Joey Chestnut dominates in Hot Dog Eating Contest return

The goat of meals is again.

Joey Chestnut returned to the Nathan’s scorching canine recreation on Friday after he was not eligible final 12 months, and he was again as if he by no means left.

With 70.5 scorching canine and sandwiches, Chestnut defeated his seventeenth title in his final 18 occasions (he misplaced to Matt Stonie in 2015).

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Joey Chestnut is getting ready to take part within the males’s competitors on the annual Hotdog recreation match of Nathan on July 4, 2025 in New York Metropolis. Joey Chestnut returns to the well-known July 4 -Hotdog -eet match of the Nathan to compete for a seventeenth victory after lacking the 2024 occasion on account of a sponsor battle with Main League consuming. (Adam Grey/Getty pictures)

Chestnut defeated 30 canine within the first three minutes, properly earlier than his competitors, and he by no means appeared again. He was good at tempo to destroy his file of 76 canine and sandwiches within the 10 -minute interval, which made 46 within the first half of the competitors.

He began to decelerate and solely put down 11 within the subsequent two minutes, however he had virtually already received the victory. For reference he ate 58 Hotdogs, the successful track final 12 months, within the first seven and a half minutes. Now it was a pursuit for the file.

Fatigue went in and he shoots at his file at 5. Nevertheless it was one of the best efficiency within the occasion since he returned the file in 2021. It’s the seventh time that Kastanje has cracked the 70 Mark.

This was the twentieth look of Chestnut within the occasion, the place the file of all time was certain.

Final 12 months’s champion, Patrick Betoletti, ended with 46.5 canine and sandwiches.

Chestnut was not eligible to take part in final 12 months’s occasion after he signed a take care of Unattainable Meals, a rival of Nathan.

However final month, Chestnut introduced that he and the organizers had discovered a standard land on sponsorship.

File – Joey Chestnut, winner of the well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Scorching Canine -Eting Contest from 2021 Nathan, poses for images within the Maimonides Park of Coney Island, July 4, 2021, in New York’s Brooklyn Borough. (AP Picture/Brittainy Newman, File)

“I’m very pleased to return to the well-known scorching canine consuming competitors of the Nathan of the fourth July. This occasion means the world for me. It’s a cherished custom, a celebration of American tradition and a big a part of my life,” Chestnut wrote on X.

“Though I’ve and continued to collaborate with completely different corporations, together with some within the vegetable area, these relationships had been by no means a battle with my love for decent canine. To be clear: Nathan is the one scorching canine firm I’ve ever labored with.

“I respect that there have been variations in interpretation, however I’m grateful that we had been capable of finding a standard foundation. I’m excited to be again on the rostrum of Coney Island, to do what I dwell and to have fun the fourth July with scorching canine in my palms! Keep hungry!”

Joey Chestnut visits “The Claman Countdown” with host Liz Claman in Fox Enterprise Community Studios on July 2, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Roy Rochlin/Getty pictures)

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Chestnut was clearly the overwhelming favourite to win all the things set a popcorn-eating world file in Might.

Fox Information’ Scott Thompson has contributed to this report.

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