A brand new winner has been crowned in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
After devouring 58 hot canines and buns in 10 minutes at New York City’s Coney Island on Thursday, July 4, competitive eater Patrick Bertoletti emerged victorious at the annual eating extravaganza. The 26-year-old, who hails from Chicago, remaining participated in the yearly tournament in 2022, chowing down on not up to 35 hot canine at the time.
Thursday’s victory saw Bertoletti breaking his private report of 55 hot canine and buns. (On the ladies’s aspect, Miki Sudo received her 10th title after eating 51 hots canines and buns.)
This year, the boys’s festival was once with out aggressive eating’s largest celebrity, Joey Chestnut.
Chestnut, 40, was once barred from competing after signing an endorsement deal with Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company.
Last 12 months, Chestnut — a 16-time Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion — received the contest by eating 62 hot canine and buns. He set the world record within the event in 2021 when he guzzled Seventy six dogs and buns.
“We are devastated to be informed that Joey Chestnut has chosen to constitute a rival emblem that sells plant-based hot canine rather than competing within the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest,” Major League Eating (MLE) introduced in a June Eleven observation.
MLE stated they went to “nice lengths” to make something paintings, but in the end admitted “it kind of feels that Joey and his managers have prioritized a brand new partnership with a distinct hot dog emblem over our long-time courting.”
Chestnut responded on social media, pronouncing MLE was once looking to “change the rules” about being affiliated with other meals manufacturers.
“This is apparently the basis on which I’m being banned,” he wrote by means of Instagram June 11, “and it doesn’t have an effect on the July 4th contest.”
Chestnut known as the decision to bar him from the contest “very disappointing” and that the ruling “will deprive the good enthusiasts of the vacation’s usual joy and entertainment.”
“I like competing in that match,” Chestnut continued. “I love celebrating America with my lovers all over the place this great nation at the 4th and I've been coaching to protect my title.”
Instead, Chestnut is taking his skills to Texas’ Fort Bliss on the 4th of July, where he's competing in a 5-minute eating contest against 4 infantrymen. The four-on-one challenge is available to circulate on Chestnut’s YouTube page at Five p.m. ET.
Chestnut will even go head-to-head with longtime rival Takeru Kobayashi in a reside eating contest on Netflix over Labor Day weekend.
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The particular, called Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, will “determine without equal hot-dog-eating champion — in which the competition will fight to eat probably the most all-beef hot canines.”
“Through all of my years in competitive eating, Kobayashi stands out as my fiercest rival,” Chestnut stated in a observation. “Competing towards him pushed me to be so much higher. I know that fans have waited a long time for any other chapter of our competition and I can’t look forward to our large showdown continue to exist Netflix! It’s time to offer the folks what they want!”
Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef airs September 2 on Netflix.
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