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Gracious in defeat, five-time champ Bill "El Wingador" Simmons congratulates the new king, Takeru Kobayashi, in the locker room following SportsRadio 94 WIP's Wing Bowl XX Friday at Wells Fargo Center. (Ryan Petzar / Philly.com)
It’s almost impossible to imagine what it must feel like to have a belly full of 337 wings (“It feels really heavy,” Kobayashi says) but to imagine another 100 on top of that is truly unfathomable.
It wasn't a total cakewalk for Takeru Kobayashi, but in the end, he set a new Wing Bowl record, eating 337 wings at the Wells Fargo Center Friday morning.
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