November 27. In j...

11-25-2004

Competitive eating has received amazing media coverage during the past five years, but perhaps nothing tops a recent news feature on the Thanksgiving ...

11-24-2004

The IFOCE's Tour de Gorge series kicks off on Thanksgiving night, November 25, at 7 pm, with the Zocalo Taco Eating Contest at Grand Central Terminal ...

11-22-2004

Eric Badlands Booker came on strong at Chelsea Market to win the Entenmann's Pies Thanksgiving Invitational, consuming 4 3/8 pumpkin pies in six minu...

11-22-2004

Carlene LeFevre of Henderson, NV, consumed a whopping 109.75-ounces of posole in 12 minutes to conquer the Sky City Casino World Posole Eating Champio...

11-20-2004

Badlands Booker and Sonya Thomas engaged in hard-fought battle in St. Louis, trading ravioli for ravioli at the Harrah's World Toasted Ravioli Eating ...

11-19-2004

Crazy Legs Conti of New York City will make his way to Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, this weekend in a moving effort to win his mother the perfect Christm...

11-19-2004

Eater X (Tim Janus), Crazy Legs Conti and Sonya Thomas are expected to travel to St. Louis, MO, attend the Harrah’s World Toasted Ravioli-Eating Champ...

11-19-2004

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - All eyes will be on Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ, on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, when a handful of the nation's fi...

11-17-2004

INHD, cable’s most widely distributed all high-definition networks, have teamed up with the IFOCE to introduce a new, larger-than-life high-definition...

11-14-2004

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan showed his dominance yet again at the Krystal Square Off in Chattanooga, TN, by eating 69 Krystals in eight minutes to win $...

11-11-2004

Florida’s Harry Richter has long been a fan of competitive eating. In recent years his wife has maintained a focus on family and profession while Har...

11-08-2004

After 11 regional qualifiers, 273 preliminary bouts, 1743 total contestants, and 17,688 of the mouthwatering, cult-craving, two and a half inch, squar...

11-03-2004

The World Posole Eating Championship, sponsored by the Sky City Casino, will be held in Acoma, NM, on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004, at 3 PM. Posole is a ste...

11-02-2004

The Krystal Company announced plans today to allow a final wild card birth in the Nov. 13th Krystal World Hamburger Championship in Chattanooga, TN, a...

11-02-2004

St Louis, already known as one of the nation’s most renowned sports towns, will enhance that reputation on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004, when the nation’s ...

11-01-2004

With his devoted cult of fans known as ‘The Pit Crew’ cheering wildly, Bill ‘The Bottomless Pit’ Pendleton cruised to a Halloween victory last night a...

11-01-2004

Dale Boone continued his string of baked bean eating victories, winning his third 84 Lumber contest in a row over top American eater Sonya Thomas. Th...

10-28-2004

”Everything is big in Texas, and that includes my appetite,” said Randy Harrison of Seguin, TX. Harrison is registered to compete in this Saturday’s 8...

10-25-2004

Embarking on what he called “a personal quest,” Joe LaRue left Hollywood in the October Saturday pre-dawn and traveled north. Hours later he arrived ...

10-24-2004

Jammin' Joe LaRue won the 84 Lumber Baked Bean-Eating Contest in Deland, FL, beating Eater X and Buffalo Jim Reeves by downing 84 ounces of baked bean...

10-22-2004

IFOCE eaters hit the road this weekend for a number of different contests in the Southeast. Rookie Tim Janus and Buffalo Jim Reeves fly to Florida fr...

10-20-2004

Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas added yet another prestigious title to her ever expanding collection by devouring 8.62 pounds of sweet potato casserole...

10-19-2004

The IFOCE makes a string of stops in the next five days, with $7,000 on the line at three different events in North Carolina, Florida and Georgia, and...

10-18-2004

Dale Boone delivered a masterful come-from-behind victory to beat Cookie Jarvis in Summerville, SC, at the kick-off of the 84 Lumber baked bean eating...

10-18-2004

St Louis, already known as one of the nation’s most renowned sports towns, will enhance that reputation on Nov. 21, 2004, when the nation’s top compet...

10-17-2004

Jim Reeves devoured 32 Krystals in eight minutes at the Mississippi State Fair to win an official qualifier of the 2004 Krystal World Hamburger Eating...

10-15-2004

The honor of the Carolinas will rest on the shoulders of local resident Charles Bullard at the 84 Lumber Company World Baked Bean-Eating Championship ...

10-14-2004

In the shadow of the Hank Williams museum, and surrounded by an estimated 1,000 eating fans, the beautiful Carlene LeFevre consumed 27 Krystals to...

10-13-2004

Top eaters assemble in Montgomery, Alabama, for the next event in the ongoing Krystal Square Off circuit, which has moved like a juggernaut through th...

10-11-2004

Rich 'The Locust' LeFevre kept his string of strong gustatory performances intact yesterday by polishing off 38 Krstal Hamburgers in eight minutes to ...

10-07-2004

The Krystal Square Off, the Krystal Company’s 10-event hamburger-eating circuit, moves on to Macon, GA, as it winds its way through the Southeast to t...

10-06-2004

Oyster Productions' documentary, "Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating" will air Wednesday, October 13th at 9PM on A&E. The documentary, which follo...

10-04-2004

‘Hungry’ Charles Hardy, the Godfather of eating and the 6 ranked eater in the world, won the Atlanta qualifier of the 2004 Krystal Square Off on Sunda...

10-01-2004

The competitive eating community paused today as Ray ‘The Bison’ Meduna, the top ranked eater in the Northwest and the World Sweet Kolache Eating Cham...

10-01-2004

The 84 Lumber Company and the IFOCE have announced the kickoff of the 84 Lumber World Baked Bean Eating Championship.

The six-contest circuit is ex...

09-29-2004

Sonya Thomas consumed 48 soft tacos in 11 minutes to win the Zocalo Taco-Eating championship at the Inside Out Festival at Grand Central Terminal in M...

09-29-2004

Another highly regarded gurgitator fell at the hands of an unheralded southern eater on Tuesday, September 28, as Sam Vise destroyed the Krystal dream...

09-27-2004

Eric Badlands Booker won the World Cheesecake-Eating Championship at the Downtown Atlantic Restaurant during Brooklyn's 30th annual Atlantic Antic Fes...

09-24-2004

Taco, egg and oyster champion Sonya Thomas, cannoli champion Eric Badlands Booker and surging rookie Tim Janus are among those who will face off at th...

09-23-2004

Rich ‘The Locust’ LeFevre, long classified in competitive eating circles as a distance specialist, put this label to rest Wednesday evening in Los Ang...

09-21-2004

At stake is $1,500 in prize money and the prestigious title of World Donut-Eating Champion as America's top eaters travel to the Los Angeles County Fa...

09-21-2004

$3,000.00 in prize money and the prestigious title of World Sweet Potato Casserole Eating Champion will be on the line Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 20, 2...

09-20-2004

Knoxville resident Jeff Hicks beat chicken wing eating specialist El Wingador, Bill Simmons, at the Tennessee Valley Fair in Knoxville, eating 22 Krys...

09-19-2004

In what is easily the most hard-fought battle in competitive eating history, Badlands Booker took the Cannoli Belt at the Feast of the San Gennaro wit...

09-15-2004

In a scene reminiscent of the Rocky Balboa vs. Apollo Creed fight in the movie 'Rocky', Cookie Jarvis fended off an unheralded newcomer named Lynn Cur...

09-09-2004

Eaters are preparing for the Downtown Atlantic Cheesecake Eating Contest to be held as part of the 30th annual Atlantic Antic festival on Sunday, Sept...

09-09-2004

Santa Ana, CA, September 9, 2004 – A star-studded lineup of competitive eating champions will converge in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, September 22, ...

09-07-2004

On September 17, Little Italy’s 77th Annual Feast of San Gennaro will hold the World Cannoli-Eating Contest in Manhattan's Little Italy.

Ed Cookie...

09-07-2004

The Krystal Square Off hamburger eating championship circuit moves on to Tennessee, with events at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville on September ...

09-07-2004

Sonya Thomas topped a field of 16 eaters in Buffalo, NY, on Sunday, September 5, to win the U.S. Chicken Wing-Eating Championship before a crowd of 10...

09-01-2004

The quest begins on Labor Day Weekend, September 3 - 6, in Chattanooga, when fast food icon Krystal holds the inaugural Krystal Square Off® World Hamb...

08-24-2004

Top IFOCE eaters are preparing to compete at the U.S. Buffalo Wing-Eating Championship at the third annual National Buffalo Wing Festival on Labor Day...

08-22-2004

Maine lobster-eating champion Kevin Cross faced an extraordinary challenge when Sonya Thomas, Cookie Jarvis, Badlands Booker, Hungry Charles Hardy, Cr...

08-16-2004

A decisive victory by Sonya Thomas in the 84 Lumber baked bean-eating contest in Centerville, Indiana, has set off a frenzy among eating afficionados,...

08-12-2004

When fast food icon Krystal holds the inaugural Krystal Square Off® World Hamburger Eating Championship from this September to November and crowns the...

08-11-2004

Mo's Irish Pub in Milwaukee has announced the following prize money for this Saturday's Corned Beef Challenge. Grand Prize is $1,000; Second place is ...

08-10-2004

Beef-eating powerhouse Ed Cookie Jarvis is scheduled to challenge Milwaukee's most daring eaters when Mo's Irish Pub hosts its Anniversary Corned Beef...

08-09-2004

Sonya Thomas returned to Indiana, the same state where she set the hard-boiled egg eating record as a rookie in 2003, and downed 8.4 pounds of baked b...

08-09-2004

Eric Badlands Booker won the Maui Onion Challenge and the beautiful Maui Onion Lei by consuming 9 ounces of raw Maui Onion in just one minute. Former ...

08-02-2004

America’s 1 and 2 Ranked Eaters Set To Collide in Indiana

The Brickyard 500 won’t be the only world class sporting event held in Indiana this wee...

07-28-2004

Maui, HI, will be more than an island paradise on Sunday, August 8, 2004 as the Whalers Village Maui Onion Festival holds the 2004 World Maui Onion Ea...

07-27-2004

The World Lobster-Eating Championship, which will be held as part of the World Lobster-Eating Festival on Saturday, August 21, 2004 next to the Taint ...

07-26-2004

Rich LeFevre continued his eating dominance in Ohio, winning the "Swellin' with Melon" watermelon eating contest at the Brookville Community Picnic by...

07-26-2004

IFOCE Rookie of the Year Nominee Allan "The Shredder" Goldstein is rumored to be checking out MapQuest for the most direct route to Kennebunkport, Mai...

07-22-2004

A ruling from the desk of IFOCE President Richard Shea has approved the use of salt in the upcoming Swellin' with Melon watermelon-eating contest at t...

07-19-2004

Richard LeFevre won the Chinook Winds World Rib Eating Championship at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR, to earn $1,250 and the title of t...

07-15-2004

When Cookie Jarvis boards the plane from New York to Oregon, he will face a nine-hour trip – 2,000 miles in the air and 200 miles on the ground – to t...

07-12-2004

At the conclusion of the eight minute Winchell's World Donut Eating qualifier in Orange County on Saturday, July 10, Ray Meduna had consumed 24 ¼ Winc...

07-09-2004

Santa Ana, CA, July 9, 2004 – Jammin' Joe LaRue, Don Moses Lerman, and Ray Meduna will compete at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday...

07-07-2004

Will Cookie Jarvis return to defend his title?

This is the question on the lips of competitive eaters throughout the United States as the Chinook W...

07-07-2004

Eaters are eagerly anticipating “Swellin’ with Mellon” at the annual Brookville Community Picnic in Brookville, Ohio, on Saturday, July 24, 2004. Thi...

07-06-2004

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan achieved an unprecedented four-peat on July 4, winning the annual Nathan's Famous dogfest with a new world record of 53.5 ho...

07-03-2004

BetUS.com, the world’s leading offshore gaming company, today released official odds for the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eati...

07-01-2004

The following eaters will compete in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Godfrey Bertelsen Manchester, Engl...

06-28-2004

As the Nathan's Famous qualifying season winds down, two more eaters have secured seats for the Fourth of July International Hot Dog eating Contest in...

06-28-2004

The annual Brookville Community Picnic in Brookville, Ohio on Saturday, July 24, 2004, will feature tractor pulling, bingo, a 5k run and the first-eve...

06-28-2004

No utensils will be necessary and no condiments allowed during ESPN’s inaugural telecast of the 2004 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest live from Coney I...

06-25-2004

El Wingador triumphed in his second-ever attempt in the hot dog discipline, winning the Nathan's Famous qualifier at the Molly Pitcher Travel Plaza in...

06-21-2004

There was little if any competition for the great Joe LaRue at the Nathan's Famous qualifier at the Pembroke Lakes Mall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ...

06-15-2004

Collard Green had the crowd behind him on Saturday at the MacArthur Center Mall in Norfolk. Men nodded encouragement, children waved, women wept. Th...

06-14-2004

Shockwaves rippled through the competitive eating community on Saturday, June 12, as ‘Jalapeno’ Jed Donahue pulled off an unexpected upset by winning ...

06-10-2004

To memorialize the world’s greatest eating athletes, Nathan’s Famous has established an enormous three story high Hot Dog Eating Wall of Fame featurin...

06-07-2004

In a field of 17 men and one woman there was no contest. Henderson Nevada resident Carlene LeFevre won going away at the sixth annual Arizona Mills M...

06-02-2004

Fast food icon Krystal has announced that it will host the first ever World Hamburger Eating Championship. Billed as the Krystal Square Off® and expe...

06-01-2004

The world’s finest competitive eaters will converge in Chicago, IL, on Saturday, June 19, 2004 for the Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship. On the l...

06-01-2004

Santa Ana, CA, May 28, 2004 – The world’s finest competitive eaters will converge at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar, CA on Saturday, June 12, 20...

06-01-2004

A slew of new eaters qualified for the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest over the long weekend. Rich LeFevre set a ...

05-24-2004

The world’s finest competitive eaters will converge in Southern California this summer and fall for the Winchell’s World Donut Eating Championship. W...

05-24-2004

It is rare to find a man with greater sense of style than William, "Black Tie" Stobierski, the Connecticut eating champion who frequently wears a tuxe...

05-21-2004

Competitive eating fans in Columbus, Ohio, witnessed intense emotional drama as a rookie prospect beat several veteran eaters in the final moments of ...

05-17-2004

Ed "Cookie" Jarvis took his third straight Boston Hot Dog Eating Title by downing 24 Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs and Buns to qualify for a spot in the Na...

05-10-2004

Rich LeFevre downed 25 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns at the Kenny Rogers Roasters/Nathan's Famous Restaurant in Hollywood on Saturday, May 8th to ...

05-06-2004

Top competitive eaters will gather in Columbus, Ohio, for the Zyng Asian Grill World Noodle-Eating Championship. The 10-minute contest will begin at 3...

05-04-2004

In a never-before-attempted stunt, renowned competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti was buried alive under more than 60 cubic feet of popcorn inside a life...

04-27-2004

The release of the 2004 Nathan's Famous qualifying circuit has prompted a wave of handicapping, with eating experts suggesting that several Americans ...

04-26-2004

Dale Boone won the second annual Broadway at the Beach Ultimate Eating Tournament on Sunday, April 25, besting Don Moses Lerman, Collard Green, Pavel ...

04-26-2004

The big men came to the table Sunday, April 25, for the Sweet Corn Eating Championship in Palm Beach, Flordia, shocking the crowd with a display of ea...

04-26-2004

Nathan’s Famous has announced the schedule for the 2004 Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifying circuit. Registration for the circuit, will ...

04-22-2004

The world record for oyster eating fell hard at the 2004 Acme Oyster Eating Contest at New Orleans' French Quarter Festival. Sonya Thomas doubled the...

04-22-2004

Jammin' Joe LaRue sent a loud message to the world of competitive eating at the Footy's Y-100 Wing Ding in Miami by eating 124 buffalo chicken wings i...

04-22-2004

Don Moses Lerman and Dale Boone, arguably the world's greatest sprinters, will test their respective skills at the Broadway at the Beach Ultimate Eati...

04-22-2004

The competitive eating community is buzzing over the caliber of eaters attending the 2004 Sweet Corn Fiesta -- and most expect a dramatic new record. ...

04-16-2004

When he takes the stage at the French Quarter Festival for Acme’s World Oyster Eating Championship, Robert Passman will be competing in his first IFOC...

03-19-2004

The Taste of Broadway Festival will hold the Broadway at the Beach Eating Tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC, on April 24, 2004. Competitive eaters will ...

03-16-2004

Ed Cookie Jarvis added another title to his trench coat by eating a total of six pounds of Corned Beef and Cabbage to beat a field of 12 gurgitators a...

03-10-2004

The 2004 Acme World Oyster Eating Championship is fixing to be incredibly exciting with top-ranked gurgitators vying for $1750 in prize money. Oyster...

03-02-2004

The IFOCE SPAM®-eating contest on Saturday, April 3, 2004, will be the culmination of an emotional journey for eating enthusiasts everywhere.

The c...

03-01-2004

The J. Freirich Company Corned Beef & Cabbage Eating Contest, to be held at Moran.s Restaurant on March 16, will include a diverse field.

Eaters wi...

02-25-2004

Sonya Thomas has secured another title, Crawfish Jambalaya. The hottest eater on the circuit downed nine pounds of the Cajun dish in 10 minutes to wi...

02-25-2004

The National Sweet Corn-Eating Championship will take place on Sunday, April 25, 2004, at the Sweet Corn Fiesta at the South Florida Fairgrounds in We...

02-24-2004

Not surprisingly, the IFOCE has received a slew of requests (up to eight a day, and that is from only one eater) for the time of the deep-fried aspara...

02-21-2004

Amazing victories today at the IFOCE title rally at the Downtown Atlantic in Brooklyn. The rally, overseen by Hungry Charles Hardy and Cookie Jarvis,...

02-16-2004

The IFOCE will hold a three-event title rally leading up to title match between Eric Booker and Sonya Thomas. The eye-opener of an event will take pl...

02-03-2004

The J. Freirich Company, which has been a leading provider of corned beef brisket for the better part of a century, will sponsor a Corned Beef & Cabba...

02-02-2004

The IFOCE will hold a SPAM®-eating contest on Saturday, April 3, 2004, as part of SPAMARAMA., a culinary cultural festival in Austin, TX, featuring a ...

02-02-2004

The IFOCE will run a Mardis Gras Crawfish Jambalaya Eating Chmapionship at Lulu's Club Mardi Gras in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2004. The winner...

01-30-2004

In a dramatic one-on-one overtime victory against top-ranked American gurgitator Ed Cookie Jarvis, Sonya Thomas won 610 WIP.s Wing Bowl XII this morni...

01-27-2004

Eric Badlands Booker rapped his way to a repeat victory at Ben's Annual Charity Matzo Ball Eating Contest, consuming 20 1/4 matzo balls in 5 minutes 2...

01-27-2004

.Hungry. Charles Hardy led a squad of five USC eaters to victory in the first-ever Carl.s Jr. Low-Carb Six Dollar Burger-Eating Contest, topping the S...

01-22-2004

With the roster for the Ben's Annual Charity Matzo Ball Eating Contest in place, handicappers are struggling to get a handle on the win, place, show o...

01-21-2004

Cookie Jarvis fought off the greatest challenge of his eating career at Hooters in Manhattan today, beating rookie Sonya Thomas by consuming 134 chick...

01-20-2004

The Stockton Asparagus Festival will host a deep-fried asparagus-eating contest on April 24, 2004 as a highlight of its 19th annual event in Stockton,...

01-13-2004

During the past several weeks the competitive eating community has eagerly followed the qualifying process for the upcoming 610 WIP Wing Bowl XII to b...

01-09-2004

Carl.s Jr. will present the first-ever Six-Dollar Burger eating contest in Los Angeles on January 27, 2004. The event will consist of two competitive ...

01-05-2004

Louisiana native Boyd Bulot led an LSU eating squad against Crazy Legs Conti and an OU eating squad in the first-ever Louisiana Oyster Bowl that aired...

12-30-2003

Sonya Thomas won the first-ever fruitcake-eating contest by a bite -- 1/8th of an ounce to be specific.

Thomas beat Eric Badlands Booker, Jim Reeve...

12-11-2003

The IFOCE will travel to Buffalo in late December with a daunting mandate: consume all the uneaten fruitcakes in the United States.

A group of busi...

12-11-2003

The International Federation of Competitive Eating will officialy sanction the seventh Ben's Annual Charity Matzo Ball Eating Contest to be held on Ja...

12-10-2003

"What's up Philly, I got bad news. Too few chews means you gonna loose."

Those might be the rhymes from Badlands Booker as he takes the stage with...

11-26-2003

IFOCE Features Turducken (Turkey, Duck, Chicken) in 2003.s Final Championship Event New York, NY, Nov. 26, 2003 . 100-pound rookie eater Sonya Thoma...

11-25-2003

IFOCE eaters will focus their energy on sorting rather than eating on December 20 as the IFOCE holds the Commissioner.s Volunteer Day at the Monmouth ...

11-24-2003

Rumors ran rampant during the past several weeks as competitive eating fans tried to get a handle on the handicapping of the Thanksgiving Meal Invitat...

11-06-2003

Thanksgiving, and the IFOCE.s Thanksgiving Invitational, will never be the same.

Turducken.com, the world.s leading provider of turducken (a semi-b...

11-03-2003

Eric Badlands Booker joined a Willy Wonka-styled Crazy Legs Conti at MTV.s Time Square studios for a special Halloween taping of Total Request Live. ...

11-03-2003

The Chicken Fried Steak Eating Championships recently occurred in Austin, Texas, with tireless competitors Dale Boone and Ed .Cookie. Jarvis in attend...

10-29-2003

After failing to gain recognition from the academic community for more than five years, a ground-breaking piece of science from the IFOCE.s research d...

10-24-2003

There is no instant replay in competitive eating, but speculation over a missing plate at a recent match caused a flurry of tape watching. At the pas...

10-20-2003

Ari Fleischer, Fred Willard and famed NBA dunker Darryl Dawkins joined Cookie Jarvis, Hungry Charles Hardy and Crazy Legs Conti on the first installme...

10-20-2003

The first-ever officially sanctioned Chicken Fried Steak-Eating Competition will take place on November 2nd at the Lone Star Café in Austin. The comp...

10-17-2003

You can understand why people used to scoff when the prophesy was mentioned. Ten years ago it was inconceivable that the Coveted Mustard Yellow Belt ...

10-14-2003

The plates were flying at Paesano.s of Little Italy on Monday, October 13th as top eaters competed in the Columbus Day Pasta-Eating Contest. The cont...

10-13-2003

America.s top eaters have spoken and the message is clear . their pasta consumption has not decreased despite the low carbohydrate diet phenomenon. Th...

10-06-2003

The world's most determined competitive eaters converged in Reno, NV, on October 4th, to compete in the 2nd Annual Stagg Chili Eating Contest. The co...

10-03-2003

Corinth, MS - In front of hundreds of BBQ enthusiasts at the Hog Wild Festival in Corinth, Mississippi, Sonya .The Black Widow. Thomas continued her m...

09-16-2003

National hot dog and chicken wing champion Cookie Jarvis, world hash-eating champion Eric Booker and world shrimp-eating champion Hungry Charles Hardy...

09-15-2003

The International Federation of Competitive Eating has announced a new polling series, .The American Eaters Poll,. that will explore eating habits and...

09-12-2003

Marking his fifth major win in five contests, Cookie Jarvis topped Eric Booker, Dale Boone and a host of other top eaters to win the 2003 Cannoli-Eati...

09-02-2003

Eating Contest Ranks Among America's Greatest

Despite a threat from surging newcomer Sonya Thomas, the 106-pound beauty who has struck awe into vet...

08-07-2003

The Midwest's most determined eaters will gather at Seymour's 15th Annual Burger Fest on August 9, 2003 to vie for the title of 'Hardee's World Thickb...

08-01-2003

Eating contest enthusiasts rejoice! America's top-ranked competitive eaters - including national hot dog champion Cookie Jarvis and world egg-eating c...

07-16-2003

Dominates Rib-Eating Championship at Chinook Winds Casino

Cookie Jarvis, who recently ate 30 ½ hot dogs on July Fourth to finish second to Japanes...

07-04-2003

History was made at the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney Island on July 4, 2003, as Takeru Kobayashi of Japan won for the third time in a...

07-01-2003

ST. JOHNS, ANTIGUA (July 1, 2002) - The ultimate contest pitting man against frankfurter, Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition has been a staple...

06-20-2003

Former NFL star William 'The Refrigerator' Perry served notice to the sport of competitive eating on Saturday, winning a qualifying contest for the Na...

05-24-2003

Nathan's Famous has launched the 2003 competitive hot dog eating circuit, a series of nationwide qualifying events to locate gustatory athletes with t...

05-01-2003

While the Nathan's Famous hot dog circuit is fast approaching, May is full of many exciting contests including Sweet Corn, Crawfish and three Frank's ...

04-12-2003

Nearly two thousand eating fans gathered in front of the Acme Stage during French Quarter Festival in New Orleans to watch Bayou Boyd Bulot of Hammond...

01-22-2003

Adds to donut, hash, burrito titles with quality win to establish himself as the nation's top Gurgitator

If there were any questions about Eric B...

11-26-2002

The International Federation of Competitive Eating is now preparing for the Thanksgiving Meal contest, which will feature the winners of all 2002 Harv...

10-08-2002

The spotlight at the Atlantic Oceana in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, seemed to shine most brightly on neighborhood hero and Ukrainian native Oleg Zhornit...

10-04-2002

Charles Hardy quieted whispers that he had entered the waning years of his career with a dramatic performance in the Hibernation Cup in Alaska in Augu...

09-01-2002

Crowd of 5000 thrilled at Buffalo festival finale

Oleg Zhornitskiy brought a crowd of more than five thousand to its feet on Sunday as he downed ...

08-31-2002

The International Federation of Competitive Eating is sanctioning a number of events that comprise the 2002 Harvest Series. These events all lead to t...

07-04-2002

Never before in the history of sport has there been such a phenomenal win.

On July 4, 2001, 131-pound Takeru Kobayashi of Nagano, Japan, ate 50 Nat...

07-04-2002

Three thousand fans of competitive eating contended with media outlets from around the world to watch Takeru Kobayashi set a new world record by downi...

05-07-2002

Japanese gurgitator Takeru Kobayashi, who last year doubled the world record in hot dog eating by downing an astounding 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 min...

04-13-2002

Crazy Legs Conti, a rookie competing in his first IFOCE contest, ate 14 dozen Louisiana oysters in ten minutes to win the World Oyster Eating Champion...

02-21-2002

Perhaps no event has ever tested the skills of the world's greatest eaters in such a broad variety of disciplines as The Glutton Bowl, a two-hour IFOC...

02-12-2002

Eric Badlands Booker won the BurritoVille Burrito Eating Contest, an IFOCE Invitational that took place at BurritoVille in Lower Manhattan on Saturday...

11-07-2001

Donald "Moses" Lerman, who has set consumption records in the matzo ball, ice cream and steak eating disciplines, recently traveled from New York to D...

11-07-2001

Donald "Moses" Lerman, who has set consumption records in the matzo ball, ice cream and steak eating disciplines, recently traveled from New York to D...