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David Purdum
Joey Chestnut, aggressive consuming legend, introduced Monday that he’s returning to the Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest after a one-year hiatus from the annual Fourth of July occasion.
Chestnut, the 16-time champion, missed final 12 months’s occasion resulting from a dispute with Main League Consuming over his sponsorship take care of Unattainable Meals, an organization that makes plant-based sizzling canines.
“I am thrilled to be returning to the Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest,” Chestnut wrote on X. “This occasion means the world to me. It is a cherished custom, a celebration of American tradition, and an enormous a part of my life.”
I am thrilled to be returning to the Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest. This occasion means the world to me. It is a cherished custom, a celebration of American tradition, and an enormous a part of my life. (1/3)
— Joey Chestnut (@joeyjaws) June 16, 2025
Chestnut added that he continues to accomplice with corporations within the “plant-based area,” however these relationships by no means conflicted together with his “love for decent canines.”
“I am excited to be again on the Coney Island stage, doing what I dwell to do, and celebrating the Fourth of July with sizzling canines in my fingers!” he wrote. “Keep hungry!”
Main League Consuming president Richard Shea informed ESPN in an e-mail that the competition is “extraordinarily excited to welcome Joey again to Coney Island this 4th of July for what is going to certainly be the best Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest of all time.”
Patrick Bertoletti downed 58 sizzling canines and buns in 10 minutes to win final 12 months’s males’s contest, whereas Miki Sudo ate 51 sizzling canines and buns to seize the ladies’s title. Chestnut owns the competition document with 76 sizzling canines and buns in 2021.
This 12 months’s occasion will happen July 4 at Coney Island in New York and be broadcast on ESPN platforms.