TEMPLE, Texas — A champion has reclaimed his crown.
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut scarfed down a victory against longtime competitor Takeru Kobayashi in a hot dog eating competition on Netflix on Labor Day, according to Sports Illustrated.
Chestnut, a 16-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, ate a staggering 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the contest, setting a new world record in the process, while Kobayashi set a new personal best with 66.
The event, dubbed Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: "Unfinished Beef", had been advertised for months leading up to its Netflix debut, according to Sports Illustrated.
Kobayashi had reportedly announced before the competition that it would be his last performance before retiring.
The competition ran similar to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest, with Chestnut and Kobayashi having 10 minutes to eat as many hot dogs and buns as they could. There were some key differences however, Sports Illustrated said, namely that the two eaters were not allowed to dunk the hot dogs in water and had to eat them in the buns.
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Chestnut and Kobayashi had not gone head-to-head against one another in 15 years, according to Sport Illustrated, last facing off at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2009, where Chestnut took home the title by downing 68 hot dogs to Kobayashi's 64 1/2.
Kobayashi won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating crown six years in a row from 2001 to 2006, according to Sports Illustrated, before Chestnut took the title in an upset in 2007, his first of 16 wins at the contest.
Chestnut did not compete in the Nathan's competition in 2024 after being banned by Major League Eating for signing a deal with plant-based food company Impossible Foods.
Bleacher Report stated that Chestnut earned $100,000 for the victory.
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