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Joey Chestnut breaks satellite record, eats 83 blistery dogs successful 10 minutes (0:35)
Joey Chestnut breaks his ain satellite grounds and eats 83 blistery dogs successful 10 minutes successful a one-on-one contention vs. Takeru Kobayashi. (0:35)
Doug GreenbergJul 3, 2025, 01:07 PM ET
After missing the 2024 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest implicit a sponsorship dispute, blistery canine king Joey Chestnut is backmost successful the contention for 2025 and is an tremendous -1600 favourite to seizure his record-extending 17th yellowish belt. Last year's champion during Chestnut's hiatus, Patrick Bertoletti, is the lone men's rival anyplace adjacent astatine +1200, according to ESPN BET odds.
On the women's side, Miki Sudo, victor of the past 3 contests, is an adjacent larger -2500 favourite to triumph her record-extending 11th pinkish belt. Domenica Dee and 2021 champion Michelle Lesco amusement the second-best likelihood astatine +1600.
Despite their highly abbreviated odds, Chestnut and Sudo are precise fashionable plays crossed the sportsbook marketplace, but those large minus prices dictate that they are not large hazards for the books; Bertoletti, improbable arsenic helium is to win, comes successful arsenic BetMGM's largest liability.
Thus, bettors are looking to find worth elsewhere, specified arsenic with full blistery dogs and buns (HDB) eaten and different specialty props.
ESPN BET lists Chestnut's over-under astatine 71.5 -- higher than the 62 HDB helium consumed successful 2023, but little than the grounds 76 HDB helium downed successful 2021. Sentiment among the betting nationalist connected the marketplace differs greatly from publication to book, with ESPN BET reporting 69.9% of grip backing the over, BetMGM reporting 86% of wealth connected the under, and DraftKings reporting a precise flimsy vantage for the over.
Books besides person markets for Winner Without Chestnut and Sudo. For the men, Bertoletti (-115) is the public's wide preference, but Geoffery Esper (+300) is attracting immoderate attraction successful his ain right. FanDuel is besides listing a Chestnut vs. The Field market, wherever 80% of the wagers are connected The Field (+720) but 87% of grip is connected Chestnut (-1800).
No substance which broadside they're on, bettors volition relish the accidental to ticker eaters down dogs erstwhile the prima shines connected the signifier connected Coney Island.
"With Joey Chestnut making his instrumentality this year, we expect excitement -- and betting involvement -- to beryllium high," DraftKings sportsbook manager Johnny Avello told ESPN implicit email, noting it won't comparison to large sports events' handles. "It's a instrumentality favourite that brings a antithetic benignant of excitement to the holiday."
