A New Jersey man won the Wing Bowl top prize and set a new record in the Philadelphia competitive eating competition on Friday, according to media reports. He downed 255 buffalo wings in 30 minutes. Lets hope the recipe was good.
Jonathan “Super Squibb” Squibb, 25, ate 255 buffalo and other chicken wings in 30 minutes, Reuters reported. This was his third straight bowl victory.
Squibb, who is 6'4 and 215 pounds, was dressed in a Superman costume and beat out five-time champion Bill “El Wingador” Simmons, to pick up the $20,000 prize. He also got a pickup truck and a crown decorated with plastic chicken wings.
He told Reuters that the money will go toward paying off his student loans.
“He’s focused and he attacks those wings,” the announcer on CBS Sports Radio 610 WIP said in describing Squibb. “He’s an amazing competitor.”
The Wing Bowl was created in 1993 and has humble beginnings. The first contest was held in a hotel with only two competitors. Now, a multitude of competitive eaters show up for the event, which nearly pulled in 20,000 people to the arena.
Squibb said he feels “on top of the world” after winning the competition, according to CBS Sports Radio. “This was awesome. I was competing against my hero, and it’s why I worked at this a little harder and went at it a little stronger.”
Jonathan “Super Squibb” Squibb, 25, ate 255 buffalo and other chicken wings in 30 minutes, Reuters reported. This was his third straight bowl victory.
Squibb, who is 6'4 and 215 pounds, was dressed in a Superman costume and beat out five-time champion Bill “El Wingador” Simmons, to pick up the $20,000 prize. He also got a pickup truck and a crown decorated with plastic chicken wings.
He told Reuters that the money will go toward paying off his student loans.
“He’s focused and he attacks those wings,” the announcer on CBS Sports Radio 610 WIP said in describing Squibb. “He’s an amazing competitor.”
The Wing Bowl was created in 1993 and has humble beginnings. The first contest was held in a hotel with only two competitors. Now, a multitude of competitive eaters show up for the event, which nearly pulled in 20,000 people to the arena.
Squibb said he feels “on top of the world” after winning the competition, according to CBS Sports Radio. “This was awesome. I was competing against my hero, and it’s why I worked at this a little harder and went at it a little stronger.”
