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Competitive eating powerhouses convened in front of City Hall today to be weighed in for tomorrow's Nathan's Famous July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest. Six-time winner and current mustard belt holder Takeru Kobayashi weighed in at 154 pounds while Joey Chestnut, who broke Kobayashi's hot-dog eating record by keeping down 59.5 hot dogs at an Arizona event last month, weighed in at 215 pounds.
Kobayashi had signaled his all-important jaw muscles weren't feeling that great, thanks to wisdom tooth surgery, but he announced he was competing in this week's event, to honor the memory of his late mother. However, it seems like Chestnut will have a fighting chance to bring the mustard belt back to America - the last American competitor to win was Steve Keiner, in 1999. Besides, the mustard belt, there's $20,000 in total prize money.
The Post printed odds on Sunday: Kobayashi, even; Chestnut, 4-5; Timothy "Eater X" Janus (a New Yorker), 20-1; and "Crazy Legs" Conti (another New Yorker), 20-1. And if you want to see the event live and in person, head to Coney Island early! There's a show that accompanies the event at 11AM, and the actual 12-minute eating contest starts at 12:40PM. ESPN broadcasts the event between 12PM and 1PM.
And, like last year, we'll be liveblogging the event, as Tien Mao attempts to eat as many hot dogs as his stomach can handle during the 12 minutes.
Photographs of Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnutt getting weighed in and squaring off during today's weigh-in by Louis Lanzano/AP
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Still the dumbest sport in history ! A bunch of grown men stuffing themselves full of food to prove who can eat the most ! Their are kids in Africa starving to death and these assholes are battling for "Fat-Gut" Bragging rights . So stupid ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
you forgot about the war, darfur, terrorism, bubonic and locust plagues, and that 9 year old kid trying to get a body transplant for the burlap sack of leaves currently attached to his neck.
Yeah they should send some nutritious hot dogs to Africa damnit.
I want Kobayashi to win. Poor lil dude.
Wow, Kobe looks like a shadow of his ripped former self. I think he's cycling off the HgH and steroids.
And "Still Not Amused", STFU you dumb wanker.
Go back to where you came from Aristocrat.
You forgot the sleeper BLAck widow will take this!
It's going to be Joey Chestnut followed by Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti. Watch out for Deep Dish!
Stupid and gross.
"Aristocrat" Do me a favor & "Wet Ur finger, Stick it up UR ass, & say thank you" ! You being an "Aristocrat" I gather U'll catch my drift here . Posted by; "Still Not Amused"