) Booker at the 2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | ||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth name | Eric Booker | |||||||||
| Full name | Eric "Badlands" Booker | |||||||||
| Nickname(s) | BadlandsChugs, Badlands Booker | |||||||||
| Born | June 21, 1969 Jamaica, Queens, New York | |||||||||
| Occupation | Competitive eater | |||||||||
| Years active | 1997-present | |||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | |||||||||
| Weight | 400 lb (181 kg) lb[1] | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Regina Booker | |||||||||
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channel | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2012 – present | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 2.7M subscribers (February 2021) | |||||||||
| Total views | 238,616,815 views (January 2021) | |||||||||
| Catchphrase(s) | "Chugging the world, one bottle at a time. BadlandsChugs is back." "Enough talk, lets get to the chug." "Dont touch that mouse" | |||||||||
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Eric Booker (born June 21, 1969), known professionally as Badlands Booker, is an American competitive eater, rapper and YouTube personality.
Competitive eating career
Booker trains for competitions by trying to stretch his stomach and develop jaw strength. He eats large amounts of fruit and vegetables and drinks a gallon of water in a sitting in order to stretch his stomach and chews over twenty pieces of gum at a time to build jaw strength.[2] He maintains that competitive eating is a healthy sport and has lost weight since he began competing.[3] He is presently ranked 21st by the IFOCE.[4] Booker is also known for his YouTube channel, BadlandsChugs, in which he primarily performs various chugging challenges.[5] In 2019, over the span of a year, his YouTube channel amassed over 2 million subscribers.
Accomplishments
Some of Booker's accomplishments include:
- Burritos: 15 Qdoba burritos/ 8 minutes[6]
- Candy bars: Two Pounds Chocolate Candy Bars / 6 minutes[6]
- Cannoli: 16.5 cannoli in six minutes / 2004[7]
- Corned Beef Hash: 4 pounds of hash / 1 minute 58 seconds[6]
- Cheesecake (Mini): 50 Mini-Cheesecakes / 6 minutes[7]
- Doughnuts: 49 glazed doughnuts / 8 minutes[6]
- Hamentaschen: 50 Hamentaschen / 6 minutes[6]
- Matzo Ball (Ben's Deli): 21 baseball-sized (half-pound) matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds / 2003[6][8]
- Matzo Balls (Ruthie & Gussie's): 30 matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds
- Raw Onions: 8.5 ounces Maui Onions (three onions)/ Whalers Village / 1 minute/ August 8, 2004[6]
- Peas: 9.5 one-pound bowls / 12 minutes [6]
- Pumpkin pies: 4⅜ Entenmann's Pumpkin Pies / 12 Minutes/ November 22, 2004[6]
Music career
Since 2004, Booker has performed and recorded competitive eating themed hip-hop as Badlands Booker, and he frequently performs selections from his albums at competitions.[9][10][11] Besides his own nine albums, Booker has also made guest appearances on albums by Jendor and Loser's Lounge.[12] Much of the music used on his youtube channel is created by himself.
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Hungry & Focused | 2004 |
| Hungry & Focused II: The Ingestion Engine | 2005 |
| Hungry & Focused III: The Reframing | 2006 |
| Hungry & Focused IV: Fork, Knife & Mic | 2007 |
| Extended Play | 2009 |
| Surf & Stillwell | 2010 |
| Big Man Mentality | 2011 |
| Surf & Stillwell 2 | 2017 |
| Surf & Stillwell 3 | 2018 |
| Big Man Mentality 2 | 2019 |
See also
- List of competitive eaters
References
- ^ https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/14
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2010. Eating champs to chow down at Everett wingding by Brian Alexander
- ^ http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/08/04/features/story2.html The Totally Earnest Eater by Pat Gee
- ^ https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIvMEZips_QKqajfXGY_C5Q
- ^ a b c d e f g h i International Federation of Competitive Eating, Eater Profiles: Eric Booker. Copyright 2004. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 26, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^ a b Amy's Robot (blog) Robot-on-the-Spot: The World Cheesecake Eating Championship. http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/09/robotonthespot_the_world_chees.php
- ^ The Jewish Advocate; April 2005: by Nogg, Ozzie. Matzah ball-eating contest proves mother was right; Eric Booker cleans his plate, eats 21 matzah balls in five minutes. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5090/is_/ai_n18506795
- ^ https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/BadlandsBooker
- ^ https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/selden-man-goes-to-the-dogs-and-buns-1.2067973
- ^ https://majorleagueeating.com/eaters/14
- ^ a b "Badlands Booker". Spotify. November 6, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020.