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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Joey Chestnut became the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Champion on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after eating 50 meatballs in 10 minutes of Major League Eating (MLE) sanctioned competition. The 6.25 pounds of meatballs in 10 minutes set a new world record in the meatball discipline. The contest featured...
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The IFOCE facebook reports that Joey Chestnut will appear with “Extreme Amy” of Fox 5 Vegas today to promote the Martorano’s Meatballs contest. Ron Koch attempted a burger challenge on an “Extreme Amy” segment earlier this week.
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A podcast of Joey Chestnut’s appearance with two Hooters Girls on the Lamont and Tonelli show Thursday is availble (Joey segment begins around the 6 minute mark). Some pictures of Joey in the studio are available on the program’s twitpic page.
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The Daily Sound reports that Joey Chestnut’s appearance at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse on Saturday has been cancelled due to lack of IFOCE authorization.
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Joey Chestnut has started a twitter page at http://twitter.com/joeyjaws
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yumsugar (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Takeru Kobayashi continues to beef up his competitive eating record. Yesterday, the Japanese speed-eating demon defeated two-year reigning champion Joey Chestnut in the Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship in Chattanooga, TN. Before a live televised audience and a crowd of 10,000, Kobayashi crushed the competition by eating 93 Krystal hamburgers in eight minutes over...
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
TheDailySound: Joey Chestnut will do a bratwurst eating exhibition at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse on October 3. In 2006, Joey Chestnut ate 31 sausages at the Santa Barbara Brewhouse.
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
(via IFOCE facebook) Rich LeFevre appeared on KTNV to promote the Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship. The facebook lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas, Badlands Booker, Playboy model Angelica Bridges and the poker star Phil Hellmuth as other expected competitors in addition to LeFevre. A list of the top IFOCE meatball eating performances in [...]
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
NWEMail.com reports that Ladbroke’s is already taking bets on the 2010 Nathan’s finals: Joey Chestnut is a 1/2 favorite and Kobayashi is listed at 7/4 to regain the title.
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roma-wp.net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... him, I hope the kid parlays this into a Nathan’s endorsement and celebrates by chowing down with Joey Chestnut.More soothing to Sanchez than his fourth-quarter snack was the way his Jets teammates stepped up to make life easier for their embattled rookie in his return to the Golden State. The kid needed it. Having had the predictable superlatives thrown his way following New York’s...
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
VegasNews has a press release about next month’s Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship which reports that Rich LeFevre will return to competition. Joey Chestnut, Bob Shoudt and Ben Monson are other expected entrants.
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
• Takeru Kobayashi may have failed to oust champ Joey Chestnut during this summer’s hot-dog-eating contest, but he took back the hamburger title at yesterday’s Krystal Square Off. In eight minutes, he downed 93 Krystals to Chestnut’s 81. • Last weekend’s Le Fooding event included some hits and misses. [ Boozy NYC • At a food security summit...
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Here all the IFOCE winning streaks of 5 contests or longer in the eatfeats database. “Humble” Bob Shoudt has an active 4 contest winning streak. 17 2001 Jul 4 – 2006 Oct 28 Takeru Kobayashi (does not include Glutton Bowl contests) 9 2006 Aug 12 – Sep 23 Joey Chestnut 7 [...]
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EatFeats (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
A video of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on WDEF this afternoon is available. Joey predicts the winning total will be between 85 and 90. Kobayashi has also posted a blog entry from Chattanooga.
