After a one-year absence, Joey Chestnut is again and seeking to regain his crown when he competes within the 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest on Coney Island in New York Metropolis on Friday. Chestnut, who owns a plethora of aggressive consuming information, gained this contest 16 occasions over a 17-year span from 2007-23 earlier than being banned from final 12 months’s competitors due to a sponsorship deal he signed with Unattainable Meals, a competitor of Nathan’s.
Chestnut set the document for many scorching canines and buns consumed within the 2021 Nathan’s contest when he ate 76 in 10 minutes. The 41-year-old Kentuckian can be the world document holder after consuming 83 scorching canines and buns in a 1-on-1 showdown with Takeru Kobayashi final 12 months.
Now, Chestnut will probably be making an attempt to take again the Mustard Belt – and the $10,000 prize – that was captured final 12 months by Patrick Bertoletti, who consumed 58 scorching canines and buns. Different notable male opponents hoping to problem for the title are Geoffrey Esper, James Webb and Nick Wehry.
This 12 months, extra sportsbooks are offering the choice to wager on this famend scorching dog-eating competitors, together with Caesars Sportsbook and BetMGM.
On the ladies’s aspect, Miki Sudo will probably be vying for her fourth consecutive title and eleventh in 12 years. The 39-year-old New Yorker set the brand new ladies’s document within the Nathan’s contest final 12 months, when she devoured 51 scorching canines and buns. Her largest competitors seemingly will come from Michelle Lesco, who took the crown in Sudo’s absence because of her being pregnant in 2021.
Chestnut is a big -2000 favourite to win the 2025 Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest at DraftKings Sportsbook, whereas Bertoletti is +1200. SportsLine professional Matt Severance has revealed his evaluation, picks and predictions for this 12 months’s competitors.
Severance is a well-connected author and high-volume handicapper who has labored within the business since 2005. After becoming a member of SportsLine, he rapidly established himself as a prime professional in a number of sports activities.
A sporting staple of the July 4 vacation – when you take into account aggressive consuming a sport, which I don’t – is the Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest held exterior the unique Nathan’s location in Coney Island in New York. The ladies’s contest begins Friday at 11 a.m. ET and the boys’s nearer to 12:30 p.m. The boys’s and girls’s champions obtain $10,000 apiece.
What’s new this 12 months on the ESPN telecast is “cams” for prime opponents Miki Sudo on the ladies’s aspect and Joey Chestnut on the boys’s. In the course of the occasion, members should eat as many Nathan’s Well-known scorching canines in buns as they’ll inside a 10-minute interval. Water and different drinks are permitted to assist wash issues down. Condiments are allowed, however I can not recall a contestant ever utilizing one.
Chestnut’s return is the key story this 12 months, as he is the most important star within the sport and a 16-time champion of this occasion, together with consecutively from 2016-23. “Jaws” was banned from the 2024 contest after he signed a take care of Unattainable Meals that known as for him to endorse the corporate’s plant-based scorching canines.
Nathan’s understandably considered that as direct competitors to its all-beef product. Chestnut has since agreed to endorse solely Nathan’s scorching canines. The Joey Chestnut document of consuming 76 scorching canines was set in 2021, when the competition was relocated elsewhere within the New York space because of capability restrictions and different well being and security protocols following the Covid pandemic.
The chances that the document of 76 is damaged this 12 months are at +215, with No set at -275, and I like to recommend No. With Chestnut sidelined final 12 months, Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti gained the competitors with a personal-best mark of 58 scorching canines eaten.
There’s actually no level betting Chestnut at -2000 to win, so a greater resolution could be Bertoletti at +155 within the Winner With out Chestnut market. Bertoletti’s over/below is about at 51.5 scorching canines and he’s -160 head-to-head towards James Webb (+130), who ate 52 final 12 months.
Most books do not even supply odds on the ladies’s winner as a result of Sudo is the Joey Chestnut of that gender. Sudo holds the ladies’s world document of 51 scorching canines eaten final 12 months, when she gained the Nathan’s title for the tenth time.
Nevertheless, Sudo did not prime 42 scorching canines whereas successful the earlier two years, so I like Underneath 45.5 for her on Friday at -105. I might additionally advocate Nick Wehry at -165 head-to-head towards Sudo (+130), who occurs to be his spouse.