Matt Stonie

Matthew Kai Stonie (born 1992 (age 20)) is an American competitive eater and YouTuber. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut. Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads video footage of his eating challenges.

Early life
Stonie was born in San Francisco, California, and raised in San Jose. He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry. He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose. In 2013, he was listed as weighing 134 lb at a height of 5 ft. His nickname, "Megatoad," is from the character Toad from the Super Mario franchise. Stonie's younger brother Morgan is oftentimes involved with the production of his challenges uploaded to his YouTube channel.

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.

On July 4, 2015, Stonie defeated eight-time defending Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut by eating 62 hot dogs to Chestnut's 60.

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 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.

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