Called the most dominating athlete in sports history by ESPN, Takeru Kobayashi is a giant in the sport of eating. How could they say this? It all comes down to relative dominance of his sport. Kobayashi crushes his competition, with margins of victory that shatter anything Babe Ruth,
Lance Armstrong, Wayne Gretzky and
Michael Jordan ever held over their peers.
Japanese food fighter Takeru Kobayashi, famed for his success at the annual Coney Island hot dog-eating contest — step aside. The new bottomless pit just slammed down dozens of small red "wanko" bowls of "soba" buckwheat noodles. After wolfing down 399 bowls of the traditional noodles in 10 minutes Sunday, Hatsuyo Sugawara, 45, from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, beat other contenders in the annual ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:02:28 GMTAmericas most famous competitive eater and a former champion who retired to Henderson will be among the competitors at Las Vegas first Meatball-Eating Championship at the Rio Hotel and Casino.
Publ.Date : Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:24 GMTI used to be very serious about competitive eating, at least as serious as one can be about such a tongue-in-cheek "sport." Every July 4, more than fireworks I looked forward to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest so I could watch the great masticators of our time such as Joey Chestnutt and Takeru Kobayashi tear through 50+ hot dogs in 12 minutes.
Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:39:12 GMT
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In a four year period, Kobayashi won the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest by an average of 18.3 hot dogs, with his personal best being 53 and a half hot dogs. No one has ever come close.
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