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We Have A Weiner In Netflix’s Joey Chestnut vs. Kobayashi Hot Dog Eating Contest


A career rivalry was revived today as Netflix hosted 'Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef' a live hot-dog-eating contest pitting two of the sport's legends.

A career rivalry was revived today as Netflix hosted a live hot-dog-eating contest pitting two of the pseudo-sport’s legends — and the result was a world record. Netflix announced the competition in June, a day after Chestnut was banned from the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest that he long had dominated. Chestnut had won the coveted Mustard Belt — handed out to the person who eats the most hot dogs each July 4 on ESPN — for eight years running and in 16 of the past 17.

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