Matt Stonie

Matthew Kai Stonie (born May 24, 1992) is an American competitive eater and YouTuber. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut among others. Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads videos of his eating challenges. As of 2026, he has 16.4 million subscribers.

Early life Stonie was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in San Jose. He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry. In 2013, he was listed as weighing at a height of .

Career Stonie's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California, in 2011. At the time, he was the youngest member of the Major League Eating organization, being 18 years old. His first win came in 2010 in a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

Stonie has not competed in Major League Eating since 2019 due to a contract dispute, but has continued an independent eating challenge career on YouTube.

As of January 2024, Stonie has amassed over 16.3 million subscribers and 3.62 billion video views on his YouTube channel, with his most viewed video, Most Korean Fire Noodles Ever Eaten (x15 Packs), having been viewed over 145 million times.

In August 2022, Stonie partnered with TGI Fridays to release his own franchise of fast casual restaurants, Stonie Bowls. The franchise focuses on large portion rice and poke bowls. Stonie would release the debut announcement of the franchise as a challenge video that urges viewers to beat his time in eating one of the 5 pound ultimate Stonie bowls.

In September 2024, Stonie participated in the opening undercard match of the livestreamed Netflix event Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef. He won a three-minute chicken wing eating contest 53-36 against three Olympians whose scores were added up: water polo player Max Irving and swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy.

Personal life Stonie got engaged to Mei in January 2023. They got married in February 2025.

World records held According to Major League Eating, Stonie holds several world records in eating.

Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest results Year Hot Dogs Placing 2011 34 T-5th Place 2012 46 4th Place 2013 51 2nd Place 2014 56 2nd Place 2015 62 1st Place 2016 53 2nd Place 2017 48 3rd Place 2018 40 5th Place 2019 46 4th Place