Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest (Official Thread)

[Jaxbuck]

f Dr. Smoliga’s prediction of 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes seems like a stretch, consider this: In Dr. Metz’s 2007 study, the speed eater had downed 36 hot dogs before the researchers terminated the simulated contest, worried that he might perforate his stomach. Thirteen years later, Mr. Chestnut ate more than two times as many hot dogs, which suggests that we probably won’t know the actual human limit until we reach it.

So it's kind of like the 4 minute mile or the 200 man gangbang.

First Roger Bannister, then Savannah and now Joey Chestnut joins that elite company.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Joey Chestnut is massive favorite to win Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog-Eating Contest

Joey Chestnut is relishing his chance at winning his 14th mustard belt and breaking his own record at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog-Eating Contest on Sunday.

Chestnut is way more than a foot-long favorite to win his sixth straight title. He opened as a -5,000 favorite over the field at DraftKings and was sitting at -3,000 on Saturday at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill in New Jersey. That means you'd need to risk $3,000 for a chance to win $100 on the man known as "Jaws."

Chestnut's overwhelming odds put him in impressive company. The U.S. women's national soccer team was a -5,000 favorite over Thailand in the 2019 World Cup. The U.S. won 13-0. The Kansas City Chiefs were -5,000 favorites over the New York Jets last season. Kansas City won 35-9.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/...han-famous-fourth-july-hot-dog-eating-contest

 

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Joey Chestnut eats world-record 76 hot dogs to win Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest

Chowdown champ Joey "Jaws" Chestnut broke his own record to gulp to a 14th win in the men's Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, while Michelle Lesco took the women's title.

Chestnut downed 76 franks and buns in 10 minutes. That's one more than he did in setting the men's record last year, when the contest unfolded indoors and without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/i...han-famous-fourth-july-hot-dog-eating-contest

 

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Joey Chestnut stopped in the middle of the hot dog eating contest to choke out a protester

Here’s something you don’t see every 4th.



A man dressed like Darth Vader rushed the stage at Chestnut’s 17th dog with a sign reading “EXPOSE SMITHFIELD DEATHSTAR,” which appears to be an animal rights issue in Utah. Regardless of the meaning behind the protest, it didn’t sit well with Chestnut, who didn’t know what was going on outside of a stranger bumping into him mid contest — so he choked Vader, before security dragged the man off the stage.

Joey went on to win easily by devouring 66 hot dogs and buns, but we will probably never ever see a mid-contest fight again, especially one involving the greatest eater of all time.

Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/2022/7/4/2...s-protestor-video-hot-dog-eating-contest-2022

 

[ScriptOhio]

Chestnut favored to win 8th straight Mustard Belt

Joey Chestnut is the overwhelming favorite to win his 16th Mustard Belt overall and eighth in row Tuesday at the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest.

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Joey Chestnut favored to win 8th straight Mustard Belt​

Joey Chestnut, the hot dog-and-bun-eating GOAT, is the overwhelming favorite to win his 16th Mustard Belt overall and eighth in row Tuesday at the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Caesars Sportsbook on Monday had Chestnut listed as a -3,000 odds-on favorite to down the most hot dogs and buns during the messiest 10 minutes in sports. Every other contestant is listed at +1,400 (14-1) or longer. The over/under on the number of hot dogs and buns eaten by Chestnut is 72.5 at some sportsbooks.

Chestnut is such a big favorite at a few sportsbooks that bettors must risk $4,000 on him to win a net $100. On Monday, DraftKings reported taking a $2,000 bet on Chestnut that would win a net $50 if he is victorious again. An upset, however, would cost the bettor the two grand.

 

[Jaxbuck]

At this point when I see this bumped I think Joey Chestnut choked to death/exploded or something

 

[JCOSU86]

"Competitive Eating" has to be the stupidest, most American thing in history. A fucking waste on so many goddamned levels. Oh, and "Joey Chestnut" sounds like another alias for Lane Kiffin.

 

[Jaxbuck]

"Competitive Eating" has to be the stupidest, most American thing in history. A fucking waste on so many goddamned levels. Oh, and "Joey Chestnut" sounds like another alias for Lane Kiffin.

I would have gone with “Joey Footlong” or something like that.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi announces retirement to focus on his health

Kobayashi won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest six times throughout his career

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Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi announces retirement to focus on his health​

Kobayashi won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest six times throughout his career​

Six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Takeru Kobayashi announced he is officially retiring from competitive eating in order to "live a healthy and long life." Kobayashi expressed his concerns about the damage that highly processed food has caused him in the Netflix film "Hack Your Health - The Secrets of Your Gut."

"For the past 20 years, I have been in this field," he said "I worry about the consequences of my decision, but most importantly, I want to repair my brain and gut."

One of the concerns the 46-year-old brought up is that he no longer has the same appetite or sense of smell he did in the past. Retiring from this career, he said, will allow him to hopefully reverse the effects that competitive eating had on his body.
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Just sayin': Is anyone surprised that competitive eating might have negative long term health issues?

 

[Bestbuck36]

Fucking idiots

 

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Patrick Bertoletti crowned new winner of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest after Joey Chestnut was barred

The 39-year-old from Illinois managed to wolf down an impressive 58 franks and buns in 10 minutes as the sun beat down on the iconic Nathan’s flagship restaurant for the annual July 4th competition…

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Patrick Bertoletti crowned new winner of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest after Joey Chestnut was barred​

The Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest crowned a new winner Thursday – with the annual July 4th competition newly invigorated by the absence of longtime champ Joey Chestnut amid a fight over vegan dogs.

Chicago’s Patrick Bertoletti, 39, took the Mustard Belt after wolfing down 58 franks and buns in a neck-and-neck, 10-minute race at Coney Island that saw the leader repeatedly bounce back and forth.
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Last year, Chestnut won the Coney Island competition by eating 62 dogs in 10 minutes.

 

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Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters

The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.

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Nick Wehry, husband of women’s Nathan’s hot dog contest winner Miki Sudo, accused of cheating to join ‘elite’ class of competitive eaters​

This is the wurst.

The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.

Nick Wehry — husband of women’s division champion Miki Sudo — is being accused of using sleight of hand trickery during the July Fourth contest in order to inflate his tally of eaten hot dogs and falsely place himself among the sport’s elite contenders, according to two sources closely involved in the competition.

Nick Wehry is accused of padding his hot-dog total from July 4’s Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Contest.Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com
“100% he cheated,” one source told The Post Tuesday.

On the day of the competition, Wehry’s score was a respectable 46.75 hot dogs when they called it out at Coney Island, good enough for a fourth-place finish, according to footage and reports, including by The Post and ESPN.

But that figure later jumped to 51.75 on the official Major League Eating (MLE) results website, allegedly giving him credit for five full wieners more than he was actually served during the competition, the sources said.

Eaters’ scores are tabulated based on the number of empty plates stacked in front of their spot after the allotted time has concluded.

Any “debris” left uneaten on the top plate on the stack — bits of bun or stray chunks of beef — is subject to judges’ determination about whether it’s deducted from their total.

Every plate on the competition table starts out loaded with five hot dogs, so each plate left behind counts for five dogs eaten as the judges determine the participants’ scores.

Wehry has been accused of “stealing plates” from another competitor’s stack and putting them on his own place setting to raise his score above 50 — which is considered the threshold separating everyday competitors from the sport’s true top dogs.

Although the alleged score inflation didn’t improve Wehry’s standing, it did bump him above that magic 50 figure.

“There’s a number of people who have eaten 40 hot dogs in this competition before, there’s a lot fewer who have eaten more than 50, and even fewer who have eaten over 60,” another source said.

“For someone to have on the record that they ate more than 50, makes you part of a very small elite club of competitive eaters.”

Patrick Bertoletti, this year’s champ, wolfed down 58 hot dogs and buns in the 10-minute gorge-fest, defeating 13 competitors for the title and taking home a prize of $10,000 as mustard-belt holder.

Second- and third-place finishers Geoff Esper and James Webb put away 53 and 52, and took home prizes of $5,000 and $2,500, respectively. Wehry, in fourth place, would have gotten $1,500 – while the fifth place winner got $1,000.

Sudo herself hoovered 51 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, setting a new world record for women during their competition before the mens’.

One source suggested that Wehry asked for a recount after the initial judge’s tallying took place, concerned his true total wouldn’t cut the mustard in the highly competitive field of contenders.

“I can only assume he demanded a recount after stealing the plate,” the source claimed.
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Just sayin':