Sonya Thomas is a tiny, tiny woman.  She’s probably 5 feet tall and 105 pounds, on a good day.  However, if you see this spritely-looking woman heading towards your all-you-can-eat buffet, lock the doors, pull the shades, and hope against hope that she doesn’t see you inside, because she’ll eat you out of house and home.  Sonya Thomas, AKA The Black Widow, is one of the best competetive eaters in the world, and she proved her mettle again during the National Buffalo Wing Festival on Sunday in Buffalo, New York, beating all comers at the game of eating chicken wings.

Just how much did she eat?  She downed 4.86 pounds of buffalo wings, or about 181 wings total.  She bested Coney Island hot-dog eating champion Joey Chestnutt’s total of 169 wings pretty handily.  To top off her day, she also entered the Ridiculously Hot Buffalo Wing Eating Contest, and downed another 20 on top of the 181 she’d already eaten less than an hour before.  That’s 200 wings in a single day!

How’d she best the great Jaws Chestnutt?  “They pushed each other really hard,” said National Buffalo Wing Festival founder Drew Cerza.  “Joey is so strong.  He’s got great jaw strength.  But Sonya’s so fast with the hand.”

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