Who is Matt ”Megatoad” Stonie, who beat fellow San Jose resident Joey ”Jaws” Chestnut in the annual Nathan”s Famous hot dog eating contest at New York”s Coney Island on Saturday July 4, 2015?
— Stonie is 23.
— He attended Mission College in Santa Clara, studying nutrition.
— He beat Chestnut by eating 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.
— Stonie told ESPN “I trained hard for this. This is actually amazing.”
— Stonie is a San Jose native.
— He went to Evergreen Valley High School.
— He decided to get into competitive eating in 2010 after winning a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, where his family has vacationed in the summer.
— As a Major League Eating competitor, he”s gobbled down everything from shrimp won tons to buffalo chicken wings at competitions around the world.
— His parents, Cathy and Dorian, support their son”s ambitions and say he watches what he eats.
— What keeps him going? “I”m a really competitive person, and I wanted to compete with the best people.”
