Netflix is benefiting from some excessive drama within the sizzling dog-eating world with its subsequent live-streaming occasion. A few days in the past, Joey Chestnut was banned from Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Content material over his obvious partnership with a plant-based model, as just about each main information website on this planet inexplicably reported.
Cue Netflix, which leaped in with its personal frank-eating occasion known as Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, set to be live-streamed on Monday, September 2. It options two of the best-known (only-known, for most individuals) sizzling dot-eating personalities within the type of Chestnut (40) and Takeru Kobayashi (46), with the latter popping out of semi-retirement for the event.
“By all of my years in aggressive consuming, Kobayashi stands out as my fiercest rival,” Chestnut stated in a Netflix press launch. “Retiring for me will solely occur after I take him down one final time,” added Kobayashi.
A rivalry simmering for 15 years.
CHESTNUT VS. KOBAYASHI: UNFINISHED BEEF — the final word sizzling canine consuming competitors — will air LIVE on Netflix, Monday, September 2. pic.twitter.com/MeVQP1lQuS
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Chestnut (40) gained 16 of the final 17 Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contests (held by the Main League Consuming group) and holds the all-time report with 76 sizzling canines and buns eaten set in 2021. Kobayashi (46), in the meantime, is called “the daddy of aggressive consuming” and gained the Nathan’s occasion six consecutive instances. At one level, he was additionally banned from that occasion (for non vegan-hot-dog causes).
The New York Submit reported that Chestnut partnered with Not possible Meals, which manufactures the plant-based “Beef” sizzling canine. That was apparently anathema to Nathan’s, which makes what it calls “one hundred pc beef sizzling canines” (that the nonprofit Environmental Working Group considers not very wholesome).
“We’re devastated to study that Joey Chestnut has chosen to symbolize a rival model that sells plant-based sizzling canines fairly than competing within the 2024 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest,” Nathan’s informed CBS in a press release. “It appears that evidently Joey and his managers have prioritized a brand new partnership with a special sizzling canine model over our long-time relationship.”
By internet hosting its personal occasion, although, Netflix is taking the meat out of Nathan’s annual July 4th contest — Sherlocking it Apple type, if you’ll. Earlier Netflix stay occasions embrace The Roast of Tom Brady, and following the Chestnut vs. Kobayashi affair, Netflix will stream the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson battle on November 15, 2024.
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