How to watch Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

Joey Chesnut,aka "Jaws," completed off a report 76 sizzling canines in 10 minutes eventually 12 months's contest, the place the 38-year-old took residence his 14th "Mustard Belt" title within the Independence Day custom.
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Aggressive consuming is again in Brooklyn for the Fourth of July — as champ Joey Chestnut seeks to complete off the sphere at Nathan’s Well-known Scorching Canine Consuming Contest.

Chestnut, higher referred to as “Jaws,” completed off a report 76 sizzling canines in 10 minutes eventually 12 months’s relocated contest in Maimonides Park stadium, taking residence his 14th “Mustard Belt” title.

Protection of the Independence Day custom kicks off at 10:45 a.m. Monday on ESPN3 and ESPNews with the ladies’s competitors — as hundreds are anticipated to return to the competition’s authentic location on the nook of Surf and Stillwell Avenues and relish the eaters scarfing down the canines.

ESPN’s John Anderson will deal with play-by-play protection for each occasions, with evaluation from Main League Consuming’s Richard Shea.

Michelle Lesco, left, and Joey Chestnut pose with their private greatest information at a weigh-in on Friday.

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The 38-year-old Chestnut, referred to as the undisputed champ of the occasion, will look to defend his 14 titles on crutches, as he heals from a ruptured tendon. The lads’s occasion is slated to start at midday.

“It’s all proper,” he stated Friday. “I’ll have the ability to get up and eat. I’m excited … I’m not consuming with my leg.”

In the meantime, final 12 months’s girls’s champ, Michelle Lesco, 38, is searching for to defend her crown after successful her first title in 2021 — when she put away 30.75 sizzling canines and buns in 10 minutes.

Nevertheless, the world’s No. 1 ranked feminine aggressive eater, Miki Sudo, is returning this 12 months after lacking final 12 months’s competitors as a result of she was pregnant. Sudo’s private greatest is a powerful 48 sizzling canines.

“I’m so excited to be again,” Sudo, who received seven straight titles from 2014 to 2021, stated Friday.

Climate can also be speculated to cooperate at one in every of New York’s signature occasions – with partly cloudy skies within the higher 70s as Chestnut and Lesco search to defend their titles.