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Joey Chestnut announced connected Monday helium volition instrumentality to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest adjacent period pursuing his lack from the lawsuit successful 2024.
Chestnut, who holds the competition's grounds for astir blistery dogs eaten with 76 successful 2021, wrote connected societal media that helium and the organizers of the contention recovered communal crushed connected his sponsorships. Chestnut’s partnership with Impossible Foods caused an contented for Nathan’s Famous past year, and it kept the champion retired of the competition.
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Joey Chestnut, victor of the 2021 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest, poses for photos successful Coney Island's Maimonides Park connected July 4, 2021 successful the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
Come July 4, helium volition beryllium backmost successful Coney Island.
"I’m thrilled to beryllium returning to the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. This lawsuit means the satellite to me. It’s a cherished tradition, a solemnisation of American culture, and a immense portion of my life," Chestnut wrote connected X.
"While I person and proceed to spouse with a assortment of companies, including immoderate successful the plant-based space, those relationships were ne'er a struggle with my emotion for blistery dogs. To beryllium clear: Nathan’s is the lone blistery canine institution I’ve ever worked with.
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Competitive eater Joey Chestnut poses with his mustard yellowish title loop during a crippled betwixt the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ball State Cardinals astatine Sanford Stadium connected Sept. 9, 2023 successful Athens, Georgia. (Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images)
"I respect that determination were differences successful interpretation, but I’m grateful we’ve been capable to find communal ground. I’m excited to beryllium backmost connected the Coney Island stage, doing what I unrecorded to do, and celebrating the Fourth of July with blistery dogs successful my hands! Stay hungry!"
Last year, Chestnut ate 83 blistery dogs successful a Netflix peculiar lawsuit dubbed "Unfinished Beef" arsenic helium went up against competitive-eating rival Takeru Kobayashi.
It was the astir blistery dogs ever eaten successful the past of competitory eating without being dunked successful water.
Joey Chestnut cheers aft finishing successful archetypal spot successful the 2023 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest connected July 4, 2023 astatine Coney Island successful the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Chestnut won aft eating 62 blistery dogs. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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Patrick Bertoletti won the contention past twelvemonth with 58 blistery dogs eaten successful 10 minutes.
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