Julia StumbaughSeptember 3, 2024
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6 days after setting a brand-new world record by consuming 83 hotdogs in buns in 10 minutes, Joey Chestnut is set to make his NFL halftime program launching with yet another consuming competitors.
Chestnut will be contending in a 5v1 “Oktoberfest bratwurst consuming difficulty” throughout the Cincinnati Bengals’ Sunday season opener versus the New England Patriots, the group revealed on Tuesday.
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Chestnut set his newest world record on Labor Day in a Netflix livestream occasion that pitted him versus long time competing Takeru Kobayashi.
“I’m starving for whatever’s next,” Chestnut stated after winning the competitors.
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The Bengals halftime program, which will pit 5 other rivals versus Chestnut, will not be the very first time the world record holder has actually dealt with unequal numbers in an eating competitors.
Chestnut dealt with a group of 4 soldiers in a Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest at the Fort Bliss army base in El Paso, Texas. The soldiers consumed a combined 49 pets in 5 minutes, while Chestnut won by taking in 57 before time was up.
This likewise is not the very first time Chestnut has actually gotten in a bratwurst-based competitors. In 2021 Chestnut won his 10th bratwurst-eating title at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati by consuming 68 brats in 10 minutes.
Chestnut holds 55 world records throughout various consuming classifications, according to Major League Eating. In addition to hotdogs he has actually set records for consuming eggs, asparagus, gyros, pulled pork sliders, tamales, grilled cheeses, pastrami, entire turkeys and more.
Chestnut’s restriction from his signature occasion, the yearly Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest held at Coney Island on the Fourth of July, has actually not stopped the 16-time champ from taking the world phase.
Now he will remain in front of nationwide audiences as soon as again when he takes the field midway through the Bengals’ season opener.