Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef

Matt Roush says...

Grab your Pepto and watch it all go down — and hopefully not come back up — when Netflix presents its latest live event, a competitive-eating showdown between world-record holder Joey Chestnut (76 hot dogs in 10 minutes) and his groundbreaking predecessor, Takeru Kobayashi. (Chestnut, you may recall, was barred from the annual July 4 Nathan’s competition in Coney Island after endorsing a vegan rival.) Rob Riggle and Nikki Garcia host the event from the HyperX Arena in Las Vegas at the Luxor, with Cari Champion and Chris Rose calling the match, in which the champs square off for 10 minutes, eating as many hot dogs with buns as possible. In case of a tiebreaker, they’ll keep going for a three-minute overtime — and if a second overtime is needed, whoever swallows five more hot dogs and buns first will be declared the winner. There’s even an undercard, with competitive eater Matt Stonie taking on three Olympians (swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy and water polo Bronze Medalist Max Irving) in a chicken-wing showdown, and competitive eater Leah Shutkever attempts a Guinness World Record in eating the most watermelon ever in a three-minute span. Pardon me while I fast.

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