Forget the Olympics! Forget Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul! Forget Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump! The biggest battle of the year is between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.
On September 2nd, the two competitive eaters will go mouth-to-mouth to determine who is the true hot dog eating champ live on Netflix in Chestnut vs Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.
This is the first time they have competed together in 15 years.
World Record-Holder for eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, Joey Chestnut has been dominating the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest for the past eight years. A six-time Nathan’s Hot Dog champion, Takeru Kobayashi is no stranger to professional eating. He brought fame to the sport in 2001 when he won his first Hot Dog Eating Championship by eating double the amount of hot dogs the previous record holder ate, and continued to hold that title for many years. While rumors swirled about his retirement, Kobayashi is here to stay.
This all came about because Nathan disqualified Chestnut for promoting another company’s vegetarian wieners. Nathan’s loss is our gain because this is even better than the annual July 4th ritual.
