Joey Chestnut: 5 Things About Record-Breaking Hot Dog Eater, Competing In The Nathan’s Contest

Who is Joey “Jaws” Chestnut? He’s the astir celebrated blistery canine eater successful the world! The 39-year-old is simply a 15-time victor of Nathan’s celebrated Fourth of July blistery dog-eating contest, held astatine Maimonides Park connected Coney Island connected the Fourth of July each year. The competitory eater has won the rubric a whopping 15 times, and helium holds the grounds for having eaten 76 blistery dogs successful 10 minutes (a feat helium accomplished successful 2021). Joey is preparing to effort to triumph his 16th rubric astatine the 2023 contention connected Tuesday, July 4.

Joey Chestnut has won the rubric 15 times. (SARAH YENESEL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Ahead of the 2023 competition, Joey won the archetypal ever Qdoba Burrito Eating contention successful April, erstwhile helium ate 14.5 burritos successful 10 minutes. After taking location his triumph successful 2022, helium besides broke records for astir Raising Cane’s chickenhearted fingers successful 5 minutes (44) successful July 2022 and by eating 32 servings of 24oz popcorn successful 8 minutes successful August.

Chestnut conscionable obliterated him🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dry7Oy8KZK

— jonah artifact (@JonahBlock05) July 4, 2022

Joey besides had a fig of obstacles to overcome: helium suffered a compound fracture of his close limb requiring 2 surgeries and astir 2 weeks successful infirmary backmost successful December 2021. Beyond that, helium besides injured a tendon successful a close leg, and arrived successful NY successful a cast. In May, helium tested affirmative for COVID-19, forcing him to driblet retired of a doughnut eating competition. During the 2022 competition, a protester dressed similar Darth Vader attempted to interrupt the contention with a sign, jumping implicit the barricade. Joey rapidly enactment the protester successful a chokehold earlier information could region the man. As if each of that wasn’t a upland to wade through, helium mislaid his parent successful June 2022, which helium told media done tears. “This is caller crushed for me, having to woody with this,’’ helium said during a pre-competition interview. “[My mom] wouldn’t privation maine to miss the contest…It’s decidedly going to beryllium a person contention than it was past year,’’ helium added.

Joey is genuinely unmatched erstwhile it comes to blistery dog-eating contests. Surprisingly the lawsuit inactive took spot this twelvemonth amid the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic portion galore different related ones were canceled oregon pushed backmost to a aboriginal date.

Joey has won countless

Joey won his precise archetypal Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest successful 2007, defeating champion Takeru Kobayashi. He won each twelvemonth until helium was beaten by Matt Stonie successful 2015. Since that 1 shocking nonaccomplishment to Matt, Joey has yet to beryllium beaten again successful the yearly blistery canine eating contention connected July 4. Joey has go the look of eating contests.

And the ̶w̶e̶i̶n̶e̶r̶ victor is… Joey Chestnut! 🌭

He takes the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog-Eating Contest for the 14th time, eating a world-record 76 blistery dogs!!! 🤯

Chestnut -3335 💵pic.twitter.com/yMke4JOWLw

— TwinSpires Sportsbook 💵 (@TS_Sportsbook) July 4, 2021

He has nary plans to reitre

“I cognize yet I volition springiness it up for 1 crushed oregon another,” Joey told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “Either if I person a household eventually. If I privation to unrecorded a much mean beingness and can’t question arsenic overmuch oregon if ever my wellness changes oregon if I person a wellness contented that would beryllium a reason. But I would love… I mean these past 3 years I person been trying to devour healthier and moving much and I anticipation I tin proceed that inclination truthful I could prolong this arsenic agelong arsenic I tin due to the fact that I person had a mean occupation and I person had to reply to bosses and person had nasty emails and checked schedules and changed orders and I mean I could spell backmost to each of that!”

He’s unfastened to his kids pursuing successful his footsteps

When asked whether oregon not he’ll bid his kids successful competitory eating, Joey told HollywoodLife: “I don’t cognize astir grooming them but I would archer them to bash immoderate makes them blessed and I chose a grade I wanted to bash and a institution I wanted to enactment for and it made maine blessed and past it grew into thing I would person ne'er imagined truthful I deliberation bash immoderate makes you happy. Always effort caller things and ne'er adjacent immoderate doors.”

He erstwhile projected to an ex astatine a competition

Right earlier winning the Nathan’s 2014 Hot Dog Eating Contest, Joey projected to his longtime girlfriend. Sadly, they divided successful aboriginal 2015.

He doesn’t conscionable devour blistery dogs

Joey is simply a nonrecreational eater. He’s competed successful eating contests of grilled food sandwiches, waffles, burgers, wings, pizza, macaroni and cheese, bratwursts and more. What a life!

Click to Subscribe to Get Our Free HollywoodLife Daily Newsletter to get the hottest celeb news.