Afrigather World Champion Joey Chestnut throughout the weigh-in ceremony forward of the 2023 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Scorching Canine Consuming Contest in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, on July 3, 2023.
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Netflix is getting ready for a showdown on Labor Day. The corporate introduced Wednesday that it’s going to dwell stream a sizzling canine consuming competitors with rival champions Joey “Jaws” Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi in an occasion titled “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef.”
World file holder for consuming 76 sizzling canines in 10 minutes and 16-time Nathan’s Well-known Scorching Canine Consuming Contest champion Chestnut will face off his “fiercest rival,” six-time winner Kobayashi, for the primary time since Chestnut beat Kobayashi again in 2009, the corporate stated in a press launch.
“I do know that followers have waited a very long time for one more chapter of our rivalry, and I can not look forward to our large showdown dwell on Netflix! It is time to give the folks what they need!” Chestnut stated within the press launch.
Kobayashi had recently revealed in a Netflix documentary that he was retiring from aggressive consuming over well being issues.
“Retiring for me will solely occur after I take him down one final time,” stated Kobayashi. “This rivalry has been brewing for a very long time. Competing in opposition to Joey dwell on Netflix means followers all around the world can watch me knock him out.”
Chestnut just lately made headlines after getting disqualified from this yr’s annual Fourth of July sizzling canine consuming contest hosted by Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island, over what Main League Consuming stated was his choice to accomplice with Not possible Meals’ plant-based sizzling canine as an alternative.
That is the most recent installment in Netflix’s foray into dwell sports activities programming. The leisure big has been leaning into what it calls “sports activities leisure” with a roughly $5 billion 10-year deal to stream World Wrestling Leisure’s weekly flagship program Uncooked beginning in 2025 and the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing matchup in November that’s making waves as Tyson’s first matchup in 19 years.
The corporate can also be set to dwell stream Christmas Day National Football League games for the following three years.
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