Nothing just like the human drama of athletic-ish competitors. A profession rivalry was revived at this time as Netflix hosted a reside hot-dog-eating contest pitting two of the pseudo-sport’s legends — and the consequence was a world file.
Joey Chestnut completed off Takeru Kobayashi within the streamer’s Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, choking down a record-smashing 83 scorching canine and buns to Kobayashi’s 66 throughout the 10-minute chowdown. The earlier mark was 76.
Chestnut pocketed the $100,000 prize within the first time the 2 longtime adversaries had squared off in opposition to one another in 15 years.
“I’ve been attempting to hit 80 scorching canine for years, and with out Kobayashi I used to be by no means capable of do it,’’ Chestnut mentioned the feast feat. “He drives me. We weren’t at all times good to one another, however I like the best way we push one another to be our greatest.”
Netflix announced the competition in June, a day after Chestnut was banned from the Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Scorching Canine Consuming Contest that he lengthy had dominated. That occurred as a result of he took a sponsorship with plant-based Inconceivable Meals, which turned the stomachs of brass at Main League Consuming, which runs the Nathan’s present.
Chestnut had gained the coveted Mustard Belt — handed out to the one that eats essentially the most scorching canine every July 4 on ESPN — for eight years working and in 16 of the previous 17. He was out-grubbed solely as soon as, in 2015, when Matt Stonie took the title.
Chestnut makes an estimated $250,000 to $500,000 per yr in aggressive consuming challenges and through sponsorship offers. He additionally has his personal line of condiments for decent canine, brats, sausages, wings and sandwiches.
Right here’s the trailer for Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef:
