World Hot Dog-Eating Champion Crippled by Jaw Injury

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TOKYO —  A Japanese man who set a world record by wolfing down dozens of hot dogs within minutes has suffered a severe jaw injury due to his rigorous training, making his next title uncertain.

Takeru "Tsunami'' Kobayashi said he can only open his mouth to make a gap the size of a fingertip after being diagnosed with jaw arthritis.

In an entry on his blog entitled "Occupational hazard,'' Kobayashi said: "My jaw refused to fight any more.''

The injury occurred only a week after the slender 29-year-old started training to win his seventh straight title at the annual July 4 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating event at New York's Coney Island.

"I feel ashamed that I couldn't notice the alarm bells set off by my own body,'' he said.

"But with the goal to win another title with a new record, I couldn't stop my training so close to the competition.

"I was continuing my training and bearing with the pain but finally I destroyed my jaw.''

Kobayashi, who has become a niche celebrity in Japan and the United States, had already halted his competitive eating activities for several months due to mourning after his mother's death earlier this year.

But he said he still wanted to go to the competition in New York.

"I want to be the pride of my mother,'' he said in the blog entry posted on Sunday.

Last year, Kobayashi put down a world-record 53 and three-quarters hot dogs in just 12 minutes.

In addition to the Nathan's Famous titles, he holds world records for scoffing cows' brains and rice balls.

In 2004, he founded the United Food Fighters Organization in hopes of making people take competitive eating seriously as a sport.

Despite Japanese people's reputation as moderate eaters, Kobayashi helped to turn competitive eating into a television sensation with "food fighters'' downing everything from sushi to cakes.

Japanese television, however, began to shy away from such contests after a 14-year-old junior high school student choked to death in 2002 trying to imitate competitive eating during school lunch.

[tfalce]

It was just on ESPN! lol

[Figo]

Japanese television, however, began to shy away from such contests after a 14-year-old junior high school student choked to death in 2002 trying to imitate competitive eating during school lunch.

Leave it to the pros, dont try this at home.

[Bluto]

maybe he can get some training tips from cutler, his jaw is the jaw of a champion

[~flower~]

maybe he can get some training tips from cutler, his jaw is the jaw of a champion

  fattie fattie    

[BigCypriate]

That's terrible news!!!!!!!

This means that by default, Getbig's own Bluto is now the world record holder for sausage munching with his famous "day of the black snake" event at Lake Malawi!!!!!

3 Cheers for Bluto!!!!!!!!!!

[dizzleman06]

not it being a hot dog eater...no offense BAY...haha

[TooPowerful4u]

Sounds like a similar injury Squad Father sustained.  Both have jaw injuries from long round objects being inserted into their mouths over and over again

[onlyme]

I would enter an all you can eat Key Lime Pie contest any day.  I swear I love that shit.

[BroadStreetBruiser]

He's a pussy. Squadfather can eat 40 dicks in 2 mins and say stuff like "hey champ got any sauce to wash down this tasty dick with?" hahahahaha

[JasonH]

It was just on ESPN! lol

Well by that it's probably had more coverage than bodybuilding.

[onlyme]

Well by that it's probably had more coverage than bodybuilding.

Guaranteed.  You know in Dallas they have a Hot Dog eating contest at the stadium and it brought more than 50,000 people.  That one show had more of an audience than every IFBB show put together in a year.

[hazbin]

would that make him eligable for workers compensation??

[JediKnight]

ifoce.com

[Wombat]

wasn't their some american guy who just ate 60 hotdogs in a different contest this year...Maybe he is retiring on top knowing he can't beat this new guy...

[youandme]

He's a pussy. Squadfather can eat 40 dicks in 2 mins and say stuff like "hey champ got any sauce to wash down this tasty dick with?" hahahahaha

haha that was pretty entertaining

[dzulboy]

i see derrick anthony's career ending the same way  \

[novalifter]

wasn't their some american guy who just ate 60 hotdogs in a different contest this year...Maybe he is retiring on top knowing he can't beat this new guy...

joey chestnut. he's the real deal:


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277414,00.html


California Man Shatters World Record for Hot Dog Eating
Saturday, June 02, 2007

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 AP


June 2: Joe Chestnut eats 59 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
PHOENIX —  A California man smashed the world record for hot dog eating at a contest Saturday, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes.

Joe Chestnut, 22, of San Jose, shattered the record held by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan by downing 59 1/2 "HBDs" — hot dogs and buns — during the Southwest Regional Hot Dog Eating Championship at the Arizona Mills Mall in suburban Tempe.

Kobayashi's old record of 53 3/4 was set last year at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, held at Coney Island in New York, said George Costos, who helps runs the regional contests for Nathan's.

Chestnut placed second in last year's world championships, consuming 52 hot dogs.

"He's unbelievable — he just keeps on going," said Ryan Nerz, who works for Major League Eating, which he describes as "a world governing board for all stomach-centric sports."

"These guys' numbers have just been going up at a tremendous clip," Nerz said. "I always thought there was a limit — a limit to the human stomach and a limit to human willpower — but I guess not."


Chestnut won a free trip to New York, a year's supply of hot dogs and a $250 gift card to the mall.




$250 and MORE fucking hot dogs??? ridiculous. why not just go ahead and give the guy a defribillator and money for his quadruple bypass he'll be needing in a few years?

[chosen09]

I can eat more ice cream and cheese sticks then him.....when I am high that is