Matt Stonie
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Matthew Kai Stonie May 24, 1992 San Francisco, California, United States |
Matthew "Megatoad" Kai Stonie (born May 24, 1992) is an American competitive eater and is the number two ranked competitive eater in Major League Eating. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut, but lost the title in 2016.
Stonie was born on May 24, 1992, in San Francisco, California. He is half Japanese and half European, more precisely Czechoslovakian and Lithuanian. He attended Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, California. Matt's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in in 2011. 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. He has gained fame from his YouTube channel, where he uploads many eating challenges.
Stonie uploaded his first YouTube video on August 27, 2012, 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 2017, he has over 2,570,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. 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.
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