Joey Chestnut didn’t compete in Coney Island on Thursday however stored his July 4 custom of successful a sizzling canine consuming contest alive.
Chestnut beat a bunch of 4 Military troopers in a contest at Fort Bliss Military base in El Paso, Texas, by consuming 57 sizzling canine in 5 minutes. The troopers ate a mixed 49 sizzling canine. The group would have gained in the event that they ate extra sizzling canine mixed than Chestnut.
“Scorching canine on the 4th of July in entrance of people who find themselves celebrating America, it doesn’t get any higher than this,” Chestnut stated, sporting his winner’s belt.
Chestnut, 40, gained 16 of the final 17 Nathan’s Well-known Worldwide Scorching Canine Consuming Contests in Brooklyn, N.Y., and deliberate to take part once more this 12 months earlier than Main League Consuming (MLE) banned him for partnering with Inconceivable Meals, a plant-based rival model. He realized he was barred three weeks in the past, a choice that shocked the aggressive consuming world and Chestnut’s followers.
Chestnut ate 62 sizzling canine in 10 minutes final 12 months to seize his sixteenth Mustard Belt and beforehand set the world report of 76 sizzling canine and buns eaten in 10 minutes in 2021.
After MLE’s choice, organizers at Fort Bliss contacted Chestnut about collaborating in a sizzling canine consuming contest on July 4. Chestnut, whose grandfather served in Pearl Harbor in World Battle II, his father served within the Vietnam Battle and his brothers are navy members, accepted the supply.
Thursday’s contest at Fort Bliss didn’t have the glitz and glamour of a giant stage in the course of Coney Island and an ESPN movie crew, however the modest crowd who got here to see Chestnut tackle the troopers impressed him.
Chestnut stated he slowed his tempo through the sizzling canine consuming contest however picked it again up after the gang stored cheering him on.
The competition at Fort Bliss was streamed on Chestnut’s YouTube channel and included a Q&A with fan questions.
The competition additionally raised cash for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that helps navy households. After Chestnut’s victory, Inconceivable Meals CEO Peter McGuinness introduced Operation Homefront with a $106,000 test.
The Fort Bliss contest got here almost 5 hours after the Nathan’s contest, the place Miki Sudo ate a girls’s world-record 51 franks to assert her tenth pink belt and Patrick Bertoletti gained the boys’s contest by downing 58 sizzling canine.
Followers who missed seeing Chestnut on the nationwide broadcast in Coney Island on Thursday can watch him compete on Labor Day in a winner-take-all sizzling canine consuming contest in opposition to rival Takeru Kobayashi on Netflix.
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