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Longtime rivals Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi will square off in a hot dog eating contest for the first time in 15 years at a September event that Netflix announced just one day after Chestnut was deemed ineligible to compete in this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Billed almost like a boxing match, “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef” will stream live on Netflix on Sept. 2.
Chestnut said that he did not have a contract with the league or with Nathan’s and claimed they were “looking to change the rules from past years as it relates to other partners I can work with.” Chestnut’s exclusion from the Nathan’s contest has been hard for the world of competitive eating to swallow. He had dominated the famous hot dog eating contest since 2007, when he beat Kobayashi by eating 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
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