When to watch Joey Chestnut in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2025? Time, channel, odds
Chestnut is ready for his comeback in NY on the Fourth of July after a one-year ban following a contractual dispute with Nathan's Famous hot dogs. The indisputable GOAT of the hot dog eating world has won the contest 16 times.
Here's everything to know about today's epic showdown, from the men's and women's competition and how to tune in.
Joey Chestnut will compete at the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut announced his return in a series of posts on the social media platform X. In an interview with USA TODAY Sports, Chestnut, 41, said he was hoping to gobble up a new record.
'If I can get close to 80, that'd be amazing," he said.
The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is on Friday, July 4, 2025.
The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is held at Nathan's Famous' original restaurant at the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in Coney Island, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
The 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest begins at 10:45 a.m. for the women's contest and about noon for the men's contest. Chestnut and Miki Sudo, the women's champ in 2024, will be wearing "cams" during the contest.
Participants in the men's and women's competitions of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest have to eat as many hot dog in buns as they can within 10 minutes.
The 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest will air on ESPN, ESPN2 and on ESPN3 (online only). The women's contest will only air on ESPN3 while the men's contest will air on ESPN2.
You can stream the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on several platforms including DirecTV, Fubo, Hulu, Sling, YouTube TV and more.
The prize for the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is $40,000, split equally between the male and female divisions. Men's and women's first-place winners get $10,000 each, second-place finishers get $5,000 each, and third-place finishers get $2,500 apiece.
Major League Eating has managed the event since 1997, and entrants have to be under contract by MLE to participate. Here are some of the main rules:
Water and other beverages are permitted.
Condiments allowed (but contestants usually pass on them)
Partially eaten hot dogs count and hot dogs chewed at the end of regulation can qualify, as long as they're successfully swallowed.
Penalty cards may be issued for messy eating and regurgitation.
If there's a tie, sudden death eat-offs will take place.
BetMGM and DraftKings sportsbook are among those providing options to bet on the competition.
BetMGM has Joey Chestnut as the current favorite with an odds of -2500, followed by Patrick Bertoletti (+1600), Geoffrey Esper (+2200) and James Webb (+2500). BetMGM does not offer odds on the women's competition, but you can still wager on total hot dogs eaten by champ Miki Sudo.
DraftKings has Chestnut as the current favorite with an odds of -1800, followed by Bertoletti (+1000), then Webb (+2500) and Esper (+2500).
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut was banned from the 2024 contest after he signed an endorsement deal with Impossible Foods that called for him to endorse the company's plant-based hot dogs. Nathan's at the time said it had viewed it as direct competition to its all-beef product.
Chestnut has since agreed to endorse only Nathan's hot dogs as part of a three-year contract with Nathan's and International Federation of Competitive Eating, which runs the annual competition.
The world record for eating hot dogs is held by Joey Chestnut, which is 76 consumed in 10 minutes.
Joey Chestnut holds the world record of 76 hot dog links and buns. Chestnut has won 16 of the past 17 men's competitions.
Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti won the men's competition, which was without perennial champion Joey Chestnut. In the women's contest, Miki Sudo won her 10th title.
Patrick Bertoletti ate a personal best 58 hot dogs and buns during the 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, all within a 10-minute window of time. That was 18 shy of Chestnut's record.
At the 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, Miki Sudo ate 51 hot dogs and buns, winning her 10th title in the women's division.
Lori Comstock is a New Jersey-based journalist with the Mid-Atlantic Connect Team.
This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is today, July 4th. How to stream
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