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Matt Stonie
American competitive eater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Matthew Kai Stonie (born 1991 or 1992)[2][3][4] is an American competitive eater and YouTuber. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut among others.[5] Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads video footage of his eating challenges.[4]
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Early life
Stonie was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in San Jose.[6][7] He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry.[4][6] He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose.[8] In 2013, he was listed as weighing 134 pounds (61 kilograms) at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters).[4] His nickname, "Megatoad," is from the character Toad from the Super Mario franchise.[4] Stonie's younger brother Morgan was oftentimes involved with the production of the challenges uploaded to his YouTube channel early in his career.[9]
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Career
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Stonie's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California, in 2011.[10] At the time, he was the youngest member of the Major League Eating organization, being 18 years old.[11] His first win came in 2010 in a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.[4]
On July 4, 2015, Stonie defeated eight-time defending Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut by eating 62 hot dogs to Chestnut's 60.[12]
Stonie has not competed in Major League Eating since 2019 due to a contract dispute, but has continued an independent eating challenge career on YouTube.[13]
As of January 2024, Stonie has amassed over 16.3 million subscribers and 3.62 billion video views on his YouTube channel, with his most viewed video having been viewed over 145 million times.[14]
In August 2022, Stonie partnered with TGI Fridays to release his own franchise of fast casual restaurants, Stonie Bowls.[15] The franchise focuses on large portion rice and poke bowls. Stonie would release the debut announcement of the franchise as a challenge video that urges viewers to beat his time in eating one of the 5 pound ultimate Stonie bowls.[16]
In September 2024, Stonie participated in the opening undercard match of the livestreamed Netflix event Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef. He won a three-minute chicken wing eating contest 53-36 against three Olympians whose scores were added up: water polo player Max Irving and swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy.[17]
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Personal life
Matt Stonie got engaged to Mei in January of 2023.[18] They got married in February of 2025.[19]
World records held
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According to Major League Eating, Stonie holds several world records in eating.[20][21][22]
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Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest results
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