Consuming famous person Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and wolfed his method to one other win at Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes.
Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the remainder of a world subject of 15 aggressive eaters by double digits to clinch his sixteenth title. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts managed to ingest 49 scorching canines and buns.
Within the girls’s contest, defending champion Miki Sudo compelled down 39 1/2 scorching canines and buns to gather her ninth Mustard Belt. However earlier than the lads may compete, stormy climate moved over New York Metropolis’s Coney Island and delayed the competitors for 2 hours.
“What a curler coaster, emotionally,” Chestnut mentioned after driving out the rain and questioning whether or not the famed contest would go on in any respect. The 39-year-old from Westfield, Indiana first competed for the Nathan’s title in 2005 and hasn’t misplaced it since 2015.
His greatest end was in 2021 when he tallied 76 scorching canines, however Tuesday’s climate disruption made a repeat not possible.
“Everyone received tousled,” Chestnut mentioned.
Sudo beat Mayoi Ebihara’s 33 1/2 scorching canines in 10 minutes in a girls’s occasion that seemed to be a lot nearer till the ultimate depend was introduced. The unofficial real-time counter confirmed the 2 leaders tied all through a lot of the competitors. A remaining depend of plates settled the rating.
Sudo, 37, was upset in her profitable complete, which was 9 scorching canines in need of her all-time excessive. She mentioned competitors from the 27-year-old Ebihara had thrown her off.
“The primary couple minutes, I discovered myself watching her, which I by no means wish to do. I by no means wish to be distracted by the opposite rivals,” Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, mentioned after the competitors. “Watching her, I fumbled my arms. I received caught with a giant burp early on however was in a position to right.”
The annual contest on New York Metropolis’s Coney Island drew rivals from England, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia, in accordance with ESPN.