Surely, a mammoth crowd would roll up to watch a showdown between the two behemoths of hot-dog consumption?

Ex-champion Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi has been arrested at this year's hot dog speed-eating championships in New York after he jumped a barrier and tried to get on the stage,to chants of "Let him eat!" after the competition, from which he is barred.

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut won the contest for the fourth year running, gaining the coveted mustard yellow belt and a $20,000 first prize, but his total of 58 was well below The Tsunami's record of 68. Jaws retorted "if he was a man he'd be up on stage".

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10504627.stmFull report here[/url. I would even pay extra on the gate to see these two guys face off!

Spotted this on Sky News this morning. There are some very very strange people in this world

I was thinking, if the score was 58-68, and hot dogs at Odsal cost £3.50, that would increase the hot dog takings by £441, to say nothing of the young kids who would want to emulate their heroes.

If we could get 20 competitors to contest at Odsal with a £6.50 1/4lb cheese burger at an average eat of 30 each then the take on the burger van would be £3,900.00.

You should watch Man Vs Food on The Good Food Channell, FA. It's awesome.

...less VAT...

Solomona would hammer the two of them.

Perhaps if the rumours of Palea'aesina coming to Bradford were true, they could have the contest on a week when he's injured and he could join in? Would guarantee at least one Bulls win!

Oh I do, when I can. i'd never even heard of Ghost Chilis

Yeah I have heard of them, they look immense, I'd love to try them. I want Adam Richmans job so bad, how lucky is that guy getting to travelling around USA smashing down all that amazing grub. Lucky dude.

If you're a bit of a chili freak, FA then you must try Dillita Habenero Sauce. A mazing stuff.

How does that compare to 'Dave's insanity sauce'? I've got a bottle of 'Who dares burns' which is apparently childs play in comparison

At a slight tangent, saw the UFC All Access about Chuck Liddell and he drinks the sauces - hotter the better!

I'm not sure, Ive never heard of them, but it's there hottest sauce. What chilis are those two made with?

I always judge a man by how hot he can eat a curry or chili. Or the quantity of food. Only real men can do both.

I notice on his twitter page Sam Burgess reckons he could out-eat these blokes!

In the off season of course!

Wiki up Dave's gourmet for more detail but it appears to artificially manufactured from Capiscin extracts???? about 180,000 scovilles

Who Dares Burns is relatively harmless, I bought it in Sainsbury's