2025 Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest Odds: Will Joey Chestnut Dominate?

Joey Chestnut is about to return to Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest, one of the vital celebrated Fourth of July traditions in sports activities, after being barred from competing in 2024. 

What can we anticipate from the recent dog-eating star?

Waiting for the 2025 Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest, let’s try the percentages at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 23.

2025 Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest

Joey Chestnut Over 71.5 or extra complete sizzling canine: -105 (wager $10 to win $19.52 complete)
Joey Chestnut Beneath 71.5 or extra complete sizzling canine: -125 (wager $10 to win $18 complete)

The opposite 5 opponents listed (Geoffrey Esper, James Webb, Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, and Patrick Bertoletti) all have Over/Beneath totals ranging between 44.5 and 49.5— drastically decrease than Chestnut. 

He has been a dominant pressure within the contest over the previous 15 years, successful 16 out of 17 contests from 2007 to 2023. Nevertheless, he confronted a setback in 2024 when he was banned for accepting a sponsorship take care of Inconceivable Meals, a competitor of Nathan’s.

Final yr, throughout a particular five-minute sizzling dog-eating contest at Fort Bliss, he out ate 4 U.S. Military troopers, consuming 57 sizzling canine whereas they totaled a mixed 49.

“I’m excited to be again on the Coney Island stage,” Chestnut wrote in an Instagram put up, “doing what I reside to do, and celebrating the Fourth of July with sizzling canine in my palms!”

With odds at -105 to eat 71.5 or extra sizzling canine, sportsbooks see Chestnut because the clear-cut favourite to dominate the competition.

In a current occasion, he confronted off towards Takeru Kobayashi in a live-streamed sizzling dog-eating competitors for Netflix on Labor Day 2024.

Since his debut in 2007, Chestnut and Kobayashi have established a rivalry, with Chestnut securing his first victory over him in his very first contest. He turned the all-time winningest eater on the Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest in 2013, defeating Kobayashi 83-66.

Chestnut had a powerful streak, successful the occasion eight consecutive years from 2007 to 2014. After dropping in 2015, he secured a win in eight straight competitions.

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