New Wing Bowl Record - Kobayshi eats 337 Wings in 30 minute

[LynneSin]

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Kobayashi wins Wing Bowl with record-breaking 337 wings

PHILADELPHIA — They call Takeru Kobayashi “the Babe Ruth of competitive eating.”

This morning, Philadelphia saw why.


In his first Wing Bowl, the diminutive Japanese eater dethroned and dominated three-time defending champ Jon “Super” Squibb of Winslow, N.J., devouring a record 337 wings in 30 minutes to win the $20,000 grand prize.


“He’s a great athlete,” Squibb says of Kobayashi. “Three hundred wings by the second round is (amazing). Today he was better than me, today he beat me. But now I know what I have to work to next year.


“It’s a lot of wings but if he can do it, why can’t I?”


Squibb, 26, beat his previous mark and record of 255 wings by feasting on 271 wings for second overall. Though defeated, Squibb was the top local eater and thus able to drive away in a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro.

[Old and In the Way]

1. I dunno...is this really a great athlete...or someone who has a bottomless stomach?

I think it's only a matter of time before we see one of these 'athletes' keel over from a major heart attack while stuffing the 256th hot dog down the gullet.

[hifiguy]

4. I doubt that it will be Kobayashi.

The guy is as skinny as a rail.

[LynneSin]

5. You have to see these people, they aren't a bunch of obese slobs

I know that 'the Black Widow' - the first woman to win Wing Bowl was like 5'3 and only about 100lbs.

They train just as hard as other atheletes and most of them are in much better health than your average american.

[TheCruces]

7. They're not athletes...they're gluttons

That being said, I watched an enchilada eating competition this past fall (a disturbing sight) and the winner put away 5lbs of enchilada in 10 minutes...he was skinny. The 2nd place was like 4-something lbs and some petite chick did that.

[flying rabbit]

2. oh shit! nt

[HopeHoops]

3. Why are there way more chicken wings than there are chickens?

[Ikonoklast]

6. Genetic engineering, using radioactive isotopes.

Soon there will be chickens that are nothing but wing.

[HopeHoops]

8. "There must be fifty-seven tits up there!"

- Steve Martin standup routine from 30 or so years ago, referencing his visit to a Las Vegas show dance.