Will Takeru Kobayashi win back his title?
In less than 10 hours, Japanese professional eater Takeru Kobayashi will take on American Joey Chestnut in an epic rematch:
Last year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest ended with Chestnut eating an amazing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes – a world record, while Kobayashi managed to eat 63. Kobayashi has vowed that he will make a comeback at this year’s contest, and the t-shirts being sold on his new online store display his confidence:
According to sports betting news site Gambling911.com, online gambling sites have given Kobayashi and Chestnut even odds at winning this year. However, other news sources cite Kobayashi’s continuing issues with a jaw injury as a sure sign that he will once again lose to Chestnut.
Update: Kobayashi lost!
The two were tied at 59 hot dogs a piece at the end of the regulation 10 minutes, forcing a sudden death overtime to determine which man could eat five more hotdogs in the shortest time.
Organizers said it was the first overtime in the contest’s history.
Chestnut won the overtime, marking his second consecutive victory over Kobayashi. Kobayashi won the contest six straight times but lost the title in an upset to Chestnut last year.
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Are there any live feeds of this food competition?
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No more terrible puns, PLEASE.
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I lol’d.
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but srsly. i wanna see this live.
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If you are in the states, it will probably be live on ESPN.
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Ah yes, everything wrong with our world. Competitions to see how much food we can gluttonously waste while hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger and malnutrition worldwide.
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if solving world hunger was as easy as not hosting a hotdog eatting contest dont you think everyone would have done that by now?
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Ending the competition is not a solution to world hunger in the least. However, 66 hot dogs would make 66 people very happy, for even a short period.
It’s sort of like hosting an event where people compete to heat empty banquet halls, while there are homeless people in Hokkaido and Northern China freezing to death under layers upon layers of dirty, old clothes.
It’s a pointless competition.
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This is a valid criticism though most people unfortunately don’t think in such terms. Our world has so many problems and among those food scarcity is a chief concern for hundreds of millions. It is easy to get wrapped up in stupid things like this (as I do on occasion), but Alex’s pov shouldn’t be regarded as simple cynicism. The problems of world hunger are real and being exacerbated as we type.
Perhaps Nathan’s should raise funds for world hunger along with hosting these events. Though maybe that is a bit more grotesque than holding these contests in the first place.
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66 hot dogs would make 66 people very happy for a short period, but they wouldn’t do squat to help with the malnutrition problem you referenced earlier.
We might as well open a Hostess factory and feed them Twinkies and Suzie-Qs instead.
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I dont think that food scarcity is the right word.
I’m not sure if you remember this, but there was a reasonably recent disaster in Myanmar ( I believe a cyclone), and the international community was lining up to help. But the ruling party was very slow to accept help from anyone, especially far off foriegners, and even then demanded that it control how the supplies were distributed. There were also rumors that they kept a number of the supplies and replaced them with inferior products to give to the disaster victims.
This is an example of the problem. That in places like Africa, you have rampant civil war where if you try to distribute food aid, you’ll be robbed by militias and war lords. Or in North Korea, where you have a ruler running his nation into the ground at the expense of his own citizens.
The hot dogs saved from not holding a eat off may have fed a few people, but on the large scale, wasting food isnt the issue.
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Come on. Last year’s event was obviously fixed to create some excitement and get eyeballs watching the event this year. If Kobayashi wins all the time there’s no drama. It IS FIXED or else he would have won.
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Chestnut wins in the first ever dog-off!
The contest was changed to 10 minutes from 12 minutes this year (Nathan’s cites a document they found that said way back when the contest was 10 minutes and blah blah blah I wasn’t really listening).
Chestnut and Kobayashi were tied at 59 each at the end of regulation forcing a five hot dog eat-off (first to eat the five is the winner) which Chestnut won.
59 might have been on pace for the world record. It was definitely the new 10 minute record.
In response to the question of if he’ll be back, Takeru said “Of course.”
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Booooooooo! Kobayashi was screwed! I demand a re-eat off!
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Well, as they proverbially say, he’s never been the same since his injury.
Poor K. He did great. Still amazing that he took Chestnut all the way.
The playoff was bogus.
They should have been made to eat the same amount the next day in the shortest amount of time.
Does anybody know if Chestnut turned around and threw it all up in the bathroom 10 minutes later? Do they check for those kinds of things, to see if they can hold it down?
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That would be much more enterteining, they should keep it inside like 24h.
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USA! USA! USA! USA!
CHESTNUT!!!!!!!!!!!! F*ck YEAH!
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