Consuming celebrity Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain lengthen and devoured his technique to any other win at Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July sizzling canine consuming contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 mins.
Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the remainder of a global box of 15 aggressive eaters by means of double digits to clinch his sixteenth name. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts controlled to ingest 49 sizzling canines and buns.
Within the ladies’s contest, protecting champion Miki Sudo pressured down 39 1/2 sizzling canines and buns to gather her 9th Mustard Belt. However prior to the boys may just compete, stormy climate moved over New York Town’s Coney Island and not on time the contest for 2 hours.
“What a curler coaster, emotionally,” Chestnut stated after using out the rain and questioning whether or not the famed contest would move on in any respect. The 39-year-old from Westfield, Indiana first competed for the Nathan’s name in 2005 and hasn’t misplaced it since 2015.
His highest end was once in 2021 when he tallied 76 sizzling canines, however Tuesday’s climate disruption made a repeat unimaginable.
“Everyone were given tousled,” Chestnut stated.
Sudo beat Mayoi Ebihara’s 33 1/2 sizzling canines in 10 mins in a ladies’s match that gave the look to be a lot nearer till the overall depend was once introduced. The unofficial real-time counter confirmed the 2 leaders tied all through a lot of the contest. A last depend of plates settled the rating.
Sudo, 37, was once dissatisfied in her profitable general, which was once 9 sizzling canines wanting her all-time top. She stated pageant from the 27-year-old Ebihara had thrown her off.
“The primary couple mins, I discovered myself observing her, which I by no means wish to do. I by no means wish to be distracted by means of the opposite competition,” Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, stated after the contest. “Gazing her, I fumbled my palms. I were given caught with a large burp early on however was once in a position to right kind.”
The yearly contest on New York Town’s Coney Island drew competition from England, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia, in step with ESPN.