Matt Stonie

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Matt Stonie
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Matt Stonie after winning the 2014 Poutine Eating World Championship in Toronto
Born (1992-05-24) May 24, 1992 (age 31)

Matt "Megatoad" Stonie (born May 24, 1992) is an American competitive eater and is the number one ranked competitive eater in Major League Eating.[1] Matt won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut.[1]

Biography

Matt was born on May 24, 1992 in San Jose, CA. He attended Evergreen Valley High School. Matt's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California in 2011.[2] He is currently the youngest member of the Major League Eating organization. His first win came in 2010 in a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. His nickname, "Megatoad", is from the character Toad from the video game Super Mario Bros.[3] He has gained fame from his YouTube channel, where he uploads many eating challenges.

YouTube

Stonie uploaded his first YouTube video on August 27, 2012 (uploaded before that on a previous channel ) in which he drinks a gallon of Gatorade in 37 seconds. His most popular videos have been noticed by well known celebrities such as Bam Margera, Waka Flocka Flame, and Cheech & Chong, who have featured the videos on their websites. As of May 2016, he has over 1,623,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, with that number growing rapidly every day. On September 24, 2015 Stonie uploaded a video in which he consumes 25 McDonald's Big Mac sandwiches in 22 Minutes, which is an unofficial world record among the YouTube community.

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

On July 4, 2015, Stonie defeated 8-time defending Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut by eating 62 hot dogs to Chestnut's 60.[4]

World records held

2013

  • Birthday Cake: 5.5 lb / 4 minutes, 59 seconds (May 26, 2013)
  • Frozen Yogurt: 10.5 lb Yogurtland Frozen Yogurt/Phantom Gourmet Food Festival / 6 Minutes (September 29, 2013)
  • Kookamonger Burger: 7.5 lb burger from the Kooky Canuck in Memphis, Tennessee / 4 minutes, 43 seconds (October 26, 2013)

2014

2015

Personal

Stonie was born May 24, 1992 in San Jose, California. Stonie's ethnicity is half Japanese and half Eastern European, more precisely, Czechoslovakian and Lithuanian. Stonie has a younger brother. He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School, attends Mission College in Santa Clara, California majoring in nutrition and plans to become a dietitian. He weighs 120 pounds (54 kg) and is 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall.[3]

See also

References

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