Stonie Bests Chestnut As Sudo Takes Ladies Trophy at Nathan’s Contest

We watched in awe yesterday as 23 year old  Matt Stonie beat his idol, world champion hot dog eating champion, and record holder Joey Chestnut. In shocking fashion Stonie gormandized 62 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in 10 minutes, to Chestnut’s 60. Since beating Takeru Kobayashi in 2007, Chestnut has won 8 straight mustard belt titles. That all came to and end yesterday in front of a stunned crowd of 40,000 assembled in front of Nathan’s Famous on Stilwell ave.

Earlier in the morning Miko Sudo took home the $10,000 for winning the ladies competition. Sudo, topped her 2014 performance of eating 34 hot dogs by dropping 38 yesterday.

After the contest Sudo stopped into Ruby’s Bar and Grill on the boardwalk. The ladies champ delighted the crowd taking refuge from the rain by placing her championship trophy behind the bar. Ms. Sudo stopped to take pictures with many of Ruby’s patrons who had just watched her victory live on ESPN2.

Sudo said that the following picture flexing with a fan was “probably the best picture that I had taken all day.”