Professional eating

[Krimzon]

professional eating takes alot of skill cultivated by many hours of hard work just like with all those other sportsmen you deem worthy of praise. I respect it.

 

[LEWIS540]

How is this even a thing?

i fell into the “youtube tornado” the other day and came across a video of some guy named Randy Santel (or something). He travels around and stuffes himself like a pig.

And people come to see him?
How is this a thing, when there are people in this world that are hungry?

LOL at equating a few guys stuffing their faces now and again to world hunger.

It's like saying how can some people justify having a swimming pool when there are droughts in Africa.

 

[Squintz]

 

[mb23100]

This seems like some David Blaine trickery or something. How is this possible.

 

[Bia]

Joey is the king now, I don't think no one will surpass him until his retirement

This girl is quite good too, not a speed but a volume eater. Had seen in different video she ate so much, her stomach swells like 9 months pregnant

 

[dc007]

That Kobayashi guy was looking at spaces in my neighborhood to open a hot dog place but we already have Crif Dogs so I wasn't sure why he wanted to be so close to it but apparently it was going to be an "upscale" hotdog place...

 

[Randlewand]

Kobayashi was the most well known until Joey Chestnut took over.

There is actually a really interesting 30 for 30 that ESPN did on competitive eating. How Kobayashi was a fan favorite until Joey Chestnut came along. The founder and spokesmen of the competitive eating league, George Shea (is a fricking scumbag btw), turned it into USA vs "foreigners" b/c the hot dog eating championship is on the 4th of July. When Joey won he called it like the greatest accomplishment in American sports or some shit like that.

So the crowd turned on Kobayashi calling him "Shanghai boy" and "Kamikazi" and Shea pushed it further saying the dark days were behind us and America has its confidence back? Kobayashi took it very personally and after a year or 2 never came back. They've even taken his picture off their "hall of fame" type wall. Anyway, it's pretty interesting but Kobayashi definitely got screwed after being the man to take competitive eating to the "mainstream" in a sense.

The guy that runs the contest was embarrassed for Americans because obesity was the last thing we were good at.

 

[Boomb]

It's like saying how can some people justify having a swimming pool when there are droughts in Africa.

I don't think you can compare the two.

You can live without having a swimming pool but can't without food.

 

[LEWIS540]

I don't think you can compare the two.

You can live without having a swimming pool but can't without food.

lol, what?

No idea what side you're arguing now, but you certainly can survive without eating 15,000 calories at one sitting, yes.


Point is competitive eating has 0% influence on world hunger as you suggested.

 

[Bubzeh]

I appreciate food too much to just wolf it down in 10 seconds.

Not my kinda thing.

 

[kimocomplex]

its a strange thing, im familiar with Koboyashi and Chestnut for winning, but i dont really watch it much

 

[MusterX]

The Nathan's hot dog challenge cracked me up. So many skinny as a rake Asian people seem to win these things.

Your about 10 years behind the times. Joey Chestnut banished any hopes of Asia bringing home a Nathan's title.

 

[MusterX]

There is a youtube guy who eats for his viewers - I've only seen other youtubers talk about him and short clips of him. Just those short clips are gross and I can't understand how there is a crowed and market for this (apparently he's shit himself while stuffing is face and he has this really annoying personality). I do believe he uses the name Nick Avacado (something like that). I cannot bring myself to watch one of his actual videos.

There's tons of them actually. Two for example would be Matt Stonie and L.A. Beast.

Here's Matt Stonie eating 10 Whopper's in 7 minutes.

 

[M4rk]

 

[faustian]

There's that Japanese dude who gorges on these and still has rock solid abs.

surprised I don't see more fighters transition to this sport... given the whole hard dieting for weight classes ,and now have a legit excuse to be a glutton while being "an athlete"

Professional eaters are higher level athletes than D-level MMAists

 

[j123]

Professional eaters are higher level athletes than D-level MMAists

Prob make more too, I remember my teammates early on in their pro career staring at $600 : $800, and that was considered lucky

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

There's tons of them actually. Two for example would be Matt Stonie and L.A. Beast.

Here's Matt Stonie eating 10 Whopper's in 7 minutes.

 

[ziggs]

i was the same way...random youtube vid popped up and i ended learning about the world of pro eating...

Randys vids are great.ive only seen him fail twice.i think he took time off to kose weight or something...but he was goin on eating challenge tours and you slowly watched him start to gain weight.

Theres a pretty hot tiny petite british chick that can put down probably 15lbs in a sitting i bet.pretty amazing....but how the fuck does she stay that small?

They all do collab vids and shit too haha.they all try to beat eachother in a friendly way

 

[lweiberg]

He now has 13 championship belts and is the undisputed greatest athlete of all time.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

69 hot dogs in 12 minutes.....

...nice