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It’s gonna be a real dog fight.
Only one man has beaten Joey Chestnut in the last 17 years of the July 4th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating competition – and he says his latest competitor, and former arch nemesis, can do it to.
Matt Stonie beat Chestnut 62 franks to 60 in the 2015 edition of the sausage fest – the jewel in the crown of the pro eating circuit.
Although the reigning champion, Chestnut, 40, will skip this year’s Nathan’s contest in order to take on his old rival, Japanese power eater Takeru Kobayashi – who has been off the US eating circuit in recent years.
In order for Kobayashi, 46, to triumph, Stonie says he will have to be focused and train hard – but also, surprisingly, rest.
“Joey is the most dominant competitive eater of any era. I put a lot of effort into it and it took five years from when I started to when I beat him.”
The “turning point” in his training the year prior to winning was working out less and dieting more, he detailed.
Instead of maintaining a ludicrous exercise regime, he would focus on water intake and “letting my body rest instead of just beating it up.”
Leading up to the 2015 competition, Stonie said he’d cook up 50-65 hot dogs, set a 10-minute timer, put on some music, and try to finish them all.
He’d then “basically just veg out” for two to three days before doing it all over again, “that’s the time it takes to recover,” he said.
“A lot of training boils down to just getting familiar with the food and practicing. One thing seems a little counter intuitive, I was actually exercising less and letting my body rest instead of just beating it up.”
Competitive eating legend Kobayashi was the July 4 winner, hoisting the ‘Mustard Belt’ for six straight years from 2001 to 2006.
He then lost to Chestnut in a sudden death contest after the pair tied in 2008 and lost again in 2009.
By that time he had a medical complaint in his jaw – common among competitive eaters, who have to rigorously train their mouths, but appears to have used it to his advantage.
However, he made a comeback at a surprise unofficial parallel appearance at another location in New York in 2011, where he scarfed 69 dogs – more than Joey’s 62 which won the official competition on Coney Island.
Stonie added: “He was going around saying like a problem with his jaw and then he showed up to and was better than ever. So it’s a little curious to me … maybe he was trying to sandbag a little bit. I know competitors, you know, guilty of doing stuff like that.”
Although Kobayashi has earned his status as a legend, on May 21 he announced his retirement from professional eating, quipping he just wasn’t hungry anymore and wanted to “repair my brain and gut.”
However, that appears to have been a bluff since less than a month later it was announced he will take part in the Labor Day special “Chestnut Vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef”.
Stonie, who is roughly 130 lb and 5 ‘8, is out of the hot dog game and now best known as a YouTube influencer.
He regularly takes on wild food challenges, such as eating a 100-layer lasagna or polishing off 20,000 calories in one sitting, which have earned him over three billion views in total.
Still, he calls the win against Chestnut one of “the most unforgettable moments of his career.”
