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The fable of Joey Chestnut continues.
Chestnut is now an 18-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating title champion aft blowing retired nan title erstwhile again, this clip by downing 66 basking dogs and buns successful Coney Island.
It is now nan 10th consecutive clip Chestnut has won nan competition; he was barred from nan 2024 arena owed to sponsorship issues.
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Joey Chestnut wins nan Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest eating 70.5 basking dogs astatine Coney Island connected July 4, 2025 successful New York City. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)
Chestnut did not tally distant pinch it early on, arsenic he was cervix and cervix pinch 2024 champ Patrick Bertoletti and James Webb done nan first 90 seconds.
But erstwhile that clip passed, Chestnut began to agelong distant from nan competition. Through 3 minutes, Chestnut was astatine 28, while Webb was astatine 22, and Bertoletti astatine 21. But astatine nan halfway mark, Chestnut had eaten 42 basking dogs and had a 10-wiener lead.
Joey Chestnut prepares to compete successful nan men's title astatine Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest connected July 4, 2025 successful New York City. Joey Chestnut makes his return to nan Nathan's Famous 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest to compete for a 17th triumph aft missing nan 2024 arena owed to a sponsorship conflict pinch Major League Eating. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
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Chestnut remained astatine grounds gait (76) pinch 4 minutes to go, but for illustration each eating contests, fatigue and afloat stomachs group successful to spell on pinch near-triple-digit heat. Chestnut deed nan 60 people pinch 60 seconds to go, and officials counted his 66 afterward.
He admitted he knew he would not get nan grounds early connected but stayed calm to return location nan victory.
Chestnut competed successful nan arena while serving a 180-day probation sentence aft pleading blameworthy to a misdemeanor artillery complaint stemming from drunkenly slapping a man successful an Indiana barroom earlier this year. He was granted support to recreation to New York for nan event.
Joey Chestnut wins nan men's title astatine Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest successful New York City connected July 4, 2025. He returned to compete for a 17th triumph aft missing nan 2024 arena owed to a sponsorship conflict pinch Major League Eating. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)
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Miki Sudo won nan women's arena earlier successful nan time pinch 39 dogs and buns; she has won each of nan 12 contests she has competed in, pinch her first measurement backmost successful 2014.
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