Who inspired you to be a competitive eater?

Who inspired you to be a competitive eater?

Ian "The Invader" Hickman (Competitive Eater) gives expert video advice on: Who inspired you to be a competitive eater?; When did you start developing your competitive eating skills?; Did you have any support in your quest to become a competitive eater?

Whenever I started competitive eating, there was always the people I looked up to. Whenever I took notice to it there was Cookie Jarvis. There was Badlands Booker. There was Don Irman, Crazy Kevin Lipchitz as a competitive eating. Some of these guys that you don't hear to much of now, but at the time I saw Badlands Booker as having a great personality. Fun, easy-going guy that could eat a lot. I always wanted to, instead of playing the bad guy role that some of these guys try to do, I wanted to be like him. Be like the nice guy that had his life and also ate too. Thats why I've always tried to keep as my place in competitive eating.