Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi Injured!

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Posted by Q5echo on Jun-27-2007 04:59:

Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi Injured!

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Breaking News

Hot dog eating champ bit off more than he could chew

Seven-time winner of Coney Island competition sidelined with jaw injury

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday, June 26th 2007, 3:45 PM

TOKYO - Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi is being treated for an arthritic jaw that could douse his hopes for taking a seventh straight title at the annual Independence Day hot dog eating competition on Coney Island.

Last year, the 165-pound champion won his sixth straight Yellow Mustard Belt at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest by devouring a then-world record 53 3/4 frankfurters in 12 minutes.

A California man broke the record earlier this month by chomping down more than 59 franks in 12 minutes.

But earlier this week, Kobayashi, 29, said on his Web site blog that his "jaw has abandoned the frontline" during his training for this year's July 4 event.

"Already I can't open my jaws more than just a little bit," he wrote. "There's no pain only if I open my mouth about enough for one finger. More than that is painful and I can't open it."

A specialist diagnosed him with arthritis of the jaw, he wrote.

"To tell the truth, I'm desperate about healing completely before the July 4 contest," he said, adding that he had begun receiving treatment at a hospital and from a chiropractor.

On Tuesday, his United Food Fighters Organization said on its Web site that Kobayashi has found a doctor he can trust and was "creating an environment in which he can dedicate himself to healing."

"The contest is coming up soon, and we'd happy if everyone kept him in their thoughts," the group wrote.

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this sucks man. i really hope he gets better in time.

Posted by King Ecnal on Jun-27-2007 05:10:

lol... Joey Chestnut FTW!

Posted by Q5echo on Jun-27-2007 05:28:

yeah looks like the Mustard Belt is coming back to America, YES!!!!!!!

did you know Joey Chestnut ate 8.6 lbs. of fried Aparagus once?

i can't even look at asparagus.

EDIT> just found out that Kobayashi ate 17lbs. of cow brains in 15 minutes, so...yeah.

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jun-27-2007 07:09:

kobayashi is a pussy. he doesn't want to lose in an eating contest to a big white guy.

Posted by manu.el on Jun-27-2007 13:25:

just like paris, he deserves no t.v time!

Posted by King Ecnal on Jun-27-2007 16:37:

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Originally posted by Q5echo

EDIT> just found out that Kobayashi ate 17lbs. of cow brains in 15 minutes, so...yeah.

wow... that motherfuckah will eat anything... damn... i can't even fathom how much cow brains that is.... thats disturbing....

Posted by denys envy on Jun-28-2007 20:07:

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Originally posted by Q5echo
cow brains

fried or pickled?

Posted by Q5echo on Jun-29-2007 03:47:

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Originally posted by Aristronica
fried or pickled?

does it matter? i mean, seriously

Posted by King Ecnal on Jun-29-2007 14:14:

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Originally posted by Q5echo
does it matter? i mean, seriously

I know... he'd probably eat his own ___________ ! (use your imagination and insert here)

Posted by Saint John on Jun-29-2007 15:28:

its always fun to watch these guy kill themselves on tv by eating so much.

Posted by mattW on Jun-29-2007 22:39:

assclowns get a life &^*%eaters

Posted by jzmhed1 on Jul-20-2007 07:57:

so do they force themselves to throw up after these competitions or what? imagine the massive shits they would take otherwise lol.