2025 Hotdog eating competition: Joey Chestnut makes triumphant return while he gets his title back comfortably

Joey Chestnut emphatically returned to the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest of July 4, and comfortably won his record 17th title on Friday.

After being introduced by the legendary George Shea, the 41-year-old from Westfield, Indiana managed to consume a hot dog of 70.5 in 10 minutes.

Chestnut was forbidden to compete last year Due to a contract dispute with a deal that he closed with a competitive brand, the vegetable meat company is impossible for food.

He still works with impossible foods, but revealed in the run -up to the event that ‘clarifications’ were made to his respective contracts.

Joey Chestnut made a winning return to the annual July 4 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

The 41-year-old, from Westfield, Indiana, managed to consume a hot dog of 70.5 in 10 minutes

Earlier on Friday, title defender Miki Sudo won the women’s competition and her 11th title, with 33 dogs and sandwiches. Last year she consumed a record 51 dogs.

‘I feel that I am leaving the fans a bit. I heard people in the crowd and said, “Go for 52” Sudo told ESPN afterwards.

‘It is clear that I always set my goals high, but the hot dogs were not collaborated. For some reason, the sandwiches felt bigger today. ‘

The annual gastronomic battle, which dates from 1972, is held for the original Nathan’s famous restaurant on Coney Island in New York and attracts large crowds of fans, many who wear foamhoths.

Chestnut set the world record of eating 76 Wiensers and sandwiches in 10 minutes on July 4, 2021.

He has now won a record 17 mustard tires. Instead of appearing in New York last year, at Chestnut 57 dogs – in just five minutes – in an exhibition with soldiers, in El Paso, Texas.