Black Widow Eats 183 Chicken Wings In NY Contest

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Black Widow of eating contests has scarfed down 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes to break her own world record set last year in Buffalo, N.Y.

Sonya Thomas took home first place Sunday at the tenth annual National Buffalo Wings Festival. She beat eating marvel Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, who came in second with 174 wings.

The two won titles at the July Fourth hot dog eating contest on Coney Island.

The 100-pound Thomas of Alexandria, Va., is the reigning wing-eating champion. She downed 181 wings to win the 2010 contest. Chestnut of San Jose, Calif., settled for second with 169 wings.

The winner gets $1,500. The runner-up wins $750, and third place gets $300.

Thomas is called the Black Widow becomes she often beats male competitors in eating contests.

Comments

[somnus00]

08:13 PM on 09/07/2011

I don't know if it's interesting or sad that gluttony is celebrated in this country while millions on this planet go without food.

[Zimmers]

12:53 PM on 09/06/2011

Nice win. It always feels good to beat a record you previously had set. About 10 years ago I got to meet the Black Widow and she was surprisingly very nice. At the time I had been doing competitive eating for almost two years and she gave me some very helpful tips. Congrats on the win.

[Beth Grierson]

11:43 AM on 09/06/2011

zoinks, my stomach hurts just READING about it.

[cuoi]

09:27 AM on 09/06/2011

Next logical step is to become the fattest hog on the planet...

[russelltrust]

07:58 PM on 09/05/2011

"Thomas is called the Black Widow becomes she often beats male competitors in eating contests".

Does the HuffPost have an editor? Who reads these before they go out?
"…becomes she often…"

Nice grammar.

[maltedmilk22]

09:08 PM on 09/05/2011

it must be hard for you to drop stool since your so clinched up, seriously, if you understood what they were saying, then stop complaining......nobody cares, you obviously keep your nose down when it rains, or else you would have drowned already..or is it drown, geeez....which i was smart like you....jackass

[cuoi]

09:25 AM on 09/06/2011

"Drop stool"...funny, funny. Gotta use that one. Drop trou (trouser) to drop stool...

[andrc657]

05:12 PM on 09/05/2011

Truly disgusting, why do we publicize this behavior and encourage people to participate in such repulsive and sick acts?

[maltedmilk22]

09:10 PM on 09/05/2011

maybe theyre not repuslive and sick to them because theyre different people, meaning they have different opinions.....last i checked having different opinions isnt wrong, so quit complaining

[mikeg0477]

02:17 PM on 09/06/2011

So "having different opinions isnt wrong", but if you state an opinion you should "quit complaining".
Yeah, that makes sense.

[YakittyGirl]

03:30 PM on 09/05/2011

I can't help wondering if she put her finger down her throat after the competitio­n. If that's not how she maintains her weight, she needs to write a book on how it's done.

[cuoi]

09:26 AM on 09/06/2011

Or maybe she is an anatomical freak...missing stomach and intestine...mouth to anus.

[hhfeel]

03:19 PM on 09/05/2011

Absolutely disgraceful! The ignorance is mind boggling - people around the world are dying of hunger, and this is what people think is great entertainment. Despicable!

[Joshua Numa]

02:30 PM on 09/05/2011

So we cant let homeless people do this competition because they cant afford to train on a weekly basis. poor somalia, long live America

[Im Awesome again]

11:59 AM on 09/05/2011

Next up for the Black Widow.....a monster dump.

[cuoi]

09:26 AM on 09/06/2011

Probably a 3 hour one at that...

[Susan Schmidt Baker]

08:59 AM on 09/05/2011

She eats that many wings and only weighs 100 pounds. Wish I had her metabolism!

[triplettam]

04:18 AM on 09/05/2011

What can you say? If you got it, you got it.