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Oxford's Geoffrey Esper takes fourth on the Fourth at Nathan's hot dog contest; Chestnut wins again
Geoffrey Esper, the fast-eating teacher from Oxford, placed fourth in Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July Fourth at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. As expected, the title went to Joey Chestnut, his 17th at the holiday event. Esper's total of 44 hot dogs in 10 minutes was impressive, but not enough to outdo Chestnut's buffet of 70.5 dogs. Once again, Esper wore a worn Boston Red Sox cap during the competition. Esper, 50, has strong ties to Central Mass. He is a teacher at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Clark University. Esper has a handful of second-place finishes at the holiday event. He placed second a year ago, when Chestnut was sidelined and Patrick Bertoletti emerged with the crown. He placed second to Chestnut the three prior years. This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Oxford's Geoffrey Esper takes fourth on the Fourth at Nathan's hot dog contest
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19 hours ago
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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest crowns Miki Sudo 2025 women's champion
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating champion Joey Chestnut's belt before the Lugnuts game against the TinCaps on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, at Jackson Field in Lansing. The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, a fiercely competitive Fourth of July staple for over 50 years — and the world's premier competition for competitive eaters — has crowned a women's champion: Miki Sudo. During what is commonly known as the "10 minutes of glory" on Coney Island, Miki Sudo ate an impressive 33 hot dogs, securing her 11th championship. This amount, however, fell short of the record she set last year, when she won her 10th title in 2024 by consuming 51 hot dogs. In addition to being crowned the hot dog eating champion, Sudo will receive $10,000 from a total prize purse of $40,000. Advertisement Here are the top moments from the women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest: More: Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest live: Time, TV, odds for Joey Chestnut return Miki Sudo wins 11th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest title Miki Sudo claimed her 11th title by eating 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes on Friday. This performance fell short of last year's record, where she consumed 51 hot dogs. Women's hot dog eating contest participants Miki Sudo Michelle Lesco Domenica Dee Tandra Childress Katie Prettyman Larell Marie Mele Isabeau Prettyman Jocelyn Young Kelly Lewis Camille O'Brien Elizabeth Salgado Cherish Brown Madison Barone Laura Beitler This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest crowns 2025 women's champion
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a day ago
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One swallower to make Coney Island's summer as hotdog champion returns
A rerun of Jaws will be the blockbuster attraction in Coney Island this Fourth of July holiday, but not the classic Steven Spielberg movie enjoying a new lease of life on the 50th anniversary of its release. The jaws here belong to Joey Chestnut, the undisputed all-time champion of hotdog consumption, and a leviathan in the world of competitive eating that has grown as a sporting spectacle to the point where it is a regular fixture on ESPN. Advertisement Enthusiasts of the annual Nathan's Fourth of July hotdog eating contest will recall that Chestnut, whose nickname is Jaws, was controversially booted from the 2024 iteration of the event he had dominated for the best part of two decades for signing a deal to promote a rival brand of plant-based wieners. Related: 'Gutted': champion eater Joey Chestnut excluded from New York hotdog-eating contest It was, as the event's impresario, George Shea, declared at the time with trademark grandeur, the equivalent of Michael Jordan telling Nike – purveyors of his lucrative Air Jordan line of sneakers – that he wanted to rep for Adidas too. Now, to the relief of many, Jaws is returning to the fold after serving a year's suspension. Advertisement On Friday, the world record holder, with 83 dogs and buns scoffed in a single 10-minute period in an unrelated Netflix special in September 2024, will be the star attraction once again in pursuit of his 17th mustard belt. 'I'm thrilled to be returning,' Chestnut, 41, said in a post to X. 'This event means the world to me. It's a cherished tradition, a celebration of American culture, and a huge part of my life.' Referring to the controversy that caused his exclusion, he was circumspect. 'While I have and continue to partner with a variety of companies, including some in the plant-based space, those relationships were never a conflict with my love for hotdogs. To be clear: Nathan's is the only hotdog company I've ever worked with,' he wrote. Advertisement The straw-hatted Shea, mastermind of an event that draws tens of thousands to New York every year, and a television audience estimated to have grown to 2 million since the first contest in 1972, welcomed the return of the king. 'Last year we got as big a crowd as ever, more media than ever, and we had a fantastic contest that was actually more competitive because Joey has been so dominant,' he told the Guardian. 'That said, there's definitely more excitement now he's back. We and everybody, fans included, are very excited and looking forward to the Fourth, and his entrance into the arena will be triumphant and explosive.' Shea, whose colourful and bombastic introductions of the competitors are as much a part of the spectacle as the mouth-stuffing element that follows, said he had been working for weeks on how he will proclaim Chestnut's homecoming. Advertisement 'It's not his nickname that makes him who he is, it's his performance that has defined him, and I believe that's been very significantly elevated by the introductions that I do of him as a larger-than-life figure,' said Shea, a New York-based public relations executive who says working the Fourth of July event is his 'annual treat to myself'. 'I try to create a mix that includes straight and grand introductions that describe what these people are doing on the eating circuit, with a mix of funny, absurd and poetic, and then epic when you get to Joey.' Shea admits it will be hard to top his 2015 introduction, a fire and brimstone speech that somewhat melodramatically hailed Chestnut as an almost otherworldly being: 'A comet blazes to herald his arrival, and his victory shall be transcribed into every language known to history, including Klingon,' he pronounced. 'The bratwurst, and pierogi, and Hooters chicken wing eating champion of the world, eight-time Nathan's Famous hotdog eating champion of the world, the No 1 eater in the world, I give you America itself, Joey Chestnut.' Advertisement The expectation for Friday, at least in betting circles, is that Chestnut will come storming back to recapture his crown from last year's winner, Patrick 'Deep Dish' Bertoletti, and a strong field of Major League Eating characters, perhaps even by topping his own event record, set in 2021, of 76 hotdogs. But the real winner, Shea said, was the sport of competitive eating itself. 'We've been talking, there was a lot of back-and-forth, and people had different perspectives, different opinions, different everything, but everybody wanted this to happen. We stayed at it, and we finally came together,' he said. 'What happened was unfortunate, it was disappointing not to have Joey there, but in the big picture it further elevated the contest, and you know, we're very conscious of that all the time.'
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a day ago
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When to watch Joey Chestnut in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2025? Time, channel, odds
Joey Chestnut is hoping to regain top dog status today, July 4 when he returns to Coney Island for the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. 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
