Joey Chestnut Takes Down Protestor During Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

 

NEW YORK — Frankfurter-chomping phenom Joey "Jaws" Chestnut ate his direction to a fifteenth success Monday at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July wiener eating challenge, shutting down 63 sausages and buns at the yearly presentation of overabundance.

In a conclusive showdown rebound, ladies' record-holder Miki Sudo brought down 40 wieners and buns to come out on top for the ladies' championship subsequent to skirting last year's straight-to-the-point fest in light of the fact that she was pregnant.

Monday likewise denoted the challenge's re-visitation of its customary area outside Nathan's lead shop in Brooklyn's Coney Island area. The occasion was moved to 2020 and last year due to the Covid pandemic

"Being back here" before a crowd of onlookers, Chestnut told ESPN after his accomplishment, which the 38-year-old oversaw while wearing a careful boot in view of a leg injury is wonderful."

Last year, the Westfield, Indiana, inhabitant bested his own record by consuming 76 franks and buns.

Sudo, of Tampa, Florida, set the ladies' standard at 48 1/2 weiners and buns in 2020, preceding going home for the year while anticipating. She and Nick Wehry — an individual cutthroat eater whom she met through Nathan's challenge in 2018 — invited child Max on July 8, 2021.

From the father's arms, the child watched his kid mother indent her eighth Nathan's success. She told ESPN thereafter that she trusted he would some time or another remove a message from it.

Sudo then took over nurturing obligations while Wehry went after the men's title.

Related to the exhibition, Nathan's gives 100,000 franks to the Food Bank for New York City.