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Who is Joey “Jaws” Chestnut? He’s essentially the most well-known sizzling canine eater on the earth! The 40-year-old is a 16-time winner of Nathan’s well-known Fourth of July sizzling dog-eating contest, held at Maimonides Park on Coney Island on the Fourth of July annually. The aggressive eater has received the title a whopping 15 instances, and he holds the file for having eaten 76 sizzling canines in 10 minutes (a feat he achieved in 2021).
Nonetheless, the well-known competitor was banned from competing on the 2024 contest as a consequence of a deal he made with Inconceivable Meals. Joey took him his sixteenth title in the course of the 2023 competitors. Whereas he fell wanting his private finest, he nonetheless managed to return out on high by consuming 62 sizzling canines in 10 minutes.
Forward of the 2023 competitors, Joey received the primary ever Qdoba Burrito Consuming contest in April, when he ate 14.5 burritos in 10 minutes. After taking house his victory in 2022, he additionally broke information for many Elevating Cane’s hen fingers in 5 minutes (44) in July 2022 and by consuming 32 servings of 24oz popcorn in eight minutes in August.
Chestnut simply obliterated him🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dry7Oy8KZK
— jonah block (@JonahBlock05) July 4, 2022
Joey additionally had quite a lot of obstacles to beat: he suffered a compound fracture of his proper leg requiring two surgical procedures and practically two weeks in hospital again in December 2021. Past that, he additionally injured a tendon in a proper leg, and arrived in NY in a forged. In Could, he examined constructive for COVID-19, forcing him to drop out of a doughnut consuming competitors. Throughout the 2022 competitors, a protester dressed like Darth Vader tried to interrupt the competitors with an indication, leaping over the barricade. Joey shortly put the protester in a chokehold earlier than safety might take away the person. As if all of that wasn’t a mountain to wade by, he misplaced his mom in June 2022, which he advised media by tears. “That is new floor for me, having to take care of this,’’ he mentioned throughout a pre-competition interview. “[My mom] wouldn’t need me to overlook the competition…It’s undoubtedly going to be a more in-depth contest than it was final 12 months,’’ he added.
Joey is actually unmatched in terms of sizzling dog-eating contests. Study all about him, right here.
Joey has received numerous competitions
Joey received his very first Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest in 2007, defeating champion Takeru Kobayashi. He received yearly till he was crushed by Matt Stonie in 2015. Since that one surprising loss to Matt, Joey has but to be crushed once more within the annual sizzling canine consuming contest on July 4. Joey has change into the face of consuming contests.
And the ̶w̶e̶i̶n̶e̶r̶ winner is… Joey Chestnut! 🌭
He takes the Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Sizzling Canine-Consuming Contest for the 14th time, consuming a world-record 76 sizzling canines!!! 🤯
Chestnut -3335 💵pic.twitter.com/yMke4JOWLw
— TwinSpires Sportsbook 💵 (@TS_Sportsbook) July 4, 2021
He has no plans to reitre
“I do know ultimately I’ll give it up for one purpose or one other,” Joey advised HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “Both if I’ve a household ultimately. If I need to dwell a extra regular life and might’t journey as a lot or if ever my well being adjustments or if I’ve a well being situation that will be a purpose. However I’d love… I imply these previous three years I’ve been attempting to eat more healthy and working extra and I hope I can proceed that development so I might extend this so long as I can as a result of I’ve had a standard job and I’ve needed to reply to bosses and have had nasty emails and checked schedules and adjusted orders and I imply I might return to all of that!”
He’s open to his children following in his footsteps
When requested whether or not or not he’ll prepare his children in aggressive consuming, Joey advised HollywoodLife: “I don’t learn about coaching them however I’d inform them to do no matter makes them completely satisfied and I selected a level I needed to do and an organization I needed to work for and it made me completely satisfied after which it grew into one thing I’d have by no means imagined so I feel do no matter makes you content. All the time strive new issues and by no means shut any doorways.”
He as soon as proposed to an ex at a contest
Proper earlier than profitable the Nathan’s 2014 Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest, Joey proposed to his longtime girlfriend. Sadly, they break up in early 2015.
He doesn’t simply eat sizzling canines
Joey is knowledgeable eater. He’s competed in consuming contests of grilled cheese sandwiches, waffles, burgers, wings, pizza, macaroni and cheese, bratwursts and extra. What a life!